| Working with your emotions can be challenging, | | | | humanity. Anger can give you power. Fear can |
| especially if you're an emotional person. If you can | | | | protect you in many circumstances. Even depression |
| consider that transforming and healing your emotions | | | | can show you the underbelly of its opposite sunny |
| is a path to life transformation and growth, it | | | | reality so that you can balance the dualities of life |
| becomes a practice that takes your life to higher and | | | | and eventually move beyond the duality to the |
| higher levels. Some emotional experiences are | | | | wholeness of all things. You might see that through |
| relatively mild, and others can be huge life challenges. | | | | your own suffering, you can now feel profound |
| Here are some tips for transforming your emotions. | | | | compassion for people all over the world who are |
| 1. Look at the purpose of your emotional experience. | | | | suffering. You might feel a profound wisdom that |
| Is there something it's trying to teach you? | | | | shines a laser beam on the meaning of some |
| Everything you undergo and everything you feel is an | | | | experience in your life. Maybe that divorce, for |
| opportunity for awakening to a higher level of life. | | | | example, is exactly what both your souls need for |
| 2. Look back at your life, and see how past | | | | greater growth and self-knowledge. It is more than |
| experiences have been instructional. You may see in | | | | likely that the death of a dear one or the loss of a |
| hindsight how the pieces of the puzzle fit together, | | | | job or a physical illness are all teachings, opportunities |
| how experiences that have grieved you or made you | | | | to move away the clouds, to be more present and |
| angry or terrified were exactly what you needed to | | | | more awake. |
| both deepen you as a soul and help you to move on | | | | 5. Look at How to Heal and Transform Your |
| in your growth. A relationship that ended might have | | | | Emotions |
| been just the chance you needed to move to a | | | | The steps in deep inner healing are: experience, |
| different city or to another person, and to find | | | | release, and transform. |
| something with which your soul is more aligned--or at | | | | * First allow the experience of your emotions. So |
| the deepest level, to awaken you to the essential | | | | often we want to run away from our experience. |
| experience of your spiritual self. | | | | Our culture offers palliatives, drugs, escapes, and |
| 3. Look at your emotional patterns. We all have | | | | entertainment so we don't have to experience |
| emotional patterns that are scripts we came here to | | | | ourselves. And yet, there is great value and richness |
| experience. Some of us are very angry. Others are | | | | in allowing yourself to come to know what is the |
| cowering and fearful. Some are very controlling. Still | | | | true content of your life. |
| others are filled with deep sadness and grief. Some | | | | * Next, release the experience, using special |
| of us feel all these feelings, though usually some | | | | techniques or just awareness and deep breathing. |
| theme predominates. Most of us were born with | | | | * Then transform your emotions by taking a leap in |
| these feelings and we came here to transform them. | | | | consciousness to an expanded level of knowing, in |
| 4. See how you can benefit from the emotions | | | | which you're in touch with love, wisdom, light, peace, |
| you're experiencing. You might see that there's a | | | | forgiveness, and compassion. This ability to move |
| great plan, a built-in system of spiritual transformation | | | | your consciousness is a gift you've been given. You |
| and emotional healing in everything you experience. | | | | came here to know this other level of life, often |
| Sadness can open you to the heart of all of | | | | through your deepest trials. |