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“Reclamation of Feeling” Mini Course!
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Lesson #1: Love is More Than an Emotion
In my journey to embody more love and to live with One Heart, I have discovered that my ability to access love has a lot to do with my relationship to emotions. And truth be told, that relationship can be complicated. I can be all over the place from full out numbing myself from painful feelings, to making my emotions mean something about me or others, to spiritually bypassing anything uncomfortable in effort to be positive or more spiritual and fix myself. I invite you to join me in this new series on the podcast I’m calling Reclamation of Feeling.
Lesson #2: The Land of Observation
In this episode, we are going to explore how to travel from one emotional state to another. We’ve all experienced what it’s like to have emotions we resist, where we wish in the moment to feel different. To feel better, whatever better is. But the challenge with emotion, is that you don’t immediately go from a low state to a high state. You don’t immediately go from feeling anger to feeling happy. Or from disappointment to contentment. Especially if you are actively resisting what you are feeling in the moment.
There’s too big of a gap between the two states, and today we are going to learn about what exists in the gap. It’s what I call The Land of Observation, and knowing about this place in the gap has been transformative in my journey of Reclamation of Feeling.
Lesson #3: Spiritual Bypassing
This is part 3 in a series I’m calling “Reclamation of Feeling”. In this episode, we’re talking about spiritual bypassing. This was a term I’ve only learned in the last few years, but I have experienced this emotional block my entire life, as I’m sure you have as well. Knowing what it is and what it looks like has been a key piece in learning how to regulate my emotions and move through things with more love and compassion.
If you’ve ever tried to change how you feel by doing spiritual tools, if you’ve ever tried to just be more positive and optimistic, if you’ve ever tried to just look on the bright side or be more grateful and sometimes experienced that these things didn’t help you feel better, this episode will explain why that can happen. You’ll be able to spot where you do this to yourself, and perhaps when you might project this onto others in an effort to fix emotions we judge as wrong or bad. What if there isn’t actually anything to fix?
What if there’s just things that need to be felt? This approach can make all the difference.
Lesson #4: Human Emotions Need Expression Not Supression
We have spent the last few episodes learning how to not bypass our feelings and in this episode we’re going to dive into how to express the emotions we’re avoiding in a healthy way. Because human emotion needs expression, not suppression. Yes, that means how to express anger, rage, disappointment, grief, sadness, jealousy, and more. Sometimes, feeling our feelings in silence and just being an observer is enough. And other times, those emotions need a bit more drama in allowing ourselves to feel with our whole entire body and not just noticing them with our mind.
Buckle up. I’m going to get really human in this episode.
Lesson #5: Respond from the Inside Out
I have had this wish for most of my life! I think I have imagined that someday there would hopefully be some epic moment of arrival where I was eternally happy and unaffected by emotional challenges because I’d finally figured out how to master the game of life and had transcended it.
If reaching that arrival is even possible, I am still a long ways out, and more so, I don’t know that I have ever met anyone who has ever arrived at perfect peace and stayed there forever afterwards, no matter what. All the people I know still get off balance…some are better than others at responding to those moments, but I don’t know anyone who is no longer triggered by anything. With that said, I think talking about the nature of trigger and response is a worthwhile conversation. Perhaps if we understood some of the mechanics of what happens when we’re triggered, we can, in the very least, get better at responding.
Lesson #6: Expanding Your Range of Emotion
Have you ever felt like you’re walking on eggshells in a relationship? We all know the feeling… trying not to rock the boat or create conflict. Yet, something vital feels missing—authentic joy. It’s like there’s an invisible wall between you and freedom. So, we stay small. We play it safe. We avoid the triggers, but we also shut out playfulness and joy. The space we live in becomes narrow, a tight corridor between extremes. We may convince ourselves we’re keeping the peace, but in truth, we’re living in emotional confinement. And this isn’t just in relationships with others—we can walk on eggshells with ourselves too.
In this episode, we’re going to talk about expanding our emotional range. Because life becomes so much richer when we open up to feel more—deeper, wider, higher.
Lesson #7: Totality and What it Means to be Alive
In this episode, we are going to explore a question. Typically, in social settings, we tend to ask the same questions of each other. How are you? What’s going on in your life? Or if it’s someone you haven’t met before, perhaps questions like, Where are you from? What do you do for a living? Do you have children? Are you married?
While these questions are important windows into someone’s life, I was recently asked a casual question at a dinner that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about for over a month. It stopped me in my tracks and made my heart beat fast. I’d never been asked it before, and because I didn’t have a rehearsed answer, it called me into deep contemplation. That question has sparked a search in me—and that search has added so much meaning to my life. Today, I’m excited to ask it of you.
Lesson #8: Be Joyful
You’ve probably heard it said that we are human beings, not human doings?
Sometimes we get so caught up in the DOING of life that we aren’t experiencing it from a place of being. And yet, the being is where the joy is. Literally.