TRANSFORMATION OF FEELINGS:
- The following are examples of feeling opposites. Feel free to add your own. If a set of paired opposites doesn’t resonate with your experience, write in how you experience the opposite of the feeling you are working with.
- Locate a paired set of feelings and move back and forth between each opposite. Begin by experiencing the more positive feeling, before proceeding to its opposite.
- Allow each feeling to be your embodied experience before going to its opposite.
- For instance, feel areas of the body where there are sensations of weight, mass, or density.
- Allow these sensations to increase.
- Then find sensations of lightness in the body and allow these sensations to increase.
- Go back and forth several times between the opposites.
- Then hold both opposites simultaneously. (Note that we do not merge opposites. We hold opposites at the same time without trying to merge, fix, or change them.)
- Then proceed to experience a new pair of opposites such as warm and cool.
Source: iRest
Applicable Opposites:
- Alert – Sleepy
- At-Ease – Uneasy
- Calm – Nervous
- Dull – Sharp
- Faint – Strong
- Hard – Soft
- Heavy – Light
- Lethargic – Alert
- Loose – Tight
- Painful – Pleasurable
- Relaxed – Tense
- Stable – Unstable
- Tense – Relaxed
- Weak – Strong
- Overwhelmed – Underwhelmed
- Confident – Unsure
- Proactive – Reactive
- Engaged – Unengaged
- Well – Sick