You were born manipulative! Everyone is.
It’s impossible for a newborn child to function independently and responsibly on his or her own. The body and brain are not developed. The newborn needs an “agent”—someone who can use their more developed body and brain to accomplish the tasks of living and who... Read More
Being Grateful because:
Neglecting to offer the emotions we feel a pathway for them to move on has an effect similar to a hoarder who buys more and more, cluttering the home with all the purchased goods, many of which never even get opened! Soon, the hoarder has trouble moving through his/her home. In a... Read More
Now, we need to explore the emotions to better understand of what they want us to become aware. For all of us, emotions say things like “you’re feeling manipulated,” “you’re feeling angry,” or “you’re quite jealous.” Knowing the places in our body where each of these “common-to-us-all emotional messages” registers, we can speed our understanding and our reaction times.
It’s great to know that emotions are messengers, but how do we actually hear the message of a particular emotion? How can we listen to emotions?
Since emotions are connected with our body, the best way to listen to them is by staying aware of what is happening in our body.... Read More
We all seem to believe that emotions are “ours.” Indeed, when we talk about them, we refer to them as “my emotions,” or “my anger.” In fact, emotions are not “ours.” Just as we have learned that children are with us, yet do not belong to us, so emotions are an intensely intimate part of us, yet don’t really... Read More
As we noted in the last “You and Emotions” blog post, some people have a very easy time finding the emotions that arise in them, and some don’t. If you don’t feel emotions easily, please take the time to read that first post in our series, "Emotions Belong in Your Body: Find... Read More
It turns out many people believe it is possible to get rid of emotions. It is not! There is evidence we experience emotions while still in the womb. They stay with us for our entire lives.
Emotions come with our body. We feel them in our body. Our body never forgets... Read More
I am on the road in my RV! My very first solo trip. I left my daughter’s near Raleigh, N.C., heading up into Virginia to traverse the Skyline Drive of Shenandoah National Park (Yes, I got my lifetime National Parks pass, too!). Along the way I have been visiting friends and family. I have gone to the Andrew Wyeth... Read More
One thing you will hear from me over and over again is, “Our Earth is a giant school, to which we have all come in order to learn and grow.” Not only is the earth beautiful, it is “concrete.” This makes it a perfect environment for growing.
By “concrete,” we are talking about... Read More