Hiding From Your Emotions

Most people don't fully feel their emotions and it takes its toll. Find out more in this mini podcast.

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Transcript

Hiding From Your Emotions

How do you know you’re alive?

There are lots of clues . . . but one of the biggest is our emotions.

If you’re anything like me, your emotions use your mind and body as their playground. And while they’re at it, there’s a certain aliveness happening inside you—something we don’t often notice.

That aliveness is fuel.

It pushes us to act. Sometimes in worthwhile ways. Sometimes . . . not so much.

One of the primary emotions is fear—and it has the highest octane. It’s probably the one we feel most. The late Dr. Dave Dobson used to say fear was the only emotion we’re born with. According to him, all the others are just variations on fear.

Tony Robbins took a different approach. He encouraged people to turn fear into power. That’s certainly one option.

But here’s the real question: what do you do with your fear?

If you’re like most people, you don’t actually feel it. You talk about it. And that does two things.

First, it waters down the aliveness fear brings with it.

Second, it keeps the idea of fear alive in your mind.

And what you do with fear is the difference between being alive . . . and feeling alive.

The walking dead are alive. They just don’t feel it. They talk about it.

Ignoring our emotions—or pretending they’re not there—is a prescription for misery. Most folks try to talk that misery away.

That’s like trying to talk a dog off a meat wagon.

A better lesson is learning how to use our emotions as fuel—fuel for living, and for aliveness.

You don’t need to figure out why you’re emotional. That just leads to more talking. As Dr. Robert Anthony told me some fifty years ago, “You’re never upset for the reason you think.”

What is useful is noticing where the emotion shows up in your body.

Where do you feel it?

Most often, it’s somewhere along the midline—from the throat down to the bowels.

Once you notice where it lives, give it your full attention. And then . . . just watch what happens.

When you actually feel the sensation of an emotion, you’re using its fuel. That fuel can move you into actions you might never take if the emotion stayed trapped in your head.

Now this isn’t about psyching yourself up. That’s usually a poor use of energy—temporary, shallow, and often counterproductive.

It’s just more talk.

But locating and feeling an emotion triggers aliveness. It allows you to move through the emotion—and often into a more peaceful place.

You may never get there if you don’t give your emotions the recognition they deserve.

So how alive are you?

It depends on how much attention you’re willing to give your emotions.

Hiding from them keeps 'em hangin' around. Acknowledging them—and feeling them in your body—fills you with the fuel that leads toward peace.

And from a peaceful state, solutions have a way of coming out of hiding.

All the best,

John