Dear Popyxo:

You wrote above: “I think I am hoping that because I have recognized the situation, the emotions and feelings should therefore disappear”- I had the same expectation and sometimes I find myself expecting this yet again. The reason it doesn’t happen is that our emotions are tied to multiple neuropathways of thoughts and core beliefs. When we have a recognition of a situation, a realization, an insight, it is only one neuropathway. The many other neuropathways still operate with the old emotions in them.

This is why it takes excruciating patience with the long, long , non-linear, gradual, slow process of change, healing.

anita