This week we are
spelunking, exploring the experience, of emotions. We are tapping into the original operating
system of feelings. We’ve engaged an
exercise of being curious, asking why we feel what we feel. Not just once, but several times trying to go
deeper into the cave of feelings.
Yesterday we named and noticed that there are six main emotions that all
of us experience in the course of a week, or day…or sometimes a rollercoaster
of an hour. I asked you think about
times you felt fear, anger, joy, sadness, disgust, and surprise recently.
Those six do not
exhaust all the emotions there are. Some
suggest there are over 400 emotions a person can feel. You can feel calm, centered, content, eager,
bliss, cynical, edgy, courageous, compassionate, curious, forlorn, embarrassing,
powerless, remorseful, weary, and worn out.
I encourage you to click here for the Hoffman Institute
for a list of the 400 emotions. Read
over the list, especially the ones in bold print, and ask yourself when the
last time was you experienced that emotion.
When was the last time you felt:
Acceptance/openness
Alive/joy
Angry/annoyed
Courageous/empowered
Connected/loved
Curious
Despair/sad
Disconnected/numb
Embarrassed/shame
Fear
Guilt
Hopeful
Powerless
Tender
Unsettled
Grateful
Fragile
Stressed/tense
I pray this longer
list might continue to guide us to feel the feelings that are stirring and
swirling within every human right here and now.
Amen.
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