Why Befriending Your Emotions Changes Everything - The Emotions Diary #13
The better friends you are with all your emotions, the more you can enjoy life as it happens
Let the Emotions Diary explain you, to you.
Hey there all,
A big part of undividing the world is undoing the divisions we feel in ourselves. And the Emotions Diary is an incredible tool for that.
My last two weeks have been all about Substack. With thousands of new subscribers, I’ve had waves of every emotion crashing together. It’s been scary and amazing. However, I landed back in a place of calm… which made me think, shouldn’t I be feeling something different about this experience?
So this week I asked, “Have I grown?” And the Emotions Diary had two great insights:
You’re always growing, never grown.
The real benefits of getting to know all your emotions.
Play the video to see what the Emotions Diary had to say. Let’s get undividing…
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING THE EMOTIONS DIARY
Whatever you can’t figure out in your life, you can figure it out in here. The Emotions Diary is the tool for undividing yourself - understanding why you do, think, and feel the things you do.
You’ll need:
A notebook
A pen
An open heart and mind
And the practice is this:
What - Write down what’s going on in your life that you want an answer to; a persistent feeling, a bad habit, not knowing why you did something, general confusion etc.
Ask - Let this formulate into a question. Sometimes the question itself suprises you, as in, oh yeah, that is what I want to ask. Also, you can go straight to the question if you have already know.
Wait - Relax. Let the universe do its work. Generally an answer starts coming within seconds for me.
Answer - Write down what it “says.” Don’t overthink, edit it, or interpret it while comes. Receive it like you’re taking dictation. Capture the tone.
And a final note is to dwell with the answer. Feel the layers of it land in you.
What a wonderful exercise...like a two way prayer. I appreciate your humility and your grace. When I practiced this exercise, in the end, came another question. One I will sit with today. One that will lead to the acceptance of this disowned part of me I am seeking to bring back into my entire being.
Hi Karl! I've been doing this sort of 'work' on and with myself for some years now, and - although they might not tell me to my face - others have noticed! If I, myself, have noticed, surely they have too. I've made it obvious that I'm on this journey through life to learn - both about the Universe (or whatever one calls it) and my relationship with it, and about I can be someone that others can rely on or come to for discussion/help. I won't go into that now, as that's another story or two (and more.) I usually say the same things as you've said when anyone asks me if I'm 'saved' or 'enlightened', or whatever. That 'place' is not a destination - it's a continuous state of being. This means that the whole of life and its constituent parts (spiritual, physical, emotional and psychological etc) is a growth process. It never ends. And it's great that way. And that's just how I have come to like it. I have become someone different from who I was (years ago or even yesterday) and I'm continuing the process of becoming the person I'm meant to evolve into over temporal existence.