The Importance of Controlling Our Feelings

The Importance of Controlling Our Feelings

Feelings are universal.  Everyone has feelings.  Not everyone is able to control their feelings.  Those who understand their own feelings, and the feelings of others do well.  Those who understand how to control their own feelings and channel them into positive motivational outcomes are most successful in life and do even better.  Daniel Goleman wrote a book entitled Working with Emotional Intelligence that is written on this very premise.  It is a powerful read and has given me much food for thought. My Emotatude Children’s series will help children work to build their own emotional intelligence.

As I continue to write about Emotatudes for children I constantly imagine what our feelings look, smell, taste, and move like.  This series is delving deeply into my emotional life.  It has sent me on a world search for what makes us human.  How are we all alike?  It is my belief that every human on the planet experiences feelings.  Perhaps our cultural constructs paint them.  Rarely do we share them openly for everyone to see.

Maybe if we start looking within and honoring our inner space we will find how connected we are. Maybe then we will feel safe enough to share our own feelings.  It is so interesting that I painted Kanipshuns in little swirls as they move about in and out of our raging feelings that are too often pent up and not dealt with.  Then later I read an account of someone describing their very own angry hurt feelings as swirling about in her head. Have studies been done about this?  Are emotions electrical impulses in our brains? Do different emotions move differently?  We are all vibratory beings.  Maybe understanding our Emotatudes and the way they resonate in our lives will help us all live more fulfilled happy lives.