In a powerful Gabor Maté video [1], we explored how humanity has been conditioned to suppress emotions—a practice contributing to widespread physical, emotional, and mental health challenges. Embracing and expressing our emotions is essential for true health and happiness.
Today, let’s take a step toward greater joy by reconnecting with our emotional authenticity.
The Essence of Authenticity ❤️🩹
To progress in meaningful ways, we must honor and fully experience our genuine emotions. [2]
A major misconception about emotions is not knowing how to properly feel them. This lack of understanding prevents us from receiving their messages, which often reveal what we need, where we’re out of alignment, and what truly matters.
Take anger as an example—this powerful emotion carries immense energy but often gets channeled into blame or harmful actions. Without taking a moment to sit with it, with kindness and curiosity, it can lead to regrettable outcomes.
However, when we pause and allow ourselves to feel, we can gently ask our emotions questions like:
- What do you need right now?
- What feels unbalanced?
- What’s truly important to you?
By giving our emotions space and listening compassionately, their energy transforms. This shift leads to clarity, empowering us to take positive, aligned actions.
Your Authentic-Emotion Workout 💪
Expressing Authentic Emotion Freely [This might be more like 17, not 7 minutes today]
Learning how to be with our emotions so they don’t push us in negative our counteractive action – is HUGE. What most of us have done is learn to shut them down.
We were told ‘don’t cry’. Don’t be angry. Be happy. Be grateful. Smile for your grandparents. Hug your Aunt and be happy with and about everyone.
Very few of us have been shown how to allow our emotions in a positive way, so we learn to shut them off and in doing so we shut off our connection to our intuition, our intimacy and our innate ability to feel joy and all the wonderful positive experiences FULLY in life. But this guide will help you in reconditioning and rewiring.
- Call forward your most recent BIG Anger feeling. Just trust whatever comes up. If a moment from last week comes up – go with that. If a moment from 10 years ago comes up – go with that.
- Let yourself feel it. Where do you feel it in the body? What color does or would it have? What texture and movement does or would it have?
- If it were a cartoon character – create it as an exaggerated disney animation. Let this character express and vent and share freely. Just let it express however it wants to.
- Now ask this cartoon character:
- What do you need?
- What’s out of balance?
- What’s important to you?
- And finally, use your love and compassion to give this character what they need. Your love, acceptance and support will transform this seemingly negative energy into free energy for moving forward positively!
- Now call forward your most recent BIG Sad feeling. And repeat questions 2 - 5.
- Finally call forward your most recent BIG Joy feeling. Repeat questions 2 - 5.
