It can often feel like our negative emotions are the enemy and it makes sense why. When we experience negative emotions, we feel bad AND they also get in the way of us making better choices in the moment.
That is why when Gary Craig created his version of tapping, he called it “Emotional Freedom Techniques” because there is such a strong human desire to escape strong negative emotions.
For me, the process isn't just about escaping negative emotions, but also understanding them. Each of the negative emotions we feel is our internal guidance system trying to communicate a specific piece of information via the emotion.
An understanding of what information the emotion is trying to convey makes the journey to healing and transformation so much easier!
This week's podcast is the first in a new series on Healing Fundamentals that will explore the underpinnings of the transformational process. The information conveyed by our emotions is the first part of the series because I believe that it is the lynchpin in the wider healing process.
Here is how I think about what negative emotions are trying to say and, most importantly, how we can use that information to create transformation.
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The fear of success is the single most difficult type of resistance to uncover.
After working with clients for many years, I have come to the realization that we are notoriously bad eyewitnesses to our own experiences.
Sometimes we have to do tasks that we just don't like because they are no fun, such as having to scrub the inside of a smelly old garbage can, or doing yard work at three in the afternoon on a hot summer's day.
Just because we know what to do, how to do it, and have everything we need to take action, it doesn't mean we actually take action.