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Getting In Touch With Your Emotions

Posted Jul 29 2011 by Jonathan Brink in , , with 3 Comments

In my work with coaching people, I often find that people are afraid to feel.  In learning to avoid the negative emotions that produce pain, we inadvertently learn to turn off our emotions entirely.  Much of the journey as a human being is often relearning how to feel.

Each week, I will post a photo and ask two questions.  What is the emotion you see in the photo?  What do you think is the story behind the emotion?

Engage with me.

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Jonathan BrinkI am an business development and communications consultant. I am also the senior editor and publisher for Civitas Press. I recently published, Discovering The God Imagination: Reconstructing A Whole, New Christianity. (Civitas, 2011)View all posts by Jonathan Brink →

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=717550281 Jonathan Marasco

    Ah your point is so true. I spent years at a soul-sucking job where the way I dealt with it was to decide I didn’t care about what happened. That way I wouldn’t be hurt any more. Then I got a new job (mercifully) and months later began to realize -surprise! I didn’t care about anything. I feel like I am still climbing out of that.

    My 6-year-old son makes this face all the time. He is excited to play with me.

  • http://theeternaldance.blogspot.com/ Lynelle

    he just got some very good news that he is excited about.  it is a surprise that he was not expecting, like he gets to go somewhere special, or someone special is coming to visit.

    Emotions.  controlling them or being controlled by them . . . they seem so powerful . . . inescapable . . . not easily changed.  
    I think I need to hold them more lightly?  not fret that I’m anxious?  sit with what is.  remember it is part of my humanity.  (and God said that is good)
    Observe.  Learn.  don’t judge self.
    This too shall pass.

  • David

    This is a good one !  Looks like he just received a gift he’s been wanting and finally received….or he’s justs been scared by his sister playing and needs to run but is stuck for just a moment !

    Children are so free with emotions and somewhere along the line we lose that because of life’s hurts and disappointments or we are scared to show who we really are because of fear of not being accepted by others.  I thnk this also applies to our relationship to God as well. 

    Emotions are hard.  Probably more so for us men (although I know that’s just a generalization) 

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