Hi babe you look beautiful tonight.
Hello handsome man. You look wonderful as well.
Hmm...
What if you could have this type of relationship with your emotions?
It's actually possible.
Now of course you're going to have fights from time to time. However, it is possible that you can have a much more healthy relationship with your emotions.
I'm not going to tell you about happy emotions today. Not a chance.
I'm going to talk about the dark pit in each of us that harbors those deep dark emotions we hate talking about.
Greed. Anger. Depression. Fear. Hate.
Pain.
We all have access to these emotions. The only difference between each of us is that they are brought out in many different ways. For some it could be heartbreak. For others it could be the loss of a job.
But none of us are free from these emotions.
That's what I really want to talk about today.
Carl Jung, the famous psychologist once said, "The brighter the light the darker the shadow."
If we really dive into that logic, the more you tap into the lighter sides of you the greater the access we have to the darkness. Because when you stretch one way you stretch the other as well. This scares most people to death.
But when we have committed to going out into the world and actually living, to chasing our dreams and to being the best person we can possibly be, we change in ways we never predicted. Along with that light comes the shadows and we must be able to coexist with our own shadow no matter how dark it may be at times.
There's a great skill to develop here...
Use every color of life, dark and light, to create something beautiful with your pain.
In the darker times of our lives, we must use those colors to express and share our experience as it is. We cannot hide from the shadows. Rather, we must use those shadows to our advantage.
Create as much as you can with these times.
Express everything inside of you. Express the brilliant chaos in your soul.
Stuffing things down or avoiding what you are actually feeling is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.
Create something beautiful on the canvas of your life. Create your best self using the "worst."
The dark. The light. Make something beautiful with both.
Hello handsome man. You look wonderful as well.
Hmm...
What if you could have this type of relationship with your emotions?
It's actually possible.
Now of course you're going to have fights from time to time. However, it is possible that you can have a much more healthy relationship with your emotions.
I'm not going to tell you about happy emotions today. Not a chance.
I'm going to talk about the dark pit in each of us that harbors those deep dark emotions we hate talking about.
Greed. Anger. Depression. Fear. Hate.
Pain.
We all have access to these emotions. The only difference between each of us is that they are brought out in many different ways. For some it could be heartbreak. For others it could be the loss of a job.
But none of us are free from these emotions.
That's what I really want to talk about today.
Carl Jung, the famous psychologist once said, "The brighter the light the darker the shadow."
If we really dive into that logic, the more you tap into the lighter sides of you the greater the access we have to the darkness. Because when you stretch one way you stretch the other as well. This scares most people to death.
But when we have committed to going out into the world and actually living, to chasing our dreams and to being the best person we can possibly be, we change in ways we never predicted. Along with that light comes the shadows and we must be able to coexist with our own shadow no matter how dark it may be at times.
There's a great skill to develop here...
Use every color of life, dark and light, to create something beautiful with your pain.
In the darker times of our lives, we must use those colors to express and share our experience as it is. We cannot hide from the shadows. Rather, we must use those shadows to our advantage.
Create as much as you can with these times.
Express everything inside of you. Express the brilliant chaos in your soul.
Stuffing things down or avoiding what you are actually feeling is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.
Create something beautiful on the canvas of your life. Create your best self using the "worst."
The dark. The light. Make something beautiful with both.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is a professional life coach at AYKME coaching. Dive into some great uplifting quotes clicking here or read more long distance relationship quotes.