Hi babe you look beautiful tonight.
Hello handsome man. You look wonderful as well.
Hmm...
What if you could have a relationship like this with your emotions?
It's actually possible.
Of course you're going to have fights from time to time...but it's possible to have a very 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.
Anger. Suffering. Depression. Anxiety. Jealousy.
And lots of pain.
All of those are in each of us whether we would like to admit it or not. The only difference between us is how these emotions are brought out. For some it could be heartbreak. For others it could be losing a job or getting into a fight with someone.
None of us are free from these emotions. We all experience them.
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."
Following that logic, the more you tap into the "light" side of you the more access you also have to the darkness. Because as you stretch one way, you stretch the other way as well. That fact, right there, scares the hell out of most people.
But when we commit to going out in the world and actually living, to chasing our dreams and to being the best person we can truly be, we can allow our darkness and our light to coexist together without anything being wrong with it.
The skill to develop here is this...
Use every single shade of life to create something beautiful with the experience of living.
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 those energies and put them out there vulnerably for yourself (and maybe the world) to see. Do not trap them inside of you and let them create chaos inside your soul for too long.
Never stuff things down inside to avoid what's truly going on with your life.
And guess what? It always explodes.
Make something beautiful with the dark and the light.
Hello handsome man. You look wonderful as well.
Hmm...
What if you could have a relationship like this with your emotions?
It's actually possible.
Of course you're going to have fights from time to time...but it's possible to have a very 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.
Anger. Suffering. Depression. Anxiety. Jealousy.
And lots of pain.
All of those are in each of us whether we would like to admit it or not. The only difference between us is how these emotions are brought out. For some it could be heartbreak. For others it could be losing a job or getting into a fight with someone.
None of us are free from these emotions. We all experience them.
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."
Following that logic, the more you tap into the "light" side of you the more access you also have to the darkness. Because as you stretch one way, you stretch the other way as well. That fact, right there, scares the hell out of most people.
But when we commit to going out in the world and actually living, to chasing our dreams and to being the best person we can truly be, we can allow our darkness and our light to coexist together without anything being wrong with it.
The skill to develop here is this...
Use every single shade of life to create something beautiful with the experience of living.
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 those energies and put them out there vulnerably for yourself (and maybe the world) to see. Do not trap them inside of you and let them create chaos inside your soul for too long.
Never stuff things down inside to avoid what's truly going on with your life.
And guess what? It always explodes.
Make something beautiful with the dark and the light.
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.
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