In our modern technological society,
Many of us are just getting in the habit of pushing our emotions down because they're inconvenient.
But the trouble with doing this is we're pushing down our intelligence.
You know,
If you feel your emotions as they come up and you just feel them,
Maybe not act on them,
But just feel them,
They will leave you with an intelligence,
A wisdom,
An understanding.
You know,
Part of the problem about the realm of emotions,
It is the realm of the female and we're very skewed toward the male right now.
So even women are getting very out of touch with their emotions.
In fact,
Lots of times I'd be working with people and I'd say,
Oh how are you feeling right now?
And they'll go,
I don't know.
And of course I don't let them do this.
I say,
Hey you know,
Come on.
But this is often our knee-jerk of that we don't know because we don't want to know because it's going to be inconvenient and rock the boat.
So one of the big reasons to actually open up,
To you know,
Feel your emotions as you're going along is if you don't do this,
What will happen is they'll tend to erupt,
Especially if you've pushed them down.
I mean whenever you repress an emotion it's not gone,
It's just gone,
You know,
Into the closet and it's going to burst out at some point,
Probably at a very inconvenient time.
You know,
We are emotional beings.
We can't run from it.
It won't work to run from it.
You know,
I know some young women and this is happening with all of them.
Now all of them have grown up to be more head focused than heart focused and more focused intellectually than the emotions.
So in their mid-30s this happened with all of them that they had horrific emotional pain just erupting out of nowhere almost.
Now this happens to people because we're really not allowed to repress our emotions.
They're part of us.
We're mammals.
Mammals have emotions.
We cannot get rid of them.
What we can do is embrace them,
Feel them and let them inform us.
You know,
Lots of times when we're in a situation where people get emotional they act according to the emotions.
So if they're angry they yell or you know and of course this can cause difficulty and this is part of why emotions have a bad rap or even if we,
You know,
Fall madly in love with somebody because it's inconvenient.
But if we just feel the love,
We don't have to take action on it,
But if we just feel the love it will inform us and will become bigger people,
Wiser people.
I feel it's one of the most important things that needs to happen in the West that emotions start being honored because actually if they don't we're going to get them enormous pain because you see emotions are not going to go away.
We either get them in pain or we get them through joy and if you do feel your emotions as they come,
Keep journals,
You know,
Go conscious,
Observe,
Just get interested in how you're feeling and maybe why,
Then you become an expanded human being.
You become actually,
You become more intelligent and you know in a situation the person who who is freest has the most power because they can see the most and they can see the wisest course of action.
So it will just enhance us to do this.
Anyway,
Bless your hearts.
I'm just doing a little plug for daring to feel your emotions and dare to just notice them.
Take a little care of them.
Okay,
Bless your hearts.
