We know this, but how do we apply our knowing to affect real change in our lives?
Recently, I’ve been getting a better understanding of how this bond works.
I've been intentionally focusing on my thoughts and emotions. This summer, automatic thoughts were much discussed in my therapy, trauma-related emotional work related to my #TBI. My therapist had me identify what feelings bubble up when I think certain thoughts.
That homework is not for the faint-at-heart. I had to sit in thoughts that were negative and produced ugly feelings with the hope that I could write new thoughts and attach new feelings to them. I think this homework will be never-ending because our brains work to keep us safe and will tell us seemingly anything to protect us.
Thoughts and emotions affect behaviors, actions, and responses.
How you think and feel influence your attitudes and postures, thereby affecting how you enter a situation, handle a work problem, respond to a comment, and the list goes on.
Which are all reflected in the results you get.
We are taught- want to change our results, we need to change our behaviors. Easy to agree with this. What I am learning though, for long-term change, you need to go deeper. Work on clearing your emotional patterns, the ones tied to your thoughts.
Did you know that emotions and feelings are stored in our bodies at a cellular level?
What comes to my mind is- “I’m stuck in a rut and don’t know how to get out of it.” It is as if your thoughts and emotions have paved roads in your mind. And to re-pave roads, ones that may have been there for years or even decades, takes work.
I am learning in my research that essential oils are effective in reaching parts of the brain that hold emotions. Did you know that smell is the only way to reach the limbic system (where emotions are stored) in the brain? Which makes essential oils powerful tools to help unlock emotional patterns.
1lb, 1 inch, 1 hot flash and One Emotion At A time
Amy Laux
Midlife Conqueror
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