Episode Summary:

In this episode of The Grief School Podcast, Sharon Brubaker explores the transformative concept of balancing positive and negative emotions. She challenges listeners to embrace the idea that our human experience is meant to be a balance of both and explains how understanding this balance can increase our power and ability to effect change in the world. Sharon provides insightful reflections and practical steps to help listeners create emotional balance on purpose.

Key Takeaways:

•   Understanding the balance of emotion can increase your power in the world and your ability to change it tenfold.
• Embracing both positive and negative emotions as part of the human experience can lead to a more balanced and less negatively charged life.
• By not resisting negative emotions and instead creating, allowing, and understanding them, we can reduce their impact and foster a healthier emotional state.

 

Concepts Discussed:

1. Thoughts Create Feelings: We generate our emotions through the thoughts we entertain.
2. Balance of Emotions: The human experience is a blend of positive and negative emotions.
3. Emotional Control: We have the power to create, allow, and resist emotions.

Journal Questions:   Identify Negative Emotions: What are some negative emotions you have experienced recently? How did you react to them?

Positive Outcomes from Negative Situations: Think about a positive outcome that emerged from a negative situation in your life. How did the balance between the positive and negative play out? Handling Negative Emotions: How do you typically handle negative emotions? Do you resist them, allow them, or try to change them?

  Regular Positive Emotions: What positive emotions do you experience regularly? How do they influence your daily life?

  Overwhelming Negative Emotions: Reflect on a time when you felt overwhelmed by negative emotions. What thoughts were you having, and how did they contribute to those feelings?

Creating Emotional Balance: How can you create more balance between positive and negative emotions in your daily life?

  Personal Meaning of Balance: What does the concept of balancing positive and negative emotions mean to you personally?

  Increasing Power through Balance: How can understanding this balance increase your power and ability to create change in the world?

Additional Resources: 

  Connect with Sharon Brubaker: Website | Instagram | Facebook

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