Week 3
Chapter 5: Emotional Integrity
Awareness and Expression of Feelings
- Express your emotional truth through “just saying it”
- Use clear feeling language
- Repressed emotions are destructive, a path to self-victimization, and most misunderstandings
- 4 Basic Feelings: Mad, sad, glad, scared
- Exercises - Appendix 2
- How to Identify emotions in the body
- Visualization 1: Where’a-it-at?
- Developing emotional awareness
- Visualization 2: Into the Woods—An Inside Job
- Recognizing our own feelings gives us the power of choice
- Accepting ourselves helps us to accept others
- Emotional gender stereotypes cause a disconnect from true internal feelings
- Both men and women experience a full range of emotions and can do so at similar levels of intensity
- Neither men nor women are better masters of emotional intelligence, awareness, or expression
The Critic: Part I
(A.k.a. Censor, Complex, Negative Parent/Teacher, or That Voice That Tells Me I’m Crap)
- Your inner critice will always pop up when you face a new challenge
- Your under-expressed self is a survival mechanism
- Your repressed self can be uncovered through creative means
