2024 Post Presidential Election - Can Our Emotional Awareness Transcend Partisan Politics & Build Bridges?
Hello ladies!
If you were looking for a partisan statement on the election results, you have come to the wrong place. And I say this with the utmost love!
What I would love to do is use this opportunity of national hustle and bustle and excitement and fear and anxiety and joy and celebration and disappointment and delightfulness to enter into the collective ocean of emotions with you.
In other words, what an opportunity to practice being in love with our feelings - all of them… a nail biting hair raising event such as one of the more contested and controversial and emotionally charged presidential elections.
On one side of the aisle, we have some people afraid that the country is destined for ruin. And, on the other side of the aisle, we have people celebrating feeling joy and sighing with feelings of relief, imagining that this outcome has saved us from sheer disaster and the end of democracy as we know it.
Whichever side of the aisle you are on, or if you are in the middle, or straddling both in different ways or you have mixed feelings that are strong in different areas… what an immensely amazing opportunity to get in touch with your feelings today…
As you hear people share their own exuberance and enthusiasm for the outcome, if you feeling differently, how does that make you feel?
Do you feel afraid to share how you truly feel, angry, sad, disappointed….
Where are these feelings in your body?
Do you feel tight?
Self-righteous indignation…
Do you feel strong and powerful… determined… or do you feel rigid… are there any other feelings inside you that well up as you hear the celebratory cheers?
Do you feel RAGE? Can you fall in love with your rage? Imagine yourself in a red dress with your hair flowing as you roar like a lioness… Feminine and beautiful.
On the other hand, are you feeling excited, relieved, hopeful — excited for what’s to come next….imagining a great future for our country, changes for the better… how does that hope and excitement feel in your body? Can you track it?
Can you feel the enthusiasm radiating out of every pore and outward through your fingertips?
Do you feel lighter in that joy and excitement and hope and exuberance?
And, if that is you… how do you feel when you hear the grief or even rage in others… how do YOU feel in YOUR body hearing their fear, anxiety, disappointment?
Is your joy and lightness feeling heavier now? Do you feel sad? Do you feel disappointed or angry now? Where are those feelings in YOUR body?
Or are you trying to avoid the whole darned thing because of all of the emotions involved?
Do you need a break… time to process? Are you caring for yourself or parts of yourself by taking your time… turning off the news… or saving it for later?
There are so many opportunities every day, including and especially, 11/6 on election year, for us to drop into our OWN bodies and immerse ourselves in our OWN feelings to get comfortable with ALL OF THEM.
Are there any good loving nourishing feelings in the depths of all of it that are accessible to you?
Can you imagine now that you are bathing in a sea of love? Can you try to this today with this or any other trigger and watch your atmosphere and inner landscape begin to transform one moment at a time.
It’s never too late to love and to use your OWN feelings in ANY moment and circumstance as an opportunity to heal.
… if you want to learn more about how to transform a personal situation, click the “book a call” link below or the “book a call” button above and we can chat 1:1.!
Love, Nora Rose