Invalidation of Feelings as Emotional Abuse
by
SusanPosted
Sat 14 Mar 2009 3:16pm
This is the first in a many part series on Emotional Abuse
“Can you close the window? I’m cold”
“You can’t be cold.”
“Gerry’s late again and it makes me angry.”
“Oh chill out, there’s nothing to be angry about.”
“My dog died and I feel very upset about it.”
“It’s just an animal, get over it!”
“I don’t like [...]
Read on »
Guiding Your Emotions: Feel Good!
by
Nicole M.Posted
Sat 06 Dec 2008 1:18pm
an Emotional Guidance System to help us understand what we are thinking.
Truly, there are only two emotions that we need to be concerned with. All feelings will fit in one or the other category. One emotion is good; this emotion makes an individual feel good. These are feelings of love, joy, happiness, optimism, passion, faith and hope. These feelings tell
Read on »
learning to feel those hard emotions
by
DianaPosted
Mon 31 Aug 2009 10:11pm
to face our emotions. I know that emotional emptiness so well. The food addiction specialist said that we eat instead of feeling the emotion and I had to sit with that statement for a few minutes because learning to feel is something I'm working on.
Lately I've been overwhelmed by emotions. I don't blog too much about my personal life and I know some
Read on »
Emotional Eating: Feeding Your Feelings
by
Jill KnappPosted
Wed 14 Jan 2009 8:40pm
that food will meet your need. When you eat because you are actually hungry, you are open to many options.
3. Emotional hunger makes you feel like it needs to be satisfied right away with a food you crave; physical hunger will wait.
4. Emotional eating can leave behind feelings of guilt; eating when you are physically hungry does not.
5. Even when
Read on »
How Do I Know Exactly What Emotion I'm Feeling?
by
Arielle B.Posted
Tue 19 Jan 2010 12:00am
hours early! (It's only Tuesday night.) Hope you can get something from it; it's a very simple and rather short video this week.
Topic: "How do I know exactly what emotion I'm feeling?"
As usual, click to view on YouTube, as embedding has been disabled.
I promise I'll get back to all the reader questions this week. I have a bunch waiting
Read on »
Feeling Real Emotions
by
Jaymee ..Posted
Tue 27 Jan 2009 7:55pm
, teaches you to be suspicious of the highs because it is all going to come crashing down. Self preservation dictates this damping down of emotions. If I were to allow myself to feel all these emotions full force I would be living in a padded room by this point.
The downside to all this is that these occasions when I want to feel this incredible joy, I have
Read on »
Feeling Better Fast: Moving Up the Emotional Scale
by
Dr. Elisabeth KuhnPosted
Wed 27 May 2009 10:19pmfeeling better, one step at a time.
You can find more details about the emotional scale in their book “The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent.” (Esther and Jerry Hicks).
Of all...), your bad mood or feelings of stress and despair may feel quite justified by outer circumstances. And yet, we all know that we cannot usually control those circumstances
Read on »
Feeling Gray, Not Blue, Using Colors To Describe Emotions
by
Karen BastillePosted
Tue 09 Feb 2010 10:04pm
to describe emotions, such as being ‘green with envy’ or ‘in the blues’. Although there is a large, often anecdotal, literature on color preferences and the relationship of color to mood and emotion, there has been relatively little serious research on the subject”.
The researchers created a wheel of colors of various intensities, including shades of gray
Read on »
Feeling Good: Free Metta Practice and Yoga for Emotional Balance
by
Diane C.Posted
Tue 08 Mar 2011 6:42pm
Hudson and did a happy dance (literally):
Being out in nature, yoga, and living in gratitude make me feel good. What makes you feel good?
For those of you with yoga on your list (which is pretty darned likely, since you're reading this blog), here are a few ways to find good feelings through yoga:
Free 30-Minute Metta Yoga Practice
I'm
Read on »
Patients with amnesia still feelemotions, despite memory loss
by
Kathy J.Posted
Tue 13 Apr 2010 7:02am
conversation but even so, the warm feelings associated with the experience can stick around and boost their mood.
For the study, published this week in the Early Edition... watched, they retained the emotions elicited by the clips.
Justin Feinstein, lead study author and a UI doctoral student in clinical neuropsychology, says the discovery has
Read on »
