Often - when facilitating a group - I mention that when we become full of feelings, that we don't want to sit down and talk to someone - and that is a dangerous place to be.Emotional literacy, being in touch with our feelings and being able to articulate them, is the first step in all this.
We need to feel and clock them first.
We all have trouble just sitting quietly if we're experiencing powerful emotions or we are in 'task.'.
That's because the body is riddled with emotion and is in a state of is in a 'call to action'.
These are the times when we listen least, awareness is diminished, and we can fail to love.
Also, when we are frightened, the awareness part of us, in terms of clocking our feelings, temporarily shuts down.
We are distracted by random thoughts when danger threatens.
We are flooded with the adrenaline because we need to fight or take flight.
Another option, automatic in humans, is to freeze, to be absolutely still and become "invisible."
The number one - when it comes to developed our awareness, plus the resulting behaviour, is to be aware of our feelings, at all times, but especially when they are starting to move from 'normal' everyday feelings.
Do you clock this?
Is it making sense?
