Fear of feeling

Emotions are fundamental in everybody’s life—they help us evaluate situations and make decisions, they tell us how to organize our choices and adjust our behavior. So we can imagine emotions as flight instruments that indicate the speed rate, the fuel level and the altitude at which we are flying. Nevertheless, sometimes we prove to be bad pilot—because we  ignore our emotions, we go off course.

This book describes the many ways we devise to distort and deceive our emotions, and shows the negative consequences that this entails. Drawing on strategies from sensorimotor psychotherapy and from mindfulness techniques, the book presents practical exercises aimed at mastering body sensations and emotions that will help the reader to gradually overcome their fears.

Emotions are analyzed through techniques that don’t depend on conscious thinking, but are grounded in innate and spontaneous emotional and bodily processes. Even the most intense emotions can be gradually faced and can eventually be accepted without fear. Don’t let fear rule your life—you can make it, it is worth it!