Emotions are our body’s way of getting our attention, of telling us that we need to pause and check in.

In our society, we *become* our emotions (even in our language! “I AM angry” or “I AM sad”) and we often struggle to separate the experience of the emotion from the message of the emotion. This takes awareness and practice. It takes pause and being in check with your wounds, conditioning, and triggers. You’ve got to know yourself and be comfortable with what makes you uncomfortable in order to engage with emotion instead of becoming it.

As a society, we escape and numb and project and blame…instead of building a relationship with our emotional content and working with it. When we do this (consciously work with and develop a relationship with our emotions) and steadily build a practice of doing this, we can receive and respond to emotional content rather than sub-consciously react (and then numb or push away or project or blame or pick a fight or shut down).

This stuff takes awareness and practice but it’s entirely worth the effort. In fact, it’ll set you free.

Keep working on yourself.

Keep refining and learning and growing and being curious.

Remember and believe that you don’t have to be imprisoned by the human experience.

In fact, you’re here to allow it to teach you how to return to your soul.