Can you be addicted to emotions. The answer is yes. You can be addicted to emotions that don't serve you and keep you stuck. Take a listen and uncover what emotions you could be addicted too.
Can we be addicted to emotions? The cancelling of the plans is a vehicle for you to feel guilty. My new emotion that I want to embody, express, and share with the world is joy. What emotions can you release?
Hello. Danielle Jogan here, talking about emotions now. You know, we have a huge playing field of all the emotions from, say, joy to sadness, fear to bliss. And my thought today is, can we be addicted to emotions? Can you be addicted to a specific motion my research and experience experiences? Yes, we can be addicted to emotions and how it looks like in real life. So, example, say you make plans with the friends and you cancel the plans last minute. Like, this is a habit that maybe you do often.
So you always cancel your plans, and after that you feel guilty. I just feel so guilty that I always cancel my plans. And so it's not so much the cancelling of the plans. The cancelling of the plans is a vehicle for you to just feel guilty. m. And have bowl of ice cream. m. It is the vehicle for. For you to feel the guilt. So we can be addicted to feeling certain emotions in our body because we are number one used to them. It's actually comfortable that maybe we did it for a certain time to get access to something.
Like it was a protection, or it was just the feeling that was around you growing up. Like, feeling guilty was just a feeling that was normal, so it actually became normal and comfortable for you. So it's not so much having to change, not stopping the plans. Like, oh, never mind, it can't come. Or eating that bowl of ice cream in the middle of the night. Like, forget about trying to fix that so much, then releasing the desire, the need to feel guilty. So that's the emotion that can be the addiction.
So it's actually just releasing guilt. Like, I'm not, I don't feel guilty. You can actually cancel plans and be like, I just didn't want to go, or something else came up without feeling guilty there, or having ice cream in the middle of night. Be like, I really enjoyed this ice cream. Right? So it's letting go of the desire, the need, the attachment to feeling guilty. And then maybe you just end up having those plans with your friends you follow through, or you just change the plans without feeling guilty, or, and you don't just have ice cream anymore in the middle of the night because you needed the ice cream to feel guilty.
It's gonna be really interesting to see what emotions that you could be addicted to. Look at a constant feeling, you feel, like, sad. Or. Or maybe the things you say, right. Oh, that just makes me so sad. Or, or. Or you mess something up, like it's on my fault. Like the feeling of blame on yourself. I'm just blaming myself all the time. We also could be addicted to feeling joy, right? So it doesn't mean you have to feel the negative emotions. But a lot of times we can also be so focused on the negative because it's easier to focus on the negative.
So my invitation for you is to look at all the emotions you feel throughout one day. Maybe journal on it, reflect on it, meditate on it, and see what is a constant emotion or what is an action you don't like to do. Like, yeah, cancel your plans or eat ice cream or have a messy house. Like, there's an emotion attached to it. If it automatically just happens, look at the emotion, see if you can release it. And if I let go of guilt, I now step into joy. My new emotion that I want to embody, express, and share with the world is joy.
Let me know how that goes. What emotions can you release? What emotions can you fill in and live a more aligned, fulfilled life? Danielle joking in here. Questions? Please reach out.
