The FAMILY OF EMOTIONS
We are our emotions, positive, negative, productive, nonproductive. They exist within us simultaneously. We choose to access the ones that serve us at any particular time.
Joy and sadness, for example, are like your children. You love them all and at different times, you feel more in the mood for one rather than another. We tend to put pressure on ourselves by thinking we need to “get over” negative emotions like sadness. We are aught that there must be something wrong with us if we cannot get past the sadness in our lives.
But sadness is one fo your emotional children, just as joy, depression, envy, regret. And if your entire family is sitting around the Thanksgiving dinner table, they may all be talking at once, trying to get your attention. But you know you can only converse with one at a time. Similarly, your emotions are all there for you, but you have the power to access the one or ones that serve you at any given time. If sadness is required, you will access sadness, but the other emotions don’t disappear. Just like the rest of your family, they will be there when you need them
Just as your family is a tapestry of the varied personalities of your family, so does the variety of emotions within your psyche reflect the variety of emotions in your repertoire. If the majority of your family members evoke pleasantness or positivity, the colors of your tapestry with reflect this. Consequently if your family relationships are mainly negative, the color of your tapestry will be darker and more somber, similar to your emotional profile if you choose to live in a psychic world of negative emotions.
My message to you: accept and love ALL your emotions, as you would ALL of your children and family members. They are you! Don’t feel you need to get past negative emotions, they are integral parts of your emotional family!
In health,
Dr. John Monaco
MONACO Wellness
(813)541-6440
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