The Nature of Naming
Do you feel a label or what it points at?
The limiting nature of Naming..
Sitting quietly on the edge of the bed, jaw tight, hands resting on knees.
“Anxious,” the mind said. The word rose fast — automatic, familiar.
It had been thought a thousand times. I’m anxious.
It came with a script: racing thoughts, shallow breath, tight chest, bad day.
But today, something paused.
What if that word wasn’t the whole truth?
What if it was just a label — a shortcut — wrapped around something far richer, far more alive?
Eyes closing. The room softened. Attention turned inward.
Where was this feeling?
First: the belly — tight, like a hand clenched around a stone.
Not anxiety, not fear. Just… pressure. Swirling warmth. Dense. Alive.
Then: the throat — narrow, as if holding back sound. Not nervousness. Just a sensation of constriction. Texture. Energy. Motion.
Now curiousity. Stillness.
And slowly, slowly, something began to shift.
The tightness in the chest, once labelled panic, revealed itself as movement — warmth rising, spreading into the collarbones. Not pleasant, not unpleasant. Just real.
Not an idea. Not a story.
Just sensation.
The mind had always been quick — rushing to name, categorize, escape.
But underneath the label was a world unspoken: heat, pulse, vibration, tingling.
A field of experience that had never needed a name.
Breathing happened.
And for once, trying to fix the feeling didn’t happen.
Just feel it.
Not a concept.
Not a diagnosis.
Not a problem.
Just this body — pulsing, shifting, vibrating with life.
And in that direct meeting, something softened.
Not because the discomfort vanished,
but because it was finally being touched it without armor. Without a label.
In that space — before thought, beyond language — there was peace.
Not absence of feeling,
but presence with what had always been there,
waiting to be seen,
just as it is.
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