Tag: feelings

  • Seeing Other…..

    Seeing Other…..

    …..is not something that can be easily done. We easily assume that seeing another is something that we can all do, but I don’t think you can necessarily see another until you have an established and mature sense of identity and self. I was working on a writing project –…

  • The Words of Emotions

    The Words of Emotions

    So there are some emotions that sit in the area of the brain where there is no language or words processed – just the emotions. Have you ever felt something and then in talking to someone or in someone explaining their feelings – you connected with it in a way…

  • Honest and Spontaneous Expression

    Honest and Spontaneous Expression

    I’m really not super good at this. Are you? Do you have the ability to just express what it is you’re feeling right at that moment? I’m not that great at this. I need to learn it. I also need to learn to to express it in a way that…

  • Deep Hurt

    Every experience shapes and forms us. There’s no escaping it. All of our Deep Hurts have a powerful influence on our identity. When you are conscious of your Deep Hurt, you react and respond to it accordingly. Some of us push it down. Some of us charge after it head…

  • Books aren’t so Good with Solutions

    Books aren’t so Good with Solutions

    There are tons of books out there that tell you how you’re feeling.  They will affirm your thoughts and your situation.  They might give you what they did to remedy the situation but it was what they did years ago.  It takes a while to get the book published so…

  • Knowing Your Heart

    Knowing Your Heart

    Ok.  I’m not thinking about the feelings and emotional part of the heart.  I went on a mtn. bike ride with my good friend Bill.  He wears a heart monitor when he goes on a ride.  He keeps an eye on his heart rate as he rides up the mountain.…

  • Validate My Feelings

    Validate My Feelings

    I am currently reading Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together.  Here ideas have been swirling in my head – especially since I based alot of my thinking off of her last book. One of the concepts that she explores is the idea that our feelings aren’t validated until it is acknowledge either…

  • Love

    Love

    I have been thinking about it, but I am having such a hard time find words to describe my thoughts about it.  I am not talking about some romantic or marriage kind of love – although it fits.  I’m thinking about about how it makes us do all kinds of…

  • Projected Pain

    Projected Pain

    So I took this picture while I was waiting for a left turn.  Sometimes there is someone standing there hoping to get some change from the people waiting to turn left. If you look closely at the sign it says – Fight addiction in my family & I get screwed…