The Journey to the Emotional Frontier Within - emotional defense mechanisms
The Journey to the Emotional Frontier Within - emotional defense mechanisms
“I had to become aware that there were such things as emotions that lived in my body and then I had to start learning how to recognize and sort them out. I had to become aware of all the ways that I was trained to distance myself from my feelings.” “We cannot learn to Love without honoring our Rage! We cannot allow ourselves to be Truly Intimate with ourselves or anyone else without owning our Grief.” “Emotions are energy. Actual physical energy that is manifested in our bodies. Emotions are not thoughts - they do not exist in our mind. Our mental attitudes, definitions, and expectations can create emotional reactions, can cause us to get stuck in emotional states - but thoughts are not emotions. The intellectual and emotional are two distinctly separate though intimately interconnected parts of our being. In order to find some balance, peace, and sanity in recovery it is vitally important to start separating the emotional from the intellectual and to start setting boundaries with, and between, the emotional and mental parts of our self.”
On this page is a column by Spiritual teacher/codependence therapist about emotional defense mechanisms such as speaking in the third person.
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Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls by Robert Burney is copyright 1995. Material on Joy2MeU web site (except where otherwise noted) is copyright 1996 thru 2021 by Robert Burney PO Box 1028 Cambria CA 93428
(The Column “The Journey to the Emotional Frontier Within” by Robert Burney originally appeared in the Information Press of San Luis Obispo California)
Originally published at https://joy2meu.com/emotional-defenses.htm