Emotional Discernment - taking power away from the fear
Emotional Discernment - taking power away from the fear
“We all have reactive emotional “buttons” - an internal emotional mine field - that cause us to have intense emotional reactions when a button is pushed, when one of the unhealed wounds in our psyche gets activated. Other people, life events, an old song, etc., can trigger these emotional wounds. Having these strong emotional reactions is not a sign that we are crazy, it is just a symptom of codependency. It is important to stop judging and shaming ourselves - or blaming others - for these reactions. It is vital to start learning how to disarm those buttons - how to heal our emotional wounds.” “This gut wrenching survival fear has been running our lives - whether we were charging through life in denial of it, or allowing it to totally dominate our reality. It is vital to learn how to start taking power away from this survival fear. Emotional discernment starts when we can detach from the feeling enough to take an honest look at reality. It may feel terrifying, may feel life threatening - but is that the truth?” “By starting to use some emotional discernment to recognize that the feeling of life and death urgency is not reality - it is just a feeling - we can start to take some power away from the fear. As we start taking power away from this mutant variety of fear, we can start to see ourselves and the situation with more clarity so that we can begin to disarm the emotional minefield within. We can start taking power away from those “buttons.””
This is the fourth in a series of articles focused on how to apply the Serenity Prayer in our lives by having the wisdom and discernment to recognize the things we do have the power to change.
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Emotional Discernment - taking power away from the fear was originally published online on the Inner Child/Codependency Recovery page that I used to edit for Suite101.com Directory on September 26, 2002. There is a list of - and links to - other articles recently published on that Directory on my Suite101 Articles page.
Originally published at https://joy2meu.com/emotional_discernment.htm