It’s likely that once you start trying to notice your emotions and their accompanying sensations more regularly, that other emotions will rush in to judge your emotions. For example, feeling shame over your anger (shamxiety?) or fear of your anxiety (fearxiety?). Here is where it is time to lean into curiosity and kindness about WHATEVER you’re feeling. If you can start to be curious about what is happening and notice the sensations that come up in your body, you can then begin to be fascinated about how your brain has developed and marvel at how it works to keep you safe.
Even if after noticing, you still make a choice that you wish you hadn’t or you can’t get to sleep because you’re ruminating over a conversation you had with your friend, it’s OK my friends, because just noticing is where you begin to harness your truest power. Noticing is a big win!
Your soul power lies in the noticing and the naming.
Noticing and naming what you are feeling can lead to self-forgiveness, lead to the desire to do something different, or lead to accepting a situation for the time being, until you’re ready for the next step. But you can’t do any of that until you begin to notice. When you begin to be able to notice and name what you’re feeling, then you can start to work with what messages your emotions are giving you.
Noticing takes practice and so does the naming. But what you practice grows stronger, and what grows stronger will lead you to showing up fully and intentionally in your life in ways you never thought possible. And, it is only from this place that we can make the changes we want in our lives.
And that, my friends, is a power worth harnessing.
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