ANNOUNCEMENT

Riffing on Realness™ is taking a sabbatical until September 1st. Juliet is going on to other things and I will introduce my new co-host, Jennifer Flynn, at that time. I thank Juliet for some wonderful riffing! What a gem she is and I wish her all the best in her new endeavors.

In this episode Carla and Juliet riff on getting real around emotions. What they’ve noticed about emotions while both going through some deep water. They get curious how we can seem to hold contradictory emotions within the same day or even hour.

Here’s what we explored:

• Feeling all kinds of emotions at the same time and how that doesn’t need to be a problem

• We can feel curious and terrified, happy and sad

• simply feeling emotions rather than analyzing and judging them, enables them to flow more freely

• when we get stuck, is when we get overly attached to the meaning we’re making of how we’re feeling

• we have an incredible capacity to simply feel our emotions

• we get in trouble when we split off from that and go into analysis

• there’s intelligence in our emotions, not meaning but intelligence

• in deep grief there is love

• in every emotion, at root, there is love

• as we get more of a sense of our deeper essence, we get kinder towards our experience

• what can stop us wanting to feel, is fearing losing control

• more and more places where we are trying to hold on become visible

• control dropping away is something Juliet fears and longs for all at the same time

• just out of sight, is a huge expanse of love

• control is all about fear and trying to keep the separate self, safe

• control gives us an illusion of safety but actually holds us prisoner

• hyper-analysis and judgment of our experience/how we feel can cause a whole lot of suffering

• and yet, we can be kind there too

• we’re noticing we can show up, feeling vulnerable and just see what happens, there’s nothing on it

• there’s a gentleness available as we understand the nature of our experience deeper and deeper

• when we don’t know, it can be a really fertile space if we can just rest there and not be freaked out by it

• when we find ourselves in a situation when we can see you have no control it can be a reckoning, a kind of fork in the road. Can we surrender?

• it causes a lot of stain on our system to try and hold on to control

• there’s a lot of freedom in being able to have emotions and let them move through you freely

• the nature of the human experience is ebb and flow: control and surrender; being in your heart or your head; fear and love

• the storm always runs out of rain, even when we feel off centre, we can know we’ll come back

• the awareness of something deeper begins to come more and more into the foreground

• our emotions are simply inviting us to get present, to come into the present moment and experience them

  
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