Emotion in Motion - Exploring the weather inside of us
Resensitizing. Learning to decipher our emotions when we have forgotten how to speak the language of our soul. How to feel alive while alive.
Have you ever experienced overwhelm? Confusion? Exhaustion? Burnout? You may have been stuck in functional freeze or survival mode for a long period of time and lost vitality, joy, aliveness, perhaps meaning?
In a world full of distractions this is a call for you to listen in. Deeply.
Why how/and if we feel matters
Our feelings give us important information about our wellbeing.
They are here to guide us and make decisions. Essentially they are the built-in compass we came here with.
They are our truth. Our experience. But only if we let them flow.
They can protect us from harm.
They are also here to pull us to directions our soul is yearning for
or away from living an unfulfilling life.
They allow us to feel others and experience our shared energies for conscious co-creation.
They are magnets attracting experiences into our life. Forget all the manifestation mumbo jumbo until you know what you feel and who are you being on a conscious level daily.
We need to understand and become fluent in this language.
It will empower us to live a soul aligned life.
The future of our world depends on it.
Time to get emotionally literate/intelligent
Time to see clearly with humility. We don’t know what we don’t know until we realize there is a gap in understanding (ourselves or others).
Consciously labeling our emotions is an important part of developing an understanding about our feelings. Emotional intelligence is what integrates the wisdom of our bodies and mind and can result in achieving heart-brain coherence. It can be cultivated and developed in each and every one of us.
Many of us hasn’t been taught or modelled emotional intelligence growing up and we needed to figure it out on the fly. If you were that child, know that this is a skill, a muscle and not only a trait we are born with. It will help us lead a more fulfilling life, so we owe it to ourselves to hone it.
I have been working towards this goal the past 6 years. Better late than never.
As a highly sensitive and empathetic child, not fully aware of the workings of my own internal emotional terrain I was being raised by parents who didn’t have a good understanding of their own emotions and both having difficult traumas behind them a lot of the time they couldn’t mirror me effectively. This contradiction caused a very real struggle for me in understanding, regulating and expressing my emotions. I felt deeply and intensely and although in most of my relationships I navigated emotions naturally and instinctively with empathy, there were moments where I certainly felt overwhelmed, unresourced and even paralyzed by my emotions.
Emotions that aren’t processed, unfortunately get suppressed and can lead to all sorts of negative outcomes in the long run, including physical illness and chronic disease. Take just the type C personality as depicted by Gabor Mate in his book “When the Body says No”. Emotional suppression in this personality type over time caused chronic illnesses and autoimmune diseases.
On the flipside emotional maturity and awareness leads to genuine emotional processing and utilizing the emotions as guidance on our path.
New generation of emotional attunement and safety
As I see it, we have an opportunity to change this for our children but also to teach ourselves. Emotional attunement and emotional safety will create emotionally intelligent, mature people who then go ahead to create healthy relationships, healthy families and a healthy, thriving, peaceful society. We can help really ground our soul into our bodies to live a soul aligned life, starting with developing emotional awareness, the ability to express and nurture empathy.
How has your experience been as a child growing up?
It starts with us - we have the power to reconnect
When we prioritize our emotional wellbeing and recognize the power of our emotions and their influence in our life we can begin to align with our soul’s creations powerfully. We no longer brush them aside, but take them as call for attention. We can only create what we want to create if it aligns with us emotionally. Simply put: are we fully on board with what we proclaim that we want to create? or are there conflicting emotions pulling us into different directions? As a sovereign being you have what it takes to write your own story, but only after you learnt to navigate your emotional guidance system will you be able to be truly in alignment. We need to be able to differentiate higher guidance from ego conditioned loops and real peace from comfort zone.
I will be posting here regularly sharing my experiences and emotions honestly, oftentimes through the lens of creative expression and music as I found art and especially music to be a complex and nuanced way that can express emotions in places where simply words alone cannot go.
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Here is the logo of my movement/mission I created. It really symbolizes how under the wooden surface often there are suppressed emotions waiting to be seen, held, acknowledged and accepted.
Our power to be cultivated through true embodiment.
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