The Tao of fully feeling - Pete Walker

[Zar]

This is another book that focuses on healing from dysfunctional families, but the focus is from an emotional perspective. It is a guide to repairing emotional damage done in childhood and a way to live with our authentic emotions instead of being caught in the two extremes of emotional states; emotional explosiveness or emotional deadness. What I found very interesting about this book is that Pete Walker's understanding comes from having to heal himself of extreme forms of trauma, instead of having more of a theoretical understanding. It's knowledge he's accumulated for trying many forms of therapies.

The price of emotional renunciation is a constant, wasteful expenditure of energy that leaves us depressed and taciturn, imprisoned in the apathy and ennui of the "Seen that-Been there- Done that" syndrome. When we surrender and soften our feelings, we reconnect with out inborn vitality, and with the invaluable instict and intuition that our feelings naturally carry.

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The Tao Of Fully Feeling teaches us to respond to our painful and potentially disruptive feelings in healthy ways. It illustrates the enriching aspect of the so-called negative emotions, and helps us achieve the emotional flexibility whereby sadness easily mellows into solace, anger unfolds into laughter, fear evolves into excitement, jealousy opens up into appreciation, and blame gives way to forgiveness"

Overall I think this book is very helpful in growing emotional intelligence and provides another angle to psychological healing.

 

[genero81]

It's available on Kindle Unlimited. I will check it out, thanks!