An Emotional Dictionary

Addressing the ways emotions are cycled through the body and differentiating what this means for our life experience.

Emotions are timeless. There are no new emotions out in the ether to feel or discover. The emotions humankind has the capacity to feel have stayed the same for millennia. We are hard wired to feel emotions but we are conditioned in how we experience them. Emotions motivate us to react in specific ways that fuel how we relate to our existence. Emotions are teachers that show us how to find our self in the midst of relationships. They are a powerful tool for development and transformation.

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Regardless of whether an emotion is positive or negative, it is natural to want to to know the meaning behind an emotion. We want to understand the cause of the emotion or the fix for an emotion. A sense of happiness is likely to have us asking what is causing the happiness so that we can have more of it. A sense of grief or anger incites a desire to prevent or escape a situation. There is a natural in the moment assessment of emotion that connects the moment to the emotio…