Today’s Mandala
Emotion
“Colors, like features,
— Pablo Picasso
follow the changes
of the emotions.”
“Rational thoughts
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
never drive people’s creativity
the way emotions do.”
“We cannot selectively numb emotions,
— Brené Brown
when we numb the painful emotions,
we also numb the positive emotions.”
Today’s MotD reminds us to feel our emotions (from the joyful to the painful) while maintaining awareness that we are feeling them so that we may fully process them. From this perspective we can recognize the emotion, allow ourselves to feel it, and then understand it for what it is. Our challenge becomes remembering that we are not our emotions.
Omar Itani states “emotions are simply internal movements of energy that cause disruptions to your neutral physiological state…Emotions are an essential part of what you are, but they’re not who you are.” In his article You Are Not Your Emotions: A Guide on How to Process Difficult Emotions in a Healthy Way, he offer these two rules (in the article he gives an in-depth explanation of both):
- There Are No “Good” or “Bad” Emotions, Only “Good” or “Bad” Reactions
- You Are Not Your Emotions, You Are The One Experiencing Them (ie: you are not an angry person, you are feeling anger)
“When a problem is disturbing you,
— Michael A. Singer
don’t ask
“What should I do about it?”
ask,
“What part of me
is being disturbed by this?””
Blessings,
Maureen
The Mandala Lady
btw…started with this:
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