Emotions are not an Energy to be Controlled, they’re an Energy to be Respected and Listened to. Without our Emotions we couldn’t keep ourself Safe, we couldn’t find Community, we couldn’t Transition from one Life phase to another. Emotion becomes a problem when it Overwhelms all of our other Media. We’re awakened in the middle of the night by a noise in the house, and our Body is overcome by Fear. We become Ungrounded, and the mind is only useful for trying to figure out what the noise was and how much time we have to escape before being hacked to death by the neighborhood Samurai.
Compared to our normal State of Being, and compared to being Grounded and Centered, our Experience of our Body is entirely different when Fear grips it. In that kind of circumstance, we want to suppress our Fear Reaction just enough to Recover all…
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