How Emotional Awareness Liberates You

E-motion is energy in motion while feelings are states of consciousness that we experience through our awareness. Moods describe the quality of our feeling state. Both are subject to change.

Emotions are a by-product of thoughts and thought processes. They generate sensory experience, a change in temperature, physical and mental contraction or expansion that trigger hormonal release (fight or flight response). Emotions are often accompanied by story, offering images or thought forms – a mental explanation of sorts. A signaling devise, emotions provide information that can be taken into consideration when deciding on a course of action. Kaizen life coaching can help you develop emotional fluency. If you’re feeling estranged, self-alienated or socially frustrated, a professional coach can help you liberate yourself from your emotional suffering and help you move into a happier feeling state and get into action.

Generated by thought, e-motions can also be managed by thought. Learn how your thoughts and expectations create your reality.

What are Feelings but States of Being

Feelings on the other hand are states of being. Feelings are the destinations the e-motion, energy in motion takes you to. Free of thought, higher feeling states are experienced in mental silence.

By tuning in, actively listening and acknowledging feeling states and emotions as they are experienced and taking time to recognize and appreciate them, we come to learn how to balance our inner feeling state and manage excess stress.

By witnessing our emotions we discover which thoughts generate which emotions and discover appropriate ways to replace negative thinking with positive thinking patterns while effectively responding to situations that may otherwise increase our stress levels and affect our blood pressure readings, which could, if uncontrolled, adversely impact on our health.

Inspiration

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.The thought manifests as the word;The word manifests as the deed;The deed becomes habit;And habit hardens into character.So watch the thought and its ways with careAnd let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.Buddha

Many of our fears are tissue-paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. Brendan Francis

Exploring Emotions and Feeling States Eliminates Fear

What if you took time to explore your interior landscape. Gave yourself permission to examine your felt emotions and invited them to act as your guides?

What would happen if you were to follow them - go right into them - see to what feeling state they might take you, examine what they want to tell you?

In the process, you may discover emotions denied, unexpressed or suppressed deep within you.

Body Disturbances can offer Actionable Insight

Poorly managed emotion can cause havoc. Anxiety disorders, characterized by excessive, uncontrolled every day worry can result in the following physical symptoms:

• Muscle tension

• Nausea

• Gastrointestinal discomfort

• Cold and clammy hands

• Difficulty swallowing

• Jumpiness and

• Difficulty sleeping.

In Canada:

• 5% to 9% of children suffer from serious emotional disturbances
• one out of 5 adults have a serious mental illness
• Women 18 to 45 years of age account for the largest proportion of people suffering from depression.

Suppressed emotions may be experienced as knots, pain, tension (a form of blocked energy) stored in your cells and locked within the muscle tissue or fascia adding to your stress and creating imbalance and possibly ill health. A situation that causes di-stress. A personal Self care program includes a well-developed wellness regime including exercise, regular energy balancing, relaxation, meditation and healthy diet. Personal commitment and regular attention to balancing the mind, body, spirit connections signals to the Self that you are reclaiming your power.

Our KAIZEN wellness services, supplemented with a custom-designed coaching program will help you:

• Correct e-motional and physical imbalances
• Get control of your life
• Develop awareness and self knowledge
• Make informed decisions.
• Gain satisfaction

Take Action to Reclaim Your Self

Start with what in your life, you, yourself can control:

• Your diet
• Exercise
• Sleep habits and
• Stress management routines

Accessing the Body's Wisdom

What if you could learn to listen to your body, embrace it, coax out its stories ever so gently, acknowledge, recognize and hear them out?

What would that be like?

How would that leave you feeling?

Like a pianist practices the musical scale, I invite you to explore and develop your own emotional range; discover the sound/colour/feel/smell and taste of your emotions and experience yet unexplored feeling states with full awareness.

The Inner Guidance System – a Tool for Improving Emotional Intelligence

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. Orison Swett Marden

E-motion and Corresponding Feeling State

• Ineffable: Enlightenment
• Bliss: Peace
• Serenity: Joy
• Reverence: Love
• Understanding: Reason
• Forgiveness: Acceptance
• Optimism: Willingness
• Trust: Neutrality
• Affirmation: Courage
• Scorn: Pride
• Hate: Anger
• Craving: Desire
• Anxiety: Fear
• Regret: Grief
• Despair: Apathy
• Blame: Guilt
• Humiliation: Shame

Inspired by Dr. David R. Hawkin’s Power vs. Force

Befriending your Emotions – a 6 Step Process

1. Recognize, acknowledge, name it

   As soon as you feel a change in your feeling state recognize and acknowledge it. Name it (See the e-motion and feeling scale above).

2. Process it

   Analyze what affected the change in your feeling state. What was the trigger? Did you gain or lose energy? Take note. If the catalyst for a negative emotional response was external to you, address it – speak up immediately. You may feel transgressed or intellectually put down, emotionally not respected. Let the other know that you know.

3. Consider your options

   Embrace the feeling – go into it. Consider your goal (do you wish to gain or lose energy? What is the appropriate response, if any? Choose your next thought and watch the impact on your feeling state (is it up or down on the E-motion and Feeling Guidance Scale). What e-motion did you experience? What feeling state resulted?

4. Respond

   Prepare and deliver your response with outcomes in mind. Monitor your barometer. Pay attention to what feels right for you and respect and honor yourself. You can invite a challenge when you’re ready, on your terms. Be mindful of your affect on others and how their response impacts you.

5. Assess Outcome

   Where are you on the emotional guidance scale? Higher or lower?

6. Plan your next move

   The emotional guidance scale can be a useful framework to help you to improve emotional intelligence and in coping with emotions.

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