Oh those wonderful emotions ....

Ahhh, Emotions ....

Perhaps you can start by being curious about "actions," no harm to yourself and others, practice truthfulness and most certainly, Enjoy!

Let's start off with some "Key ideas" about emotions. Then to help guide a bit more, I've added some wonderful and fun emotions that you can play with. Remember, awareness is the key... Stand back and be your own observer. Listen to yourself and others with

"NOOOO JUDGEMENT"...

So, here we go:

1. Emotions are integrated thoughts and feelings.

2. There are Authentic and False emotions. Authentic emotions, when honored, have you feel more connected to yourself. When you can "express" false emotions you feel numb or disconnected from self. You can "express" all kinds of false emotions without ever feeling anything real.

3. Within authentic emotions there are constricting emotions and expansive emotions. Many of the constricting emotions have been collapsed with false emotions. For example: hospitality, blame righteousness and punishment (all false emotions) have been collapsed with anger. They are not the clean expression of the constricting emotion that is anger.

4. We've been so manipulated and battered by false emotion that we are wary and distrustful of constricting emotion.

5. The constricting emotions you refuse to feel you end up living. For example if you refuse to feel your loneliness you end up living it rather than moving through it.

6. Honor emotions because they are there. You don't need a reason to feel (We often spend time looking for WHY we feel something as an avoidance of feeling it)

7. Impact before ownership. Give yourself permission to feel the impact of another's behavior before taking ownership of how you created it.

8. Your emotional field creates a resonance, a field of vibration. That emotional field has impact whether you say anything or not. Your resonance attracts some realities and precludes others.

This is when we start getting creative. Here are several categorized emotions: Authentic, both expansive and constricting as well as false emotions... and remember, it's all good. Be kind and gentle when observing yourself and others. Perhaps it is Causality that can predict ones future ;)

Authentic Emotions: Expansive

Love, gratitude, happiness, trust, joy, passion, enthusiasm, excitement, ecstasy, ease, peace, triumph, satisfaction, glee, delight, contentment, grace, hope inspiration, awe, bliss, desire

Authentic Emotions: Constricting

anger, fear, pain, need, hurt, sorrow, disappointment, loneliness, terror, despair, frustration, aggression, hate, rage, embarrassment, anxiety, grief, humiliation, remorse, doubt, hopelessness, dread, indebtedness

False Emotions:

guilt, self-pity, martyr, righteousness, resentment, judgment, control, perfection, scarcity, worry, shame, greed, apathy, obligation, hostility, arrogance, blame, struggle, entitlement, competition, mobilization, envy, jealousy

"To attain true happiness, we must begin by transforming the mind's afflictions." ;)