Emotivation for personal growth
What is emotivation? It's the process of using the awsome power of our emotions to motivate and stimulate actions that will lead to profound personal growth.
Emotions are extremely powerful. So powerful that sometimes we are afraid of letting them out. We lock them up, blocking the memories and even the love connected to them.
You can emotivate yourself by embracing the power of your emotions and then using that power to motivate yourself and others.
The inability to unlock our emotions restricts our ability to move on after a tragedy or loss. We fell the need to be strong for our families and become confused with the reflex of keeping our feelings locked up, believeing that by holding back our tears we are protecting our family and loved ones. This is simply not going to help anyone.
The freedom to cry without apologies, share memories, and express the deep love we have for our lost loved ones, is emotivation in action. We must stop waging a war against our feelings and simply give in to them. Now is the time to put those feelings into action and start moving forward.
For most of us, when we were infants and we cried, our parents ran to us and held us in their arms as we slowly stopped and our fear subsided. As young children, we continued to benefit from the free flowing emotions that allowed us to get up and go outside and play only minutes after a royal hissy fit. We were given a hug as the tears streamed down our faces. We screamed and yelled and slammed the door as we fled to our rooms. All it ever took to take the hurt away was some attention and a hug. The comfort of a parent or relatives arms that seem to absorb the feelings that are flowing out of your very being was enough to get over the crises. As we grow older we gain our independence and we begin to "control" our emotions, keep them bottled up inside. This is by far the greatest tragedy of our collective emotional experience. After leaving home are all of our emotions neatly packed away with our teddy bear and toys? How can we simply no longer need the warm embrace of someone who cares?
Men tend to have even a tougher time demonstrating their feelings becuase they are afraid to show signs of weakness. Feelings of weakness are pushed back as tears are fought and the aching dull chest pain begins to affect breathing. Then the fear and anxiety take hold and cripple all rational thought.
More... |
