The Language of Emotions

The Language Of Emotions



Introduction

Creating a Conscious Life

How would it feel to set strong boundaries for yourself while

simultaneously building close and healthy relationships? Or to have full-time intuitive knowledge about yourself and your surroundings? What could you accomplish if you had an internal compass that unerringly brought you back to your truest path and your deepest self? Or if you had free access to a constant source of energy, rejuvenation, and certainty?

Each of these abilities live within you right now; they live within

your emotions. With the help of your emotions, you can become self-aware and immensely resourceful in your relationships. If you can learn

to focus and work honorably with the incredible information inside

each of your feeling states, you can become intimately connected to the

source of your intelligence, you can hear the deepest parts of yourself,

and you can heal your most profound wounds. If you can learn to see

your emotions as tools of your deepest awareness, you’ll be able to move

forward as a whole and functional person. This should be wonderful

news, but our culture’s deeply conflicted attitudes about emotions make

this rather difficult to accept.

Our current understanding of emotion lags far behind our understanding

of nearly every other aspect of life. We can chart the universe and

split the atom, but we can’t seem to understand or manage our natural

emotional reactions to provoking situations. We work with nutrition

and exercise to increase our energy, but we ignore the richest source of

the language of emotions energy we possess--our emotions. We are intellectually brilliant, physically resourceful, spiritually imaginative, but emotionally underdeveloped. This is a shame because emotions contain indispensable vitality that can be channeled toward self-knowledge, interpersonal awareness, and profound healing. Unfortunately, we don’t treat them as such. Instead, emotions are categorized, celebrated, vilified, repressed, manipulated, humiliated, adored, and ignored. Rarely, if ever, are they honored. Rarely, if ever, are they seen as distinct healing forces.

I am an empath, which means that I’m able to read and understand

emotions. You’re an empath too--we all are--but I’m aware of this skill,

and since early childhood I’ve learned to see and feel emotions as distinct entities, each with its own voice, character, purpose, and use. The emotions are as real and as distinct to me as colors and shades are to a painter.

THE LANGUAGE OF EMOTIONS by Karla McLaren.

Copyright ©2010 Karla McLaren