#1 Bonafide Way to Create ANY Sustainable Life Change

Anger…

What comes up for you when seeing that word?

Many associate it as being bad or dangerous.

I know for the vast majority of my life that was at least the case for me.

It’s an emotion that I remember being highly frowned upon throughout my childhood, to the point of me learning how to be an expert in repressing it.

If I felt high levels of fear, guilt, shame, embarrassment, or betrayal, I’d do my best to either:

A.???Put on a fake smile as if I was never emotionally affected by anything

B.???Beat myself up for the uncomfortable emotions in which I was experiencing

To be honest, this was a major blind spot for me (and I’ve grown to recognize that it’s one that affects many others too).

While I was so focused on the goal or outcome of what I desired (primarily centered around my professional career), I kept running into the same wall, over and over and over again.

This really angered me, though my relationship to being able to actually truly ‘feel’ and communicate or express that, was non-existent.

While the pattern or theme in my life started with the repression (or unconscious denying of impulses) around certain emotions as anger, fear, or sadness… it then graduated into the suppression of them (which is the conscious denying of different emotional impulses).

If you can relate to this within your own life’s experience, please know that you’re not alone.

Many of us (especially men) are taught to wear a mask of stoicism (aka always being calm and non-emotional), in order to portray masculine strength and leadership at all times.

However, real leadership is being brave and courageous enough to truly ‘be’ with and feel all emotions (including anger, fear, sadness, joy, and sexual feelings) until completion.

As it’s only when we’re clearly able to do that for ourselves, that affords us the capacity to be able to ‘be’ with and model, as well as hold the presence for others to do the same themselves.

And from that place, more creativity, connection, personal fulfillment, and authentic happiness is birthed.

Thank you anger.

Though I’ve found you to be difficult to love at times, I’m grateful for acknowledging your existence, learning how to truly ‘feel’ and express you, and even deeper than that, learning how to truly embrace and love up on you too ???? ??

If you'd like to go deeper in knowing why emotional awareness is the #1 Bonafide Way to Create ANY Sustainable Life Change, then you may receive value in reading my latest article.

In it, I share the exact process on how to:

1.????Clearly identify different emotions

2.????Create a practice to completely calm your nervous system

3.????Move through the uncomfortable emotions that keep you stuck (in order to elevate into your next level)

Cheers to you and your reading of it :- )

#1 Bonafide Way to Create ANY Sustainable Life Change