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If you are uncertain about any of your feeling states, then the
most appropriate ‘call to action’ in this moment may be to
firstly gain a greater understanding of this emotion, whilst
giving yourself permission to take time for reflection before
engaging in any kind of decision-making.

If any of these feelings are so extreme in intensity that you feel
completely overwhelmed or ‘dis-abled’ by them, then the ‘call
to action’ may be to give yourself permission to seek support
and if genuinely needed, to seek independent professional
support in talking things through to help to identify the most
appropriate way forwards.

New York Times bestselling Author Katherine Woodward
Thomas uses the term, ‘Inner Detective’. I love this language.

When we notice, we immediately create the possibility of
becoming an observer of our own experience.

We create the possibility of becoming our own inner detective:
the investigator (and therefore the solver) of our problems.
When our mind notices our emotions with enquiry and
interest, compassion and care, combined with knowledge of
our individual emotional states, we can begin to unravel the
nature of the information they are bringing us and to use this
to inform the choices and the decisions that we face within our
lives on a daily basis.

In the next Chapter, we will begin our exploration of each of
our most challenging emotions.

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