jupiterswoon
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I thought this paragraph was worth sharing and discussion, this is from the book by Karla McLaren, the book is called The Language of Emotions. Definitely worth reading, as she talks about the pitfalls of being an empath, and how to overcome those pitfalls.
"Our current understanding of emotion lags behind our current understanding of nearly every other aspect of our life. We can chart the universe and split the atom, but we can’t 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 energy we posses,- our emotions. We are intellectually brilliant, physically resourceful, spiritually imaginative, but emotionally underdeveloped. This is a shame because emotions contain indispensible vitality that can be channeled towards 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 distinctive healing forces."
In this book, as she talks about how to use emotions as tools. This paragraph really stood out to me, especially the part about how emotions can be misused- "villified, repressed, (&) manipulated"... During this last election, I couldn't help but see a good many of my fellow Americans frothing at the mouth, projecting onto the candidates all of their fears, their anger, their mistrust.
My parents for example, recently went through a foreclosure, vehemently hated Bush before, and now hate Obama because he wasn't able to fix the economy in four years- they made bad loans, borrowed too much money, moved into a house they could not afford. But instead of recognizing that, and experiencing the sobering emotion of shame, they instead turned it against Obama. Not that I'm not saying people can't vote differently- but looking at their reason, I couldn't see any logic behind it. Suddenly they wanted everything deregulated, when that's exactly where the problem had come from- unregulated loans with ridiculous interest.
I would like for people to share their experiences with emotions- misusing them and using them correctly.
For me, I hated my emotions, and my ability as an empath to experience other peoples emotions- I would get more depressed about something that happened to a friend than they would. I'm trying to start learning how to use my emotions as a strength.
Discuss!
"Our current understanding of emotion lags behind our current understanding of nearly every other aspect of our life. We can chart the universe and split the atom, but we can’t 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 energy we posses,- our emotions. We are intellectually brilliant, physically resourceful, spiritually imaginative, but emotionally underdeveloped. This is a shame because emotions contain indispensible vitality that can be channeled towards 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 distinctive healing forces."
In this book, as she talks about how to use emotions as tools. This paragraph really stood out to me, especially the part about how emotions can be misused- "villified, repressed, (&) manipulated"... During this last election, I couldn't help but see a good many of my fellow Americans frothing at the mouth, projecting onto the candidates all of their fears, their anger, their mistrust.
My parents for example, recently went through a foreclosure, vehemently hated Bush before, and now hate Obama because he wasn't able to fix the economy in four years- they made bad loans, borrowed too much money, moved into a house they could not afford. But instead of recognizing that, and experiencing the sobering emotion of shame, they instead turned it against Obama. Not that I'm not saying people can't vote differently- but looking at their reason, I couldn't see any logic behind it. Suddenly they wanted everything deregulated, when that's exactly where the problem had come from- unregulated loans with ridiculous interest.
I would like for people to share their experiences with emotions- misusing them and using them correctly.
For me, I hated my emotions, and my ability as an empath to experience other peoples emotions- I would get more depressed about something that happened to a friend than they would. I'm trying to start learning how to use my emotions as a strength.
Discuss!
