All of your emotions - especially your strongest and most difficult feelings - are
storehouses of unlimited energy and astounding wisdom. For instance, your rage can
give you superhuman strength, your fear can save you from certain death, and your
shame and depression can bring you to a complete (and often necessary) halt. Imagine
what you could accomplish if - instead of repressing your emotions and losing your
energy, or expressing them haphazardly and losing your way - you could marshal
their energies and use them to increase your awareness, heal your relationships,
and address your deepest wounds.
Emotional Genius takes you on a healing journey that delves, chapter by chapter,
into each of the cultural impediments to true emotional agility - our misunderstanding
of genius (it's not simply more intelligence), our disavowal of our emotional way of
knowing (our empathy), our disconnection from the quaternary of elements that can make
us whole and functional people, our overemphasis on unbalanced intellectual knowledge
(our minds can only function properly when we have open access to our emotions, our
spiritual awareness, and our grounded physicality), and the startling connection
between unhealed trauma and the state of our present-day world. From that empathic
understanding of the deep trouble all around us, a brilliant new view of emotional
incapacity, avoidance behaviors, addictions, distractions, isolation, trauma, and
dissociation emerges - and then leads to the specific healing and balancing practices
that address these troubles and make emotional genius (and genius in every area of life)
possible.
With the support of these self-healing and balancing practices, readers can then enter
the territory of the emotions with their feet under them and their wits about them -
and learn about the exquisite energy, information, and wisdom inside each of their
emotions - the Honorable Sentry of Anger; The Profound Mirror of Hatred; the Water
Bearer of Sadness; the Deep River of Grief; the Communion of Joy; The Intuitive Energy
of Fear; the Frozen Fire of Panic and Terror; the Relational Radar of Jealousy and Envy;
the Masking States of Apathy and Confusion; the Emotional Physics of Stress and Resistance;
and why Love is not an emotion at all!
Each emotion is explored in empathic terms, which includes an explanation of the energy
inside the emotion, what happens when it becomes trapped or overemphasized, how it works
within the psyche, how it should work with your other emotions (and why it doesn't),
specific practices and questions to help you welcome, work with, and honor that emotion - and
suggestions for how to honor that emotion in others (even if they don't know how to honor
it in themselves).
In this groundbreaking new work, empath Karla McLaren leads you on a step-by-step journey
out of emotional confusion, energy loss, and suffering, and helps you discover your soul's
deepest language and your own innate Emotional Genius.
(Product description written for paperback version)
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