How’s your temper? Do you have one? (In fact, the answer is yes – most people have a temper, even if they don’t think they do). In our society the proverbial “bull in the china shop” gets all the Anger notoriety. However another prominent shade of Anger is the repressed complaining, blaming, whining, and irritated Anger.
How do you present yourself to the outside world? Personally, I used to hide my emotional pain and look normal enough. Professional, successful, measured. But behind that facade lived my wounded self.
I’m a big fan of the hugely popular site, Medium. So it was particularly fun when I was invited to be interviewed for the Medium publication, Authority Magazine about Emotional Intelligence.
I was recently emailing back-and-forth on a matter with someone who does tech work for our little team of Emotional Liberation merry makers. I was asking some questions in regard to handling a particular thing that we had to deal with. His answer was an unvarnished…
Yogi Bhajan. I never knew the man, although I did marvel at the brilliant stuff he came up with. He died in 2004 but built a franchise from the ground up called Kundalini Yoga. He was from India and came to America in the midst of the hippie revolution.
I often get letters from folks sharing their experiences… I call them “Field Reports”. And these field reports offer spectacular insights and musings that answer questions that many others have on their mind. So I’m sharing one with you today.
I was long embarrassed over my painful and difficult upbringing. There was nothing healthy or exceptional about my childhood. My parents divorced when I was very young – about 3. They hated each other and by extension my father was none too fond of me and moved far away and started a new family.
“I can only say from my experiences that the practice of your active meditation combined with intentional cannabis has been life changing.”
It never ceases to amaze me how others who discuss or experience my emotions work, can cut right to the chase and eloquently sum it up … often in a way I’d never think to express it!
Is it just me or do you also see a lot of people wrestling with anxiety (maybe you included)? The formal statistic is that about 18% of our population is affected by some form of anxiety – although those are the ones medically diagnosed.