Dear reader,
I just had a wonderful conversation with a journalist for a magazine about personal development.
We started talking about the depth of emotions and how they reveal the secrets of creation. But the more we spoke, the clearer it became that we needed to start at the beginning and not at the end of emotional development.
The question that arose was “What will serve our readers?” and with that the question: “What are they really longing for?”…
Which made us speak about the shortcut to inner peace that an emotion provides us.
How?
By allowing it to flow through you.
Stay present while you withdraw your attention from the mind.
While you withdraw your attention from the outer world and go inside.
Be willing to connect with the emotion as a pure energetic current and let it be…
You know what happens then?
Should I give you a spoiler alert, or do you want to try it and give me the answer?
Let’s do the latter and make it into a challenge.
The next time a difficult emotion shows up, give it your full, 100% attention.
(And I mean give the emotion the full attention, not the story!)
But I need to warn you about two things:
- Don’t do this with high levels of anxiety!
(I don’t want you to lose yourself) - When your nervous system isn’t used to the intensity of charged emotions, it might need some practice. Don’t overdo it.
Each time you stay present with an emotion, you gently stretch your nervous system and expand your capacity to remain present.
Each Thursday I give free emotion codex coaching during a Vera Illuminates Live session.
Perhaps you’ll discover that emotions were never the problem.
Resisting them was.
And of course they also want to help you with some self inquiry, but’s that’s another level of working with emotions.
Love, Vera
