How does childhood trauma affect you? Can trauma cause you to be out of touch with your emotions?
Most of us are aware that our past affects our current life. Our past can leave us with painful emotions and beliefs that are not supportive. Some of us can even lose touch with our emotions all together.
Have you last touch with your emotions? If so, there is an easy and safe exercise in this post.
Did you know that emotions have a secret language all their own? Did you know that you already speak the language of emotion?
We have not been taught to pay attention to our emotions as sources of information. We just enjoy the positive emotions and we try to manage, stuff, or cope with the unpleasant emotions.
What if your emotions have something important to tell you?
In my last posts, I have been discussing how your false identity can hold you back from the life you dream about.
One of the most important aspects of your identity is what I call your spiritual identity. It is important to have a connection with something greater than yourself.
Read on to discover if you are in touch with your spiritual identity.
In my last two posts I have been describing your emotional identity. You can think of your identity as your relationship with yourself.
Do you have a good relationship with yourself? Or, like many of us, do you have a mixed relationship with yourself? Sometimes you feel good about yourself and other times you judge yourself as wrong or lacking in some way.
When you feel bad about yourself, this is your false identity speaking.
Do you believe that your emotional wounds only affect you? Do you realize how much your wounds can hurt your relationships?
Your past affects every relationship you have. You learn how to relate to others as you grow up in your family, go to school, and interact with your childhood friends. Anytime you were wounded as a child you bring that with you into your adult relationships.
Many times we blame others when we feel hurt. Are you ready to try a different approach?
Recently I had a client who was out of touch with his emotions, yet he wanted to work with his emotions. He told me that everything he tried recently was too rational. He felt like he needed something different.
I explained the poetry of emotion process to him and he was eager to try it. He said, “This sounds like just what I need.”
When we got started, we ran into some problems. He was out of touch with his emotions and his body.
Are you out of touch with your emotions?
Beliefs can limit you or empower you depending on the belief. We’ve all heard the old saying, “If you believe you can’t, you can’t. If you believe you can, you can.”
We’ve all heard stories about people who did the impossible just because they believed they could or didn’t realize they couldn’t.
Are you aware of your beliefs? Do you know how your beliefs are affecting your success and happiness?
Are you in emotional jail? Do you feel trapped by “shoulds?” Are you still trying to be the obedient son or daughter so you will fit in?
We create our own boundaries with limiting thoughts, emotions, and beliefs. We build walls around ourselves that are so high we cannot see possibilities.
Are you ready to reclaim your true self?
Are you celebrating yourself or judging yourself? We often hear the old saying: “Is your cup half empty or half full.” Are you focusing on your half empty cup?
How you view yourself and your life can make a huge difference in your level of happiness. A simple shift in perspective can change your world.
Being kind to yourself is a great way to celebrate yourself. Would you like to see your cup as half full?
In my last two posts, I defined emotional personality and gave you some steps to steps to discover your personality: both true and learned or false.
Now, we are going to explore how your emotional personality affects your life. Your false personality was learned in early childhood and has been your constant companion ever since.
Since your emotional personality was learned, it may not reflect your true self. You have more choices than you realize.
You can choose your true personality.