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When our emotions are perceived within this limited scope of
language it can significantly inhibit our ability to listen to
what we are feeling and to look more deeply for the root cause
of any kind of emotional distress or difficulty that we may be
facing.

This very black and white terminology automatically tends to
raise anxiety whenever we feel anything that we perceive as
bad and so contributes to us turning up the intensity volume
and effectively ‘doubling the emotional load’ in what was
already a challenging situation.

So today I wish to gently challenge any internal perceptions
that you may hold in your mind about your emotional states,
and I would like to invite you to redefine and reclassify
your feelings.

I will still use two categories with just two different headings,
but rather than the black and white, good/bad,
positive/negative version, my two headings are going to be
classified as:

‘The Easy, Comfortable Emotions’ – versus - ‘The Uneasy,
Uncomfortable Emotions’

It’s not difficult to identify either of these categories.

The easy comfortable camp is full of the happy, relaxed,
joyous, pleasurable emotions; the uneasy uncomfortable camp
is full of the more challenging, difficult feelings we have such
as fear, guilt, anxiety, and anger.

None of these feelings and emotions are bad.

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