Embracing Your Emotions: The Power of Surrender
Do you ever feel victimized by your own emotions?
Victimized by Your Emotions?
Out of control? Powerless? Dis-integrated? In a constant battle against yourself?
It's a battle that can't be won, because emotions don't go away unless and until we allow them to be seen, heard, and felt.
Emotions are not our enemy.
However, by judging them as bad or wrong and aiming to quickly banish them, we turn them into adversaries and mistakenly claim victory.
But this is fighting an un-win-able battle.
Your emotions are there for a reason – they are your body and mind's response to SOMETHING. And from the perspective of some part of you, it is dang IMPORTANT.
STOP fighting against your emotions
So the most effective way through is to STOP fighting against your emotions. To pause, see, hear, and feel those emotions. To acknowledge, and accept their presence.
To say to them, “You're RIGHT. I see you. I hear you in your feeling of powerlessness. You get to have a voice, now. Take my hand, and tell me more. Let's do this together.”
You become the victor when you STOP fighting.
It's victory by surrender, and it's a beautiful thing.
See you in the Rising Tide!
Anna
About the Author
Anna is a Mindset + Emotional Processing Practitioner, certified in EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique). Anna is a dedicated advocate for women's health and healing. Partnering with passionate change-agents, she emphasizes compassionate growth, self-directed learning, and trauma-awareness leadership. Leading by example, Anna inspires authentic transformations in health and business.
She's an Arizona-raised lefty who made it through 7 years of infertility with her spouse of 18 years. They now live an adventurous life with their two fiercely independent children, currently residing in Costa Rica while her husband attends grad school at the University for Peace.
