Tag: feelings

When You Keep Getting Triggered by the Same Person (Part 2)

Is there someone in your life, maybe from your past, whose company sets off strong and difficult feelings over which you don’t seem to have any control, no matter how much “work” you’ve done and continue to do? If so, you’re not alone. In Part 1 of this two-part series, I described the frustration, confusion,…


Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)

Jerry and Locke are childhood friends. From childhood to play, the two had very good feelings between them, but unfortunately, as adults, the two very different personalities embarked on completely different paths.   – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to…


Study: Emotional Stimuli ‘Color’ Different Regions of the Body

What do lukewarm garbage juice, an intimate hug from a close friend, and the sight of a two-year-old child breathing their last breath on a hospital bed have in common? Essentially nothing, except for the fact that they all trigger emotions. Emotions are argued by many to be at the core of the human experience,…


How to Develop a Healthy Relationship With Your Emotions

She was someone who ruminated and worried all the time. Her mind was constantly busy chewing on and planning for one problem or another. She desperately wanted relief from her thoughts and the cacophony of her mind. And so we went to work. Through the practice of mindfulness, Lina learned to witness her thoughts; she…


Permission to Feel

This past weekend, I witnessed an event that was both utterly simple and utterly profound, an interaction that beautifully demonstrates what we really need to feel OK. I was sitting at an outdoor café, when what appeared to be a family of three: a mom, dad, and their 9-ish-year-old daughter (who was carrying a wrapped…