Emotions can be like a peaceful pond, or a raging river. When we let our feelings be felt, they flow past so that we can freely experience what is coming next. And even knowing that, it can still feel overwhelmingly difficult to give space to painful emotions and not try to deny them or brush them away. Today we’ll explore some tools and perspectives to help emotions feel more manageable.
In this episode I discuss
- If any emotions are actually “bad”
- Why we avoid certain emotions, and how that becomes a habit
- What Core Emotions are
- The important messages that emotions deliver
- Rating emotions by intensity and pleasantness
- How emotions are like tunnels
- Using the Change Triangle to recognize your authentic feelings
- Cultivating emotions that you want to experience more often
- Using Bach Flower Essences to feel more emotionally balanced
If this episode brings up questions, or you want to explore how I can help you feel more emotionally balanced and empowered, book a short, free call with me to have a conversation.
Resources:
- Yale’s Mood Meter emotion scale
- Dr. Robert Plutchik’s Emotion Wheel
- Plutchick’s Emotion Wheel, expanded and emoji’fied by RJ Andrews @infowetrust (Twitter)
- An Emotion Wheel image created by the Noom health coaching program.
- My tool to correlate Bach’s 38 Flower Essences with desirable emotions
Share your experience in feeling your spectrum of emotions, or share which chart is your favorite in the comments below, or join the conversation in the Live With Less Stress facebook group.
