Hi, everyone!
I am in the midst of reading the book "No Ordinary Moments" by Dan Millman. He also wrote the book "Way of the Peaceful Warrier" and I love his philosophy. I have had this book for a few years and have read bits and pieces but never the whole thing. This morning, I was flipping through it and found some interesting quotes about emotions. One of the quotes reads:
What you bring forth
out of yourself from the inside
will save you.
What you do not bring forth
out of yourself from the inside
will destroy you.
The second quote, the one that really caught my eye was:
The body weeps the tears
that the eyes refuse to shed.
I would strongly encourage everyone trying to deal with getting in touch with their repressed emotions to read the chapter in this book titled "Accepting Emotions." This is about TMS!!! This could have been written by John Sarno! Dan Millman writes "Expression - the next level of emotional health - entails a leap into the unknown, requiring great courage. We find the courage to take that leap when our denied emotions so frustrate our Basic Self that it "misbehaves" to get our attention, creating PHYSICAL PROBLEMS (my capitalization).
Eventually, these symptoms of denial get bad enough that we recognize we need to question old assumptions - to do something different. Then, perhaps with the aid of a therapist, a counselor, a friend, a seminar, or a book, we begin to contact long denied feelings; we discover that how we feel has a lot to do with who we are. Over time, we come to release old beliefs and judgments - to accept ourselves and our emotions. We come to express how we feel at any given moment, whether or not it seems "nice."
Mr. Millman goes on to say "While expressing feelings sounds like a simple, straightforward process, as we know, simple doesn't mean easy. Strong forces within us, as well as outside us, conspire to fight our freedom to know and express how we feel." He further states "Our Basic Self, like a young child, feels emotions intensely. If our Conscious Self denies those emotions because they are "not reasonable," our Basic Self will eventually throw a tantrum that will beat us bloody."
One more interesting paragraph reads: "In deeper cases of denial, we selectively forget incidents and feelings in an attempt to protect the psyche from traumatic experiences it may perceive as overwhelming or unacceptable, such as physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. As a means of protection, however, forgetting offers a permanent solution no more than sweeping dirt under the carpet keeps the room clean."
Check this book out as another tool to getting in touch with repressed emotions. I'm going to read the whole thing, from the beginning!!!
Laura
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Interesting book that discusses emotions
Posted - 05/09/2005 : 13:57:14
