[Shinzen] his most important teaching was almost accidental: complete disregard for the personal story. someone comes to him with deep sadness and starts telling their story and he just looks at them and says yeah, sounds like a feeling in your chest, just deconstruct that. no interest in the narrative, or even particularly that it's sadness. modern therapy wants you to go deeper into your stories, everyone has their favorite ten tools for trauma healing and I thought I’d seen them all, until I came across “oh a feeling, whatever”. shinzen taught that your stories are contractions within something much larger, a process much more beautiful than a single life that you can learn with practice to directly experience every moment of the day. – Nick Cammarata

More here: [Nick Cammarata : If I find some stuck energy in my body that doesn’t want to talk (eg sadness) to me or work through it I’ll go inside and try to reconstruct a center next to it and empty myself out of as much as I can (desire to fix etc) and ask if it’s okay with me feeling what it does, than I just sit with it and the energy flows into me and I’ll let it pass without clenching and usually this dissolves the energy quickly without having to do any ifs kind of thing Link](https://www.pawel.world/If-I-find-some-stuck-energy-in-my-body-that-doesn-t-want-to-talk-eg-sadness-to-me-or-work-through--2d17d72d0640802dbd27fa6ba7cf4842)