Coaching practices for When a Big Feeling Crashes Over Me It's Like I Become it I Either Get Completely Swept Off and Do Something I Regret or I Clamp Down and Shove it Away and I Want to Learn How to Just Let it Move Through Me and Crest and Pass Without Either Drowning in it or Running From it
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- When a big feeling crashes over me it’s like I become it
- I’m flooded with something big and shapeless and I can’t even say what it is
- When a wave of anger or panic hits, it feels like it’ll swallow me whole if I don’t do something right now
- The second a hard feeling shows up I clamp down on it and shove it away, but it just keeps coming back louder
- The moment a hard feeling rises I clamp down against it and brace, trying to push it away
Practices that may help
- Mindfulness of the current emotion
Observe the emotion as a wave passing through — without judging it, feeding it, or running from it.
DBT Emotion Regulation Skills, Made Practical - RAIN — Recognize what is happening
Pause and name the emotion or experience present right now, without editing it.
Radical Acceptance, Made Practical - Riding the emotion wave with anicca awareness
When a strong emotion hits, track it through its full arc — notice it peak and fall without fleeing or amplifying.
Anicca: Working Practically with Impermanence - RAIN — Allow the experience to be here
Let the feeling exist as it is for a moment, without pushing it away or feeding it.
Radical Acceptance, Made Practical - Expand into difficult feelings rather than contracting away
When discomfort arrives, consciously make room for it rather than tightening against it.
Psychological Flexibility, Made Practical - Recognize aware presence within strong emotion
When a strong emotion arises, shift to noticing the awareness in which the emotion appears rather than being swept by it.
Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical - Stay with sensation without flooding (titrate)
Build the capacity to feel a sensation in tolerable doses instead of numbing or being swept away.
Interoception, Explained - Mindful awareness of suffering
Hold painful feelings in balanced awareness — neither suppressing them nor being swept away by them.
Self-Compassion, Made Practical - Relax and release stuck energy
When emotion grips, consciously relax and let the energy move through instead of clamping down.
The Untethered Soul, In Practice - A — Allow the experience to be as it is
Let what is present be here, without pushing it away, numbing it, or elaborating it.
RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice
Related concerns
- Non Resistance To Emotions
Let what is present be here, without pushing it away, numbing it, or elaborating it.
A — Allow the experience to be as it is
- How To Cope With Overwhelm Emotions And Be Okay
Observe the emotion as a wave passing through — without judging it, feeding it, or running from it.
Mindfulness of the current emotion
- Permission To Feel Emotions
Drop the judgment about whether you should or shouldn’t feel a certain way — the emotion is already there.
Give yourself permission to feel
- When Open Monitoring Meditation Open Presence In Emotion
When a difficult emotion arises during open monitoring, stay in the witnessing position rather than contracting or escaping.
Meeting emotion in open presence
- When Psychological Flexibility Expand And Breathe
When discomfort arrives, consciously make room for it rather than tightening against it.
Expand into difficult feelings rather than contracting away
- When RAIN Meditation Allow
Let what is present be here, without pushing it away, numbing it, or elaborating it.
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