August 5, 2013 Emotional Mastery Series #8 If you really want to master your emotions -self-actualize. That is, make real (actualize) your best version of you so that you become as […]
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DON’T JUST FEEL, DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE FEELING – Meta Reflections 2013 #34
July 29, 2013 Emotional Mastery Series #7 What is an Emotions (#1, 2 & 3) Pseudo-Emotions (#4) Emotional Continua (#5) Emotional Tolerance (#6) If an emotion […]
Read moreEMOTIONAL CONTINUA – Meta Reflections 2013 #31
Having provided an operational definition and description of what an “emotion” is (#1-#3) and that no every emotion is a real emotion (#4), I now want to present another perspective for thinking about emotions- one that will assist in experiencing more emotional mastery.
The perspective is to view any given emotion on a continuum. If you think about your emotions in terms of a continuum, you can get a fuller and richer view of your emotions. If you position any given emotion (the basic emotions) on a continuum, you thereby make it possible to begin to identify the other emotions that cluster around that one. This will enable you to see the relationship between similar emotions and that will lead you to see how one emotion can shade or evolve into another emotion.
Read moreEMOTIONS- RIGHT AND RELATIVE – Meta Reflections 2013 #28
In the past two articles, I have identified five of the seven truths about emotions, and with this one the last two truths. As a kinesthetic sensation enriched by meaning (cognitively) an emotion exercises influence on us to get us to move (motion) out (ex) from where we are. As a difference between map-and-territory, these mind-body systemic experiences create energy, motivation, and vitality within us. They are therefore important, but not as ultimate truth, but as relative truth indicating what meanings our bodies are attempting to actualize. As somatic registering of our meanings- they indicate the meanings that we are feeling.
Read moreGETTING CLEAR ON WHAT AN EMOTION IS – Meta Reflections 2013 #26
Just this past week I presented the Seven Truths that we Speak to Emotions. In Neuro-Semantics, we present this when we work with the Crucible Change Model, the Meta-Stating Troubling Emotions pattern, the Emotional Mastery training, and various other trainings. These ideas are also in numerous books, Unleashed, The Crucible, and Meta-States. Several suggested that I present the material here on Neurons, hence this series.
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