A name that came to me was:
The Emotional Alchemist
Doing a Google search, I came across a book:
Healing Through the Dark Emotions
It seems to be written for Fours, but has lessons for
Fives - e.g., anesthetizing against painful emotions
is not the solution... the only way out is through...
we can be fully immersed in afflictive emotions and
yet not ruled by them.
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quote:
The Baal Shem Tov, a legendary eighteenth-century
Jewish mystic, taught that to master our sorrows,
we must know how to be fully immersed in emotion,
yet not ruled by it. I call this process the alchemy
of the dark emotions: knowing how to stay
connected to the energy of painful emotions,
to attend to and befriend it, to surrender to it,
mindfully, without being overwhelmed. This is how
we listen to the language of the heart.
Healing through the dark emotions is an unarmed
journey into vulnerability — a journey through,
not a departure from, pain. Often, we come to
this process when we are desperate. Perhaps we’ve
already tried a number of ways to “self-medicate”
our painful feelings with drugs, food, entertainment,
distractions, or other means, and none of these
have worked. Or worse, our attempt to medicate
or anesthetize our pain only complicates and
extends it.
At such times, it becomes clear that there is
no way out but through.
Healing through the dark emotions is the opposite
of arming ourselves against a sea of troubles. It is
a shamanic journey to the dark emotional underworld
where the only way to master dark emotional energy
is to experience it fully. Just as the tribal shaman
ventures into the world of spirits in order to bring
back knowledge of remedies for troubled souls,
so does the emotional alchemist descend into
the depths of his or her own pain to discover its
wisdom for self-healing and transformation.
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