pain, trauma and sadness stuck in the brain stem

[Black Rose]

The way I feel, I have lots of tightness in the area that is in the center of my head but in the area in the back roof of the mouth.

I feel like crying but can't.

I am stuck.

 

[ZenRaiden]

The way I feel, I have lots of tightness in the area that is in the center of my head

Honestly not sure where you mean center of the head, but my head used to hurt from my constricted vertebrae in the neck. Ergo screen time TV and PC.
I realized the migraines I used to have all my life were caused by screen time.
Yoga alleviates them completely.
Yoga and proper gentle neck exercise.
But chronic stress can trigger my neck constriction too as muscle tightness goes hand in hand with neck constriction.
Your brain stem might be stuck. There are many nerves in the neck.

 

[Old Things]

Do you think these issues are caused by what the title of this thread is?

 

[Black Rose]

Honestly not sure where you mean center of the head,

Do you think these issues are caused by what the title of this thread is?

 

[Old Things]

Your brain does not have pain receptors. That's why there is a huge chunk of bone to protect it.

 

[ZenRaiden]

 

[ZenRaiden]

Your brain does not have pain receptors. That's why there is a huge chunk of bone to protect it.

Sort of true, but with the caveat, that we do have many sensory organs and emotions in our brain, so parts of it certainly can feel pain.
Our neocortex is indeed just a blob of nerves dipped in liquid.

 

[birdsnestfern]

It may or may not help, but here is an imagery exersize you can try.

Close your eyes and concentrate on the pain you feel, look at it and ask it to tell you what it reminds you of.
Keep looking at it and paying deep attention to it.
If it were a color, what color would it be?

Let a moment go by.

If it were a volume of liquid, how big of a container would it fill?

Keep thinking of the pain, and now, see if you can mentally turn it into the volume of liquid and the color that it feels like and pour it out, into a glass container the size you feel it to be. Now, pour the colored liquid pain out of yourself and then out of the container into the ground.

Sometimes, this really removes the pain, don't ask me how or why, but it seems to work.

Anyway, that is one way to alleviate pain, give it ALL of your undivided attention asking where it came from, what its about its size, what it reminds you of, its color, turn it into a liquid and pour it out.

Are you allergic to something? What triggers it? How often does it happen, etc. Write out your feelings, or express something?
And possibly try drinking something warm like hot cocoa or tea or soup.

 

[ZenRaiden]

 

[Black Rose]

Your brain does not have pain receptors. That's why there is a huge chunk of bone to protect it.

Sort of true, but with the caveat, that we do have many sensory organs and emotions in our brain, so parts of it certainly can feel pain.
Our neocortex is indeed just a blob of nerves dipped in liquid.

There is a big knot in my top throat.

I said I cannot cry, it is stuck sadness.

 

[Old Things]

Your brain does not have pain receptors. That's why there is a huge chunk of bone to protect it.

Sort of true, but with the caveat, that we do have many sensory organs and emotions in our brain, so parts of it certainly can feel pain.
Our neocortex is indeed just a blob of nerves dipped in liquid.

There is a big knot in my top throat.

I said I cannot cry, it is stuck sadness.

I'm sorry to hear that. If I had a solution to your problem, I would share it. But IDK what is going on with you.

 

[ZenRaiden]

There is a big knot in my top throat.

I said I cannot cry, it is stuck sadness.

I can't really help you with that. Sadness is something I rarely feel, but its possible that you have a emotion stuck in your body.
Essentially emotions need to be felt in some sort of way, but the emotions I feel if they are intense I just wait until my mind processes them the best it can.
I never really read anything about processing emotions that would illuminate me on how to speed up or aid emotional processing.

What I do know is that if an emotion is somewhere in the body, feeling it ergo just staying with it, and not numbing it out makes it go away.

I actually felt like this several times if not dozens of time stuck with emotions, wondering when they go away, but generally once I felt the emotion once or several times it went away permanently.

That being said it depends what you feel sad about.
Because if you have something to be sad about and its something that can be workout then feeling sad won't make the problem necessarily go away.
I just assume you feel sad for a unidentified reasons.

 

[Black Rose]

Are you allergic to something? What triggers it? How often does it happen, etc. Write out your feelings, or express something?
And possibly try drinking something warm like hot cocoa or tea or soup.

That being said it depends what you feel sad about.
Because if you have something to be sad about and its something that can be workout then feeling sad won't make the problem necessarily go away.
I just assume you feel sad for a unidentified reasons.

it is in the orange green and blue areas.

yes, I feel sad because if I was angry I would destroy things.

sadness is what makes you feel not angry I suppose, it is not depression because that happens in the neocortex.

what problem I have is because of something pulling on these areas.

it pulls so hard that I am not angry or scared just tight in the middle.

