"To energy, emotion is emotion..."
- Emily Maroutian
(in her book, The Energy of Emotions)
Let us say, I make a time box of 2 hours to be spent with my family. It's a Saturday evening, pizzas are ordered, soup is on the stove and ice cream is setting. Now I don't feel like being there at that party. What can I do with this situation? I do want to be there but my energy is low. I feel like avoiding everyone and just sleep in my room. Just shut down.
To charge back myself, I can choose to do some small acts of love, kindness, compassion or generosity. It can be as simple as taking care of a pet or calling a friend to thank them for the things they have done recently for you or it can be any small donation to an NGO. It may be a small act to generate the emotion of love and compassion but for energy, emotion is an emotion. You will soon realise that once the energy button of a particular emotion is triggered then it does not distinguish between small or big, routine or special. Energy doesn't reason for our feelings. It simply multiplies. We are a home for all our emotions and thus we can use these triggers to call any of the emotion we are in need of by using the energy trigger.
Once I trigger my emotions of love and compassion, I will see how being with my family that evening is no more a boring or unenthusiastic activity. It suddenly looks fine to be there. Slowly, by being with all and further leveraging on the activated emotion of love the evening is transformed, for myself and for everybody else.
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