Below are the best resources we could find featuring karla mclaren about honoring emotion.
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Are you struggling with anxiety? If so, you’ve probably tried the usual options—distraction, repression, medication, exercise, or just trying to ignore it. But anxiety evolved to help us.
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In McLaren’s view, we typically perceive emotions as problems, which we then thoughtlessly express or repress. She advocates a more mindful approach, where we step back and see our emotions as sources of information.
We work with nutrition and exercise to increase our energy, but we ignore the richest source of energy we possess—our emotions.
Empathy is a skill and a talent that you can develop at any stage of your life. If your empathy is too intense, you can learn to calm it down—and if your empathy is very muted, you can learn to increase it in healthy and sustainable ways.
Emotions―especially the dark and dishonored ones―hold a tremendous amount of energy. We’ve all seen what happens when we repress or blindly express them.
I don’t know what happened to emotions in this society. They are the least understood, most maligned, and most ridiculously over-analyzed aspects of human life.
You may have seen children’s books that sort emotions into 4 simple categories: Mad, Sad, Scared, and Glad. That’s too simplistic, but it’s actually a good place to start! If you can understand those 4 categories, you can learn to identify and work with all 17 of your emotions!
There are 4 simple keys to becoming more skilled with your emotions, and the first is to stop thinking of emotions as positive or negative!
DEI is Dynamic Emotional Integration®, a non-clinical approach to emotional awareness, healthy empathy, and social-emotional education. DEI is a trailblazing approach to the emotions as vital aspects of intelligence and social awareness.
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