Tag: emotions

How to Manage your Emotions

How to Experience Emotional Control?One of my favorite Quotes is “ If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.”  Sydney Banks. I share this quote because of how I have related to emotions throughout life. I was mostly fearful of my emotions. As a

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How Babies Experience Emotion and Why you Should act Like a Baby.

Have you ever watched a baby experience emotions?Babies can’t tell stories so their emotions are clean. They feel pure emotion without any narrative.For example, if you take away a baby’s favorite toy, they just feel sad. They feel, “I want the toy and it’s not here so I’m sad.” Period.They don’t feel, “This always happens

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Sitting with Negative Emotion

I feel something quite a bit. I call it bored, although I know that’s not really it.Restless, maybe. But it feels worse than restless. Uncomfortable in my own skin. Like it’s dangerous or just really unpleasant to Be Me in that moment.It’s a restlessness that makes me want to move, be busy, disassociate, numb. I

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What a Mess!

I have serious issues with clutter. I hate it; makes me feel icky. When I’m visiting someone who has a lot of stuff—and that stuff is out where I have to see it—I get claustrophobic and start looking for the door.  I’m talking about physical stuff, like those old plastic cups that came from the gas

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