Hi sweetheart. You look so beautiful tonight.
Hello handsome. You're such a great man.
Hmm...
What if you could have a relationship like this with your emotions?
It's actually possible.
Of course you're going to have fights from time to time...but it's possible to have a very healthy relationship with your emotions.
I'm not going to talk to you today about all of these happy fluttery emotions in your life. Nope.
I'm going to speak straight from the heart and talk to you about those deep dark places in your soul that rumble around. The pit in each of us that is blacker than black.
Anger. Suffering. Depression. Anxiety. Jealousy.
And lots of pain.
All of those are in each of us whether we would like to admit it or not. The only difference between us is how these emotions are brought out. For some it could be heartbreak. For others it could be losing a job or getting into a fight with someone.
None of us are free from these emotions. We all experience them.
That's what I want to talk about today...
Carl Jung, the famous psychologist once said, "The brighter the light the darker the shadow."
Following that logic, the more you tap into the "light" side of you the more access you also have to the darkness. Because as you stretch one way, you stretch the other way as well. That fact, right there, scares the hell out of most people.
But when we commit to going out in the world and actually living, to chasing our dreams and to being the best person we can truly be, we can allow our darkness and our light to coexist together without anything being wrong with it.
The skill to develop here is this...
Use every single shade of life to create something beautiful with the experience of living.
In our dark times, we must use those colors to express our more dangerous emotions that scare us. We have to put those paints on the canvas.
Create everything with it.
Express those energies and put them out there vulnerably for yourself (and maybe the world) to see. Do not trap them inside of you and let them create chaos inside your soul for too long.
Never stuff things down inside to avoid what's truly going on with your life.
And guess what? It always explodes.
Make something beautiful with the dark and the light.
Hello handsome. You're such a great man.
Hmm...
What if you could have a relationship like this with your emotions?
It's actually possible.
Of course you're going to have fights from time to time...but it's possible to have a very healthy relationship with your emotions.
I'm not going to talk to you today about all of these happy fluttery emotions in your life. Nope.
I'm going to speak straight from the heart and talk to you about those deep dark places in your soul that rumble around. The pit in each of us that is blacker than black.
Anger. Suffering. Depression. Anxiety. Jealousy.
And lots of pain.
All of those are in each of us whether we would like to admit it or not. The only difference between us is how these emotions are brought out. For some it could be heartbreak. For others it could be losing a job or getting into a fight with someone.
None of us are free from these emotions. We all experience them.
That's what I want to talk about today...
Carl Jung, the famous psychologist once said, "The brighter the light the darker the shadow."
Following that logic, the more you tap into the "light" side of you the more access you also have to the darkness. Because as you stretch one way, you stretch the other way as well. That fact, right there, scares the hell out of most people.
But when we commit to going out in the world and actually living, to chasing our dreams and to being the best person we can truly be, we can allow our darkness and our light to coexist together without anything being wrong with it.
The skill to develop here is this...
Use every single shade of life to create something beautiful with the experience of living.
In our dark times, we must use those colors to express our more dangerous emotions that scare us. We have to put those paints on the canvas.
Create everything with it.
Express those energies and put them out there vulnerably for yourself (and maybe the world) to see. Do not trap them inside of you and let them create chaos inside your soul for too long.
Never stuff things down inside to avoid what's truly going on with your life.
And guess what? It always explodes.
Make something beautiful with the dark and the light.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is a professional life coach at AYKME coaching. Dive into these great Very Uplifting Phrases or these Distance In Relationship Quotes to get some motivation to move forward!
No comments:
Post a Comment