The Ripple Effect of Significant Emotional Events
Let’s face it. We’re not in complete control. Sometimes things happen to us -- bad things. Sometimes we are victims, and our lives are affected negatively by the actions of others.
If that was the end of the story, it would be a sad, depressing one for many of us. But our lives are a journey that we can participate in. We have the power to rationalize, to learn, and to grow from the events that shaped our lives, even -- perhaps especially -- from the bad ones.
In today’s episode, we talk about significant emotional events -- about what they are, why they’re so powerful, and about the link between the physical body and the memory of these events. We learn that our body brilliantly suppresses significant emotional events until we’re ready to process, integrate, and release the negative emotions. Yes, when a bad memory comes flooding back, your body believes you’re ready to let go of the negative emotions surrounding that event.
I share a recent experience of the surfacing of one of my own significant emotional events, about how it affected my life and the life of my oldest son, and about how we’re working to learn from it and move on.
Finally, we discuss at affect and at cause. At affect is having an external locus of control. At cause is having an internal locus of control. Rather than living with a victim mindset, being at cause puts you in the driver’s seat to process events from your past, release negative emotions and limiting beliefs, and move on in a positive direction.
Being at cause involves looking at your life and asking…
What is my part in this?
How did I create this?
How is it that I landed here to being with?
What can I do to make the changes I want to make?
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Links from today’s episode:
- The Introduction Episode -- we talk about how NLP, Time Line Therapy®, and hypnosis are used in concert to create breakthroughs
- John Sarno, author of The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain
- “How to Release the Past and Return to Love” by Deepak Chopra
- The Emotion Code by Dr. Bradley Nelson
- Episode 4 -- the Unconscious Goal Stopper and direction filters
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