Emotional Inner Peace
The body is sensitive to energy and learns to adopt behaviors/patterns based on outside experiences. We do this to survive as infants and children; unfortunately, this learning style doesn’t change as we get older unless we become aware of our body and how external and internal stimuli affect us. A perfect example of this is watching an adult “regress” back to a childhood behavior such as a tantrum or being self absorbed. This regression is nothing more than the adult falling back into a learned childhood behavior. If the adult doesn’t become aware and change these patterns, the behavior becomes soil that feeds and grows new “adult” behaviors – influencing and directing the actions of the adult.
This learning system affects our emotional health as well. How many emotions can you recognize as your own? Can you differentiate your emotions versus others? Can you change your emotional experience and enjoy running different emotions in your body?
Let me share with you a secret to recognizing your emotions. They feel good to your body and you don’t need another person to trigger (or inflict) an emotional experience. Allowing joy to run through your body can be a conscious deliberate act. Running anger can also be a conscious deliberate act. Both emotional experiences are not a problem when you can recognize and own your emotions. Ownership also gives you freedom to change your emotional expression.
I’ve had people question me about anger being a “bad” emotion. I disagree with that belief. Your anger is never a personal problem; however, many people have adopted other peoples’ expression of anger so they are not running their anger. Anger is like a fire, burning away the emotional blocks we experience in the body. It’s always under our control and our body enjoys the experience. When our anger is expressed from a learned behavior, it’s not authentic to our body thus we don’t have control over the expression nor does it feel good to our body.
The more we go within and learn how to change our unconscious behaviors by deliberately recognizing and running our “real” emotions, the more we become self empowered and authentic.
Own your emotions, clear out dysfunctional habits, and be true to yourself.
Michael Spackman
inBody Dimension
