In this episode I explore the concept of “emotional nuance” talking about how my experience of numbing out my emotions throughout my life has created a necessity to understand my emotions differently than most people. What started as a kind of “dysfunction” became an intentional process of learning how my body and my mind process emotional nuance.
I draw wisdom from the book “Beyond the Self” coauthored by Matthieu Ricard and Wolf Singer, a book that bridges neuroscience and Buddhism.
Other subtopics that arise:
- How I was disconnected from my feelings
- How “we all feel differently”
- The problem with broadly categorizing emotions
- The neutrality of mental states
- “Opening the door” for emotions
- Titration and knowing your edge
- Contradictory emotions can coexist
Song in the intro- "Light of the Mountain" by Brandon Tilt
I acknowledge that I learn, grow and heal on the unceded ancestral lands of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm , the Katzie, the Stó:lō and the Tseil-Watuth First Nations. These lands were never abandoned nor surrendered by those with the ancestral rights to steward and protect these lands.
I honor and respect the elders, the children, the land stewards, the land protectors, the medicine keepers, and the men and women of all Indigenous nations.
Huy ch q’u (thank you) to those who support the indigenous communities and actively decolonize their minds and spirits.
Aho Mitakuye Oyasin, All my relations.
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