![]() Who Can Benefit from this Unique Feeling Wheel Pillow? This is why the Emotion Sensation Feeling Wheel pillow has been so popular it’s by far my best-selling product. Often, people who missed that emotional “mirroring” process while growing up move through life experiencing a full emotional range within their physical body, but are unable to name, express, or seek comfort for and connection in these emotions.Įmerging brain research is clear: integrating emotion ( feelings) with cognition ( thinking) and body-based experiences ( sensations) promotes resiliency, window of tolerance expansion, and recovery for people struggling with mental illness. However, not all were given the care we needed to develop an emotional vocabulary to describe our feelings. Someone in our lives helped us identify and name feelings until we could do it ourselves. When we can easily name an emotion that has moved from sensation to awareness, it’s because we’ve had a lifetime practicing naming that connection. Many emotional experiences start in the body before they move into our awareness (as researchers at Columbia University, among others, have shown). In that moment, they are making healing connections between brain and body in a way that a traditional handout or worksheet couldn’t have. Each sensation is described in concrete language in order to be more accessible to neurotypical individuals, very literal thinkers, and people with alexithymia.Īs a person struggles to find words or feels choked up with emotion, they may find their hand tracing the lines of the wheel on the pillow. The two inner rings of this feeling wheel are emotions, while the outside ring contains descriptions of the body sensations that sometimes accompany that emotion. ![]() The Emotion Sensation Feeling Wheel pillow makes this design available to people in a way that traditional handouts miss. The Emotion Sensation Feeling Wheel pillow is created with a design that is an adaptation of the traditional feelings wheel that’s been floating around the internet (and, before that, classrooms) since the 1980s. Click here to read more about this project.Ībout the Design on the Feeling Sensation Wheel Pillow: While this post is dedicated to the pillow version of the Emotion Sensation Feeling Wheel, I’ve written at length about how I developed this resource and how to use it. Part of regulating our bodies and our emotions is to understand the current emotional experience – to distinguish what is being felt so that it can be honored and navigated. All responses prompt conversations that grow how we understand how our unique body-sensations and emotions are linked. All responses help integrate the mind and body. Why? Because when it comes to this emotion and body sensation wheel pillow, all responses generate opportunities for making connections. The human experience is diverse, and when using this pillow, you’ll have the best results if you embrace responses like “Oh, That’s totally not true for me” or “Actually, for me, that sensation belongs over there in that section.” Everyone’s Personal Emotion Sensation Wheel Is Different
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