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Originally Posted by SuperStar  I've been playing with this new idea recently, and it seems like the key to real emotional mastery. It's that thinking intellectually, analyzing your emotions will never bring you full understanding and peace with them. You must go underneath the rational thinking and FEEL them. How do you do that? You concentrate on your physical body whenever you have an emotional reaction - you ask yourself where in your body you feel it. Is it in your heart area? Your stomach tightening up? Butterflies? Lump in the throat? Face scrunching up? etc. This will increase your sensitivity to those emotions so that you *know* when an emotion is controlling (or wanting to control) you, and you will then have the choice to let it control you or not. That is the path to emotional mastery.
Anyone agree/disagree/have any more insights about this? |
Understanding exactly what emotions you're feeling and why is only part of it. Discovering how to eliminate or overcome those emotions is much more difficult.
But I definitely agree that emotions can be felt in a very physical way. I can't think of any more physical emotion than guilt--it's so unpleasant it's almost painful. And of course love...
