Emotions, who needs them? find out about your inner guidance.

We were all born as emotional sailors, dropped on the ocean to discover new lands and explore the unknown.

We were born into the water…we were born with the ability to sense and feel.

We were born with an inside compass directed to our purpose in life, held with our intuition.

Our intuition is rooted in our ability to feel.

Emotions and feelings are like water to our bodies.

We are 60% water…

The world is about 70% of water.

Our emotions and feelings respond to the movement of life around us.

They are helping us to adapt, shift and move in the best way possible.

They help us through rough times as they keep the needed softness in us; to allow change to flow without resistance. They enable that which nourishes us to be absorbed and that which is dead in us, to be washed away.

When we repress their movements in us, we become somewhat of sea-sick-sailors.

Some of us tend to throw (them) up by bursting into anger and rage.

Or maybe by being overly emotional (panicked), unable to contain them. Fear them and get overwhelmed by them.

Some tend to “faint” in the corner after being asleep for the whole ride.

Many times, our repressed emotions do not like it.

They are not willing to be ignored, reduced, or postponed.

They cannot accept being feared, as they know that all they want is good.

They are a vital part of our experience, our human presence, and our connection to the world and ourselves. They are also a vital part of our survival and thriving ability: through them, we are able to perceive what is good for us and what we need to distance ourselves from.

We were well trained in ignoring them, and we are surprised when they try to be noticed or act up…

As such loyal friends, you can imagine how upset they are when we ignore or see them as disturbances.

Would you be happy to be treated in the way you treat those aspects of yourself?

Wouldn’t you be upset as well?

What would you do in order to maintain your dignity and rightful place in the world, if you were treated like this?

Sometimes those repressed aspects of ourselves, start to shout loudly at us. They create some havoc inside or an unpleasant physical experience of pain or other difficult intensity so that we will finally pay attention.

So that we will stop pushing them away.

They may come raging in when we least want them to.

They insist on being felt, seen, and taken in.

Resisting and fighting them, weakens us and creates a sense of helplessness and stress.

Other times, they may be so upset and hurt from being ignored for so long, that they may simply strike. Not giving us a chance of feeling anything. Numbing our hearts and leaving us with our functionality only.

But they cannot leave us alone completely. They come to the rescue when we face a crisis or a loss…But if we then do not take the chance to embrace them, we will face a bigger inner drought later on.

Looking around, it may sometimes seem that instead of learning how to master the oceans of life, we have learned how to fear it and develop that sea sickness…instead.

Your captain hat is waiting…. Your pole position on that boat is always kept for you if you are willing to remember that you are an emotional sailor….

You will benefit greatly if you could train your “sailing abilities” daily.

Having that awareness, you will find your stability and clarity quicker, when you encounter a storm.

Next time, when you get struck by a wave of an unexplained emotion, or feeling and a strong physical response to it as well, remember that you are meant to sail those seas of intensity.

Remember that these are the waves of the ocean splashing at your face, entering your eyes, and making you forget that you are being carried to a new land.

All you need to do is first start with choosing to have them back on board.

When you take a moment each day and bring that choice to the forefront of your mind.

Then take a few deep breaths while choosing to drop the resistance to anything you feel.

Declaring that to the oceans of life.

You may immediately feel a softening in you.

A wave of sweet excitement and an expansion that can shift the way you perceive life and the space around you.

Remember that when you set sail, you cannot predict the ocean.

When you set sail you respect the ocean, knowing that whatever it brings with it, it will always carry you to new lands, and more often than not, it will connect you to who you are and what is so important to you.

See the span of your day, as that ocean.

See yourself as that old sailor that lets the ocean guide them.

Very quickly you will feel the intensities that you tend to fight with.

Stay with them.

Breathe.

Put your hands on your chest and belly, and try again and again to find in you the attitude of welcoming them, and giving them space within your body.

You can then take every day one aspect of your emotions and ask it to guide you and teach you something new about it and yourself.

Make a list of some to be able to choose easily:

Anger, love, happiness, sadness, shame, joy, satisfaction, fear, jealousy, frustration, enthusiasm, appreciation, guilt, blame… and so on.

To gain back their power and navigation ability, you will have to make sure that you are, again and again, trying to relax into them. To now immediately act upon them. Give them time to show themselves in and for you.

When you do that, you will find yourself acting differently.

Take a week to do that, and see how much more calmness and presence you will gain.

How quickly will you be able to move through states, in which you tend to get stuck or overwhelmed, and how many new lands you will discover?

Enjoy sailing and discovering new lands,

Anna

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