Movement and the Search for Meaning; Let Emotions Be Your Guide - Damian Fearns - Episode 90

Damian Fearns: Let emotions be your guide."In modern society most of us don’t want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us."Thats a quote from Thich Nhat Hanh that resonated with me looking back through old notes and it relates to this weeks podcast. Many of us are missing something at the moment in all the"good work" people are saying they are doing to make themselves better versions of themselves.That thing is connection with our emotions. There is as I see it a prevalent negative culture pervading social media and other areas that encourages individuals to lock into a cycle of emotional navel gazing. A continuous process of just looking and talking about emotions preventing them from what they are wanting to do, express themselves to get out of the body.In this podcast recorded at the beginning of the Movement and Search for Meaning series I sat down with weMove collaborator, Integral coach and facilitator Damian Fearns and talked about Emotions. Because for so many, including my own self I understood but didn't really understand what emotions are, what they do and how important they are for guiding us and also how they can if not treated with respect and care create some real blockages in how we interact with life and the world around us.Emotions when understood and accepted have the ability to raise our awareness of an issue and then move on out of the body. When we get to grips with this we can respond to them, and help them do what they need to do which is move. Because emotions move us, so in searching for meaning in our lives, perhaps connect with your emotions instead of disconnecting from them. You will thank them for it.If you like what we do, then we ask that you share the podcast with others who are searching for new things to listen to. We will also be launching this November our newsletter The Middle Way, so if you are interested in receiving a simply designed and concise guide that connects the themes of weMove together then sign up on our website weMove.world or on our Linktree on our instagram bio. Sending you all good vibes in these curious times. Peace.