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, it could be that 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.
Given where you’re hanging out, how do you think your emotional landscape is creating your future?
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 in the past or future. But have you noticed that it’s not only your conscious mind that’s time travelling, your body is also stuck in time, dragging the past into the present.
Your Emotional Landscape creates your Future
Your thoughts and emotions over time are in fact held in the present of your body in the pathways formed in your brain, for example. 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 initial inputs. Instead of experiencing this 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.
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.
Reverse engineer your emotional landscape for an alternate future
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 coming 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? When you get to know the unwanted emotions that you’re holding on to, and release them with kindness and compassion, you will begin to live into the future you desire!
Are you ready to see what you’re not currently seeing?
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