Posts Tagged ‘emotion’
BALANCE
“Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and faster when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals and values are in balance.”
Brian Tracy
THE HUMAN CONTEXT
“Resisting the human context is at the root of grungy emotions, self-defeating beliefs, self-sabotaging strategies, and survival paradigms of life.”
David B. Wolf
EXPECTATIONS
Excerpt From A Coaching Letter Written By David B Wolf
… To grow we want to challenge ourselves, to play a big game with our lives. This entails expecting a lot of ourselves. These expectations, transformed into practical and grounded commitments, drive us forward to satisfying accomplishments and internal development. I guess the downside of expectations is if we become emotionally attached to them. Emotional attachment to expectations can form a sort of self-imposed prison of disappointment, sadness, discouragement, etc. If we find that we don’t meet our expectations, that is an opportunity for a wonderful learning experience. There is a cycle- commit, act, learn. Whether we succeed to fulfill our expectations or not, we can definitely succeed in creating a valuable learning experience, if we approach life from a perspective of discovery and opportunity. Of course, such an approach is not meant to minimize the full intention we apply to our commitment to achieve and surpass expectations. So, this approach of learning from each experience is distinct from the stance of emotional attachment to expectations. If we are emotionally attached, then if we fall short we may descend into grungy states of guilt, inadequacy, etc., instead of positively and constructively learning from the situation…
From Vrinda
“Satvatove was a super-cleanse. David and Marie create a space where it was okay indeed encouraged to just be myself. Such a relief to simply be accepted and encouraged no matter what was brewing inside me.
What I found is that even the most horrible clawing, deeply draining emotion was diffused and put to ease by the acceptance and enthusiasm that vibrated in the air. I loved to see each group member break free from their ‘stuff’ and shine and be FREE.
The feeling I had standing before you all in all my glory and all my self-sabotage was freeing and an unrivalled experience.”
Vrinda Devi Sheth – dancer, artist and artistic director
Satvatove, Advanced Seminar Experience, 2010
Experience Of The Soul
“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of the truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.”
Arnold Bennett
