What We Covered...
Emotional freedom can be cultivated by identifying what matters to you, expressing it, practicing mindfulness, exploring different emotions, and focusing on small progress towards emotional well-being and fulfillment.
- 00:00
Emotional freedom means identifying what matters to you and expressing it, focusing on it deeply, and building a menu of choices to refine your skills.
- Emotional freedom is having a deep sense of what matters to you and being able to feel those things as a part of your life experience.
- Express the part of you that is not being expressed, even if it's not the same as someone else's expression.
- Identify what matters to you emotionally and focus on it for a period of time.
- Learn deeply what it means to you and bring it into your relationships by building a menu of choices to activate and refine your skills, rather than getting distracted by multiple goals.
- 05:23
Practicing meditation and tapping can help quiet your inner critic and enhance emotional freedom.
- Rick had a craving to manage his own emotions and found that an essential part of him resonated with being calm and confident, which he was able to activate through meditation.
- Practicing skills such as tapping, meditation, and journaling helps in becoming more calm and confident in various aspects of our life.
- Knowing what matters to us and focusing on our inner essence can change the experience of our inner critic and enhance our emotional freedom and thriving.
- Let's explore and refine our intentions together, and encourage each other to share thoughts and feelings.
- Learn how to quiet your inner critic by gaining clarity on what matters to you and tuning into one thing, even if it's difficult, through techniques like EFT Tapping.
- It's important to acknowledge and prioritize our own emotions, and we have the power to choose what emotions matter to us without feeling the need to always be ecstatically joyful.
- 15:44
Focus on small progress and observe the steps, check in with your body, mind, and spirit to express emotions without fixing everything, savor experiences, tune into eagerness, explore anger for clarity and passion, and embrace contentment.
- Observing Adira taking small steps reminded me to focus on small progress.
- Check in with your body, mind, and spirit to express and acknowledge your emotions without trying to fix everything.
- Savoring experiences can change one's perspective and bring more joy to everyday tasks.
- Tuning into eagerness can change one's relationship with everyday experiences.
- Contentment can be a relief and some people want to feel the whole range of emotions, including those that were once forbidden.
- Exploring anger and its activation can enhance clarity and passion, but some individuals may not experience anger as part of their energetic makeup.
- 24:43
Tune in to your emotions and find emotional freedom by exploring different tones and being present.
- The invitation is to pick an emotion and articulate to oneself the full range of tones associated with it, without being limited by societal expectations or norms.
- Rick discusses personal emotional states and the deeply personal decision-making process.
- Stop telling people they don't smile and focus on what brings you joy.
- Find your inner sense of wise fearlessness and balance to achieve emotional freedom and adventure.
- Explore the difference between being present and being upbeat, and suggests using the app "How We Feel" to explore different emotions.
- Practice tuning into the energy of your surroundings.
- 34:20
Identifying emotions and practicing mindfulness can help improve mental health.
- In the future, people may have brain implants to prevent depression, similar to cutting wires on a keyboard to remove octaves. But that kind of radical change isn't needed in order to live a thriving life!
- Identifying specific emotions such as apathy, exhaustion, loneliness, and despair can help individuals honor their true emotional state and find a vibration that feels authentic even when feeling down.
- Practice savoring an emotion that feels worthwhile to spend time on can help accomplish amazing shifts without worry and slumps.
- Thriving emphasizes the importance of being present and enhancing mindfulness.
- Focusing on generosity and gratitude can help us appreciate and notice the positive aspects of our lives.
- Take a 10-minute break and share your thoughts about what's coming up for you.
- 42:27
Connecting with nature can enhance our emotions and help us feel more alive, but we must also learn to embrace and handle our negative emotions.
- Focus on enhancing your emotions and imagine the benefits it would bring to your life.
- Wise fearlessness is the embodiment of evaluating risks and taking action from knowing rather than fear, allowing for a state of being in nature and feeling its beauty.
- Connecting with nature can help us feel more alive, but we often suppress meaningful emotions like anger, which will be explored in the next workshop.
- Be present with things that activate one's sense of beauty and find emotional states that are not negative.
- Being playful is a clear and non-anxious inner experience that can manifest in different ways, and it is possible to cultivate it even if one did not have the opportunity to play as a child.
- Caring and emotional diversity are important aspects of neurodiversity, and being comfortable with one's own anger requires identifying and developing skills to handle it harmlessly.
- 53:47
Focusing on what matters to you can lead to emotional well-being and fulfillment.
- Focusing on what matters to you can lead to a cascade effect of emotional well-being and fulfillment.
- To feel grounded and unflappable, focus on choosing the feeling of being resourced and use different techniques to maintain that feeling.
- Developing calm and confident energy is essential to becoming unflappable in the face of challenges.
- Suppressing playfulness is common when feeling the need to be on guard.
- Taking in beauty without distractions can be a freeing and energizing experience.
- Those who are dying also want to feel something beautiful! We can still access rich, emotional experiences while acknowledging the other challenges in our lives.
- 01:01:58
Choose a true and appropriate response while avoiding suppressing emotions, and learn to express and cultivate unique emotional experiences with support and guidance.
- Being responsive is a practice that involves hearing a request or being aware of it and choosing a response that is true and right for oneself while also being responsive to the other person.
- Suppressing emotions, such as anger and eagerness, can lead to negative consequences and should be avoided.
- Learn to express and cultivate the unique emotional experiences that make up our "heartistry" with support and guidance.
Join the discussion by commenting below or in the community center.