20. Learn This Modern Emotional Super Power

We have pain, physical or emotional, and then we have thoughts about our pain. Our thoughts are like volume knobs that allow us to turn up the volume on our pain or turn down the volume.

When we feel the pain of a negative emotion, we can respond in three different ways: (1) avoid it, (2) resist it, or (3) allow it. Our instinct is often to either avoid it or resist it, but so much unnecessary suffering can be avoided if we actually allow it.

I refer to this skill as a modern super power, and it’s what I help my clients work on. Listen in as I give you methods to allow yourself to feel emotions, even negative ones, and notice how they feel. If we allow those emotions to be there and even welcome them rather than try to avoid them or resist them, you will stop fearing them.

I also want to mention that I am teaching a class on Thursday, December 8th, 2022 at 7 p.m. central time. It’s called A Whole New Way to Achieve a Goal and is something that will come in handy to anyone who is looking to make changes in 2023. It will be a live, virtual event and will require you to register on my website.

Show Highlights

• about the class I am teaching soon

• the relationship between physical pain and emotional pain

• the three ways we can respond to negative emotion

• how allowing negative emotion can be beneficial to us

• the distinction between thinking about emotions and feeling them
  

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