I want to yell at people, I want to break things because I know that will make me feel better but I don't and it is not in the amygdala because if it was I would feel heat.

I am just super unstable in the middle. like a massive energy build-up.

it feels like I am hungry. in the throat, not the stomach.

 

[birdsnestfern]

You are safe. You are powerful. You can express anything you want to.
Ok, and if you need to express it privately, that is fine. See if having a cup of something warm helps.
Or tell people NO, STOP if we are bothering you. I hope you can find words to say whatever is bothering you.

 

[birdsnestfern]

While it's long been known that breathing is connected to your brain (and vice versa), it wasn't until early 2017 that researchers discovered breathing may directly affect your brain activity, including your state of arousal and higher-order brain function.1 Breathing is initiated by a cluster of neurons in your brainstem.​

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Give These Controlled Breathing Techniques a Try​

Subtle changes in the way you breathe can lead to significant changes in your body and mind. And different breathing techniques have the potential to offer different advantages to your system. As such, it's a good idea to try out a variety and find out which works best for you (or simply rotate through them randomly).
One of the most effective breathing exercises (a Buteyko method) to reduce stress and anxiety does not involve taking deep breaths at all but rather focuses on small breaths taken through your nose, as follows:

1. Take a small breath into your nose, followed by a small breath out
2. Then hold your nose for five seconds in order to hold your breath, and then release your nose to resume breathing
3. Breathe normally for 10 seconds
4. Repeat the sequence

In their review of scientific evidence into the effects of controlled, yogic breathing, the Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine compiled 1,400 references that involved the yogic breathing practices such as the following.24 Give one, or several, a try today and see if it makes a difference for you.

Nadi Shodhana/Nadi Shuddhi (Alternate nostril breathing) — With your right thumb, close the right nostril and inhale through your left nostril. Closing the left nostril, exhale through the right, following which, inhalation should be done through the right nostril. Closing the right nostril, breath out through your left nostril. This is one round. The procedure is repeated for the desired number of rounds.

Surya Anuloma Viloma (Right uninostril breathing) — Closing the left nostril, both inhalation and exhalation should be done through your right nostril, without altering the normal pace of breathing.

Chandra Anuloma Viloma (Left uninostril breathing) — Similar to Surya Anuloma Viloma, breathing is done through your left nostril alone, by closing the right nostril.

Surya Bhedana (Right nostril initiated breathing) — Closing the left nostril, inhalation should be done through your right nostril. At the end of inhalation, close the right nostril and exhale through the left nostril. This is one round. The procedure is repeated for the desired number of rounds.

Ujjayi (Psychic breath) — Inhalation and exhalation are done through the nose at a normal pace, with partial contraction of the glottis, which produces a light snoring sound. You should be aware of the passage of breath through the throat during the practice.

Bhramari (Female honeybee humming breath) — After a full inhalation, closing the ears using the index fingers, you should exhale making a soft humming sound similar to that of a female honeybee. Try slowing the breathing down to 6-10 breaths per minute doing these breath exersizes. It improves calmness. You can look these up on youtube, here is one: Say, I let go of all the energy that is not mine.

 

[EndogenousRebel]

This guy posts a lot of hypnosis videos, and whatever your position is on those I do think it helps quite all the chatter you have in your mind if you follow along with it.

I find that when this happens I can feel the logical aspect of my mind relax and feel my underlying emotions much better. I do want to try Yoga.

 

[androgyne]

You have to let your anger out, bit by bit. It takes years. But letting anger out over time will relieve some of the pressure.

 

[ZenRaiden]

I am just super unstable in the middle. like a massive energy build-up.

Due to my trauma I had lots of repressed anger and maybe still do. I don't really know. Rage too. Sadness and guilt shame were just cover up emotions.
I know this sounds weird, but if you feel bad, because of past, being angry is OK, but expressing this anger meaningfully is hard, as trauma no longer exists usually.
What I did was I just sit and smoke and feel angry.
You can actually allow yourself to feel and not necessarily worry about expressing it.
So I just sat and got super angry and do anything else.
Like I did nothing at all, not even shout or yell, or hit anything.
I just felt super unstable and angry, until that emotion was fully experienced and it went away.
Some emotions overwhelmed me so much I though I am losing sanity and I just wrote it in my emotional journal.
Sounds easy, but its hard.
As for you I really don't know what specific way you can experience emotions in best way.
If you are able to channel the emotions or express them I guess trying is healthy.
Like just hitting a boxing bag in glows, or something.
I really am not an expert in this. All I know you can just get angry or sad any time when processing emotions and for me it took me months of work to even allow this to happen. Like I had an emotional block to not allow me feel, as feelings were associated with danger for me and in some ways they still are.