Learning to Be!
Physical pain is directly linked to our emotional state. Life gets tough sometimes. You start to feel like you’re on an emotional rollercoaster after a bit. Those emotions can cause a decline in your physical health which leads to physical suffering. Western medicine usually neglects the link between emotions, spirit, and body. However, if you start paying more attention to the signs your body sends, and experience the links between the physical and emotional, you will […] Read More
Emotions such as fear, anger, frustration, and immobility are energies. And you can potentially ‘catch’ these energies from people without realizing it. If you tend to be an emotional sponge, it’s vital to know how to avoid taking on an individual’s negative emotions, or even how to deflect the free-floating negativities in crowds.
Another twist is that chronic anxiety, depression, or stress can turn you into an emotional sponge by wearing down your defenses. Suddenly, you become hyper-attuned to others, especially suffering with similar pain.
by Brianna Wiest
Discomfort is what happens when we are on the precipice of change. Unfortunately, we often confuse it for unhappiness, and cope with the latter while running from the former.
It usually takes a bit of discomfort to break through to a new understanding, to release a limiting belief, to motivate ourselves to create real change. Discomfort is a signal, one that is often very helpful.
Here are a few (less than desirable) feelings that may indicate you’re on the right path after all:
1. Feeling as though you are reliving your childhood struggles.
Have you heard of the Abraham-Hicks emotional guidance scale before?
Divine Self channeled by Simon NightStarr
Jealousy is one of the greatest challenges that humans have on the path to greater awareness! Jealousy is a dis-ease. It is an erroneous thought that someone else has something that you do not have that you would like to have, but that you do not possess yourself. The origin of this disease is a sense of a lack of love. This is the origin of all diseases, period. If you pay close attention, the very word “disease” clues you into this. Dis-ease is lack of ease, a lack of love.
Laughter really is the best medicine. I mean, we can see it all around us. We see children in the play area, running around laughing and smiling and living in the moment, while their parents sit on the side, full of the stresses of day-to-day life and only the occasional smile breaking their otherwise serious faces. People on their death beds often say they wish they had laughed more.
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Written by Randi G. Fine
Unexpressed emotion will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. ~Sigmund Freud~
Most of the feelings that interfere with our lives today, our negative emotional responses, have little to do with what is occurring in the present. They stem from painful childhood memories that lie buried deep inside of us, ones that have yet to be faced and dealt with.
When these memories are subconsciously triggered, all rationality goes out the window. We become hypersensitive, rigid, irrational, and insecure.
Last night, my sister and I drove our separate ways. She went to spend the night at my parents’ house that I recently moved from and I continued driving to my new home. I thought how the parting of ways was symbolic and said to myself, “Wow, this is sad.” But when I tried to feel the truth of that statement, I only found happiness.
Emotion is what makes man feel alive. His ability to feel deeply, to have empathy and compassion, and to be sensitive to both internal and external factors by exercising present moment awareness frequently are the actions that enable him to execute his passions in a manner filled with truth so deep that it possesses the power to connect him with others and with the universe as a whole. Without feeling, he is merely existing, not living.