What is your emotional landscape?
First, let me define what I mean by “emotional landscape”.
Your emotional landscape is the range of emotions that you normally feel; the ones that are familiar to you and in which you habitually reside. It’s the place where you’re emotionally spending time.
For example, if you’re the kind of person who tends to look at the past with regret and melancholy, you might be prone to emotions such as sadness, guilt, nostalgia, and resentment. Or maybe you’re someone who suffers from anxiety, worry and stress, all emotions linked to a narrative of the future with a fearful lens.
Given where you’re hanging out, how do you think your emotional landscape is creating your future?
Emotional Freedom
Many people aren’t aware that they can actually choose their emotions.
Your bodily sensations, emotions, and thinking are intimately connected. Your body provides the context, in which emotions and thoughts occur. For example, if you have a tense body, you’re more likely to have tense thoughts/emotions.
However, no one and nothing can directly create an emotion in you. It’s not people, places, and circumstances that are generating your emotions, but your thinking about them. In effect, what you think, you feel, even if it’s unconscious thought.
This is an important distinction. And as we begin to see the interplay of thoughts, emotions and our bodies, we begin to gain awareness and conscious choice about how we feel.
Emotional Awareness
It’s all the rage to live in the present moment these days! Perhaps it kind of went out of fashion for a while, but it’s definitely coming back in! It seems strange to me that there is a lot of talk about this. Since on one level it’s impossible to not be in the present moment. Unless of course you’ve invented time travel, in which case, you probably are an avid chrononaut from the future, here to reveal to us the secrets of the Universe!
Of course, what people are referring to is the ability for you to be in the present moment physically, but your mind to be engaged thoughts are the past or future.
Naturally, the sensations you feel in your body and the emotions are in the present moment. What we feel, is felt now. We cannot feel in the past or the future.
Many of us are “lost in thought” a lot of the time. We are unaware of what our bodies and our emotions are telling us, and how we are creating our future through them.
It’s like we are trying to bypass the “feeling” intelligence in ourselves, through thinking.
Your Emotional Landscape creates your Future
Your thoughts and emotions over time are held in the present, in your body and in the pathways of your brain. The body is like a landscape, literally sculpted over your lifetime by the rivers of thought and emotion. When you encounter a situation in the now, which triggers an out of the ordinary reaction, metaphorically, the water is flowing down the same old channels without much regard to the current inputs.
Instead of experiencing a situation purely in the present, it is in fact coloured by the past. In a form of “Groundhog Day”, we are in fact re-living the past in the present over and over again.
But by noticing how we feel, the kinds of thought we have, and the relationship between them, we can begin to change our emotional landscape. We can bring emotions into awareness, feel them fully, letting them run their course and release them. Thereby, we release the past, instead of perpetuating them through our thoughts.
Reverse engineer your emotional landscape for an alternate future
All this sounds a little depressing if you have an intention to create a new reality different from the past. But I would like to offer you some hope!
Could it be possible to also work the process in reverse, and for your emotional landscape to create an alternate future?
The body is a landscape, literally sculpted over your lifetime by the rivers of thought and emotion.
Just as a past thought/emotion pattern can be re-lived in a present situation, maybe it is possible to generate new thought/emotion in the present to trigger a future situation that resonates with this pattern! This would be akin to forging new pathways by encouraging the water to flow in a different direction. Thereby changing the landscape of the manifest.
You could say that this is a kind of visualisation technique, but in fact it uses not images but feelings.
To do this, you need to be able to wipe the slate clean, to somehow not be driven by the baggage created in the past. This is where living in the present moment comes in. By experiencing the moment directly as is, without any interpretation, you access a space of pure awareness, without any prior story attached, giving you more freedom to choose.
By generating the emotion you wish to feel in the future, in the present moment, you can orchestrate yet to be lived experiences to come into being. We are not only preparing the ground for ourselves to experience the future situation, but we are pre-living the future in the present. Since we are already feeling the emotion we wish to feel, this is the opposite of living in the past.
In effect, we are literally re-calling a new future towards us! That is mind-blowing!
Release the Emotions holding you back
Do you want to understand how you are creating your current reality? Get to know the unwanted emotions that you’re holding on to and release them with kindness and compassion. Begin to live into the future you desire!
Are you ready to see what you’re not currently seeing?
Get in touch to see what you need to do to feel your emotion. Release them, and get moving with what you want to create in your life!
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