Thoughts

It's interesting how my blogging and journaling habits fluctuate.

Seems like I haven't been journaling very much these days, and when I do it seems more difficult to describe my feelings and emotions. Why are they shut off? Are they shut off?

Do you think that there is a place to tune off emotions?

I do. It's a well known defense mechanism. And there is a reason behind it being there. Perhaps to help someone function from a day to day...I know I definitely use it at times. A lot of the time...

What is the pay off then? (That's what my cognitive behaviourist teacher would always ask.)

The pay off is that I do not feel the searing pain/ intensity in which I can feel my emotions. That it allows me to take life lightly sometimes and to let things go. And that it doesn't always have to be a matter of life or death.