Compass of Emotions

This week I’m sharing with you an article that I have written for Psicología y Mente magazine about the topic of resistance and why we sabotage ourselves in our efforts to become our best version. The article has been written in Spanish. If you don’t read or speak Spanish, stay with me because I’m going to summarize the main points of the article in today’s podcast.

In the article, you will find information about:

-What resistance is.

-Why we tend to resist our growth.

-How we can recognize our resistance to change and grow.

-How to reverse this situation.

Enjoy it!

https://psicologiaymente.com/coach/maneras-dejar-de-autosabotearnos-resistencia-a-cambios

Last week I shared with you some of the interactions I had in my life that limited me and made me feel small and flawed.

This week I want to share with you a personal anecdote from the time I was about eight years old that was enough for my self-esteem to plummet.

I too have felt inadequate, ugly, physically clumsy, not very good at math, unattractive, not popular, and rejected. I too, like the ugly duckling, bought into the story that I was an impostor. Have you felt something like that? These imperfections weighed you down and you tried to hide them in some way in order to survive?

This week I’m bringing you the second part on Mindfulness. This time, we are going to focus on different practices that you can start on your own because they are super simple.

Sacred pause

Mindfulness meditation

Mindfulness groups

Write a mindful journal

Conscious Visualization

Mindful body care and movement

Key attitudes in the practice of Mindfulness

This podcast has been inspired by a client who told me, “I’d like to start practicing mindfulness in our sessions. It’s so fashionable nowadays that I’m intrigued”. I’m telling you this with a broad smile and sparkling eyes because when my clients ask me to dedicate some part of their sessions to Mindfulness, it makes my day. I’d also like to underscore or highlight my client’s words, “mindfulness, which is so fashionable”. It is clear that my client meant that Mindfulness is becoming more and more well known these days. Nevertheless, Mindfulness is a millenary practice that has its origins in Buddhism, Zen, Yoga, and Hinduism. In the west, mindfulness became super popular because it was applied within a stress reduction program, which has been a benchmark of mind-body medicine recognized by the National Institute of Health of the USA and by Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology, which is the one I have studied thoroughly and the one I commune with.

I wrote this article for Psicologia y Mente Magazine. We all experience rage, anger, sadness, and even despair when we want something, we work to achieve it, but there’s an obstacle in our path. The problem is not feeling frustrated from time to time but anchoring frustration as part of our lives and covering it up by taking up unhealthy habits or throwing in the towel directly.

I have a powerful meditation to share with you that will fill you with inspiration and will be a super powerful tool for you..

I’ve been told that I haven't talked about romantic love for a long time and it’s so true that I’m bringing you a podcast on the subject. When I sat down to think about how I would structure this post, I remembered all the love books I've read, all the romantic movies I've seen, and all the melodies about desperate lovers I've hummed. The title alludes to writer Pablo Neruda’s book because I believe that for every twenty love poems that we embody, we go through endless desperate songs. I wish my younger self, the one who went to therapy feeling distraught, the one who cried with so many fears, would have been told, “calm down, you'll see how everything falls into place”. I’m not talking about things falling into place magically, but about doing the right job on oneself, recovering our power, and falling in love with ourselves and with our life to be able to welcome another person later.

This week I have a double invitation for you. First, I’m going to offer you this podcast about our need to have everything under control, how much suffering that tendency brings about and how to overcome it. If you can read in Spanish, I’m also sharing with you an article I wrote in Psicología y Mente magazine (Psychology and Mind in English), which delves into the topic in depth and offers you concrete tools to free yourself.

In the northern hemisphere, September is the month children re-start school and parents return to their work after the summer break. The great number of external demands naturally triggers all kinds of strong emotions for kids and adults alike.

How do you feel when your busyness levels rise significantly?