About Feeling & Emotions
Feeling in this page is meant literally, such as the wind through our hair, the warmth of a hug, the more or less tension in muscles, the heavy of light weight of a book, the feelings of organs and discomfort or pain out- and inside.
Talking about emotion we mean a thought combined with a feeling. Like hurting your thumb when hammering a nail into the wall gives a thought: ‘Shit, this hurts’, combined with the pain on your thumb, which for example comes out as anger or frustration etc.
During our early childhood we all are conditioned with the fact that whatever we need, comes from the outside world. If we aren’t conscious about it, many of us still go on expecting that. When we experience that we don’t get what we want from life or others, we automatically tend to blaim and complain about the outside world.
Directed by emotions that will signal that there is a lack in our comfortzone. Often valued as negative emotions such as frustration, irritation, anger, disappointment etc. which are opposite to the positive emotions we experience when life is kind to us.
Both groups of emotions signal something underneath: the negative emotions, such as frustration, irritation, anger etc. come from being separeted from our Heart, from emotions like love, compassion, peace and contentment. Emotions that are telling us we are connected with this heart energy.
The negative emotions actually are reactions of the survival programs, telling us to move away from a possible danger, causing a higer stress level.
If we recognise one of these emotions or stress as a regular fact in our daily life, they direct us towards the thoughts or stories that are connected with the old memories. There we can search and find the identifications that keep us chained.
General Discovery suggestions can be found in Homework.
Questions for Journaling about Emotions
chose on of the groups below to work with:
write or record daily 3 to 5 sentences about this theme, reflect after a week, and note what you discovered and what kind of pattern you found. Ask yourself what kind of identification can be discovered under the pattern?
1 In what kind of situations do you experience negative emotions? How do you (re)act from there?
2 What kind of stories do repeat themselves?
3 Which tasks or topics made you feel resistance or the urge to procrastinate? With what kind of emotions are they connected?
4 Which expectations do you have in relation to your more or less intimate friends and family?
5 What kind of physical conditions are connected with negative emotions?
6 Which emotions are related to receiving feedback or reflecting on your journaling?
Homework:
about discovering limiting identifications via
* Thinking: about Thoughts, Thought Patterns, Knowing and Know-How
* Behavior
* Triggers, related to be with others
* In- and external Communication Patterns
* Levels of Life, incl. The Bypass Syndrome