Hi sweetheart. You look so beautiful tonight.
Hello handsome. You're such a great man.
Hmm...
What would it be like if you could have a relationship like this with your emotions?
It's actually possible.
Now of course you're going to have fights from time to time. However, it is possible that you can have a much more 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 a lot 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.
But none of us are free from these emotions.
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 as we truly commit to living as a human being, to experiencing everything that the world has to offer, we allow our darkness and our light to be with one another without there being anything wrong with it.
The skill to develop here is this...
Use every color of life, dark and light, to create something beautiful with your pain.
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 down your feelings and pretend to be something that you're not.
And guess what? It always explodes.
The dark. The light. Make something beautiful with both.
Hello handsome. You're such a great man.
Hmm...
What would it be like if you could have a relationship like this with your emotions?
It's actually possible.
Now of course you're going to have fights from time to time. However, it is possible that you can have a much more 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 a lot 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.
But none of us are free from these emotions.
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 as we truly commit to living as a human being, to experiencing everything that the world has to offer, we allow our darkness and our light to be with one another without there being anything wrong with it.
The skill to develop here is this...
Use every color of life, dark and light, to create something beautiful with your pain.
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 down your feelings and pretend to be something that you're not.
And guess what? It always explodes.
The dark. The light. Make something beautiful with both.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is a professional life coach at AYKME coaching. Dive into these great Uplifting Quotes http://thewordsofencouragement.com/uplifting-quotes/ or these Long Distance Relationship Quotes http://thewordsofencouragement.com/long-distance-relationship-quotes/ to get some motivation to move forward!
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