YES! At least, that's what I've found. The harder I try to fight my emotions, the more they yell at me to pay attention...and then I fight them more, and they yell louder. If I just stop and say, "hey emotion, I see you," then it gets acknowledged and doesn't have to fight for my attention anymore.



Ummm - the long version is an entire page of cramped handwriting in my journal! The short version...I was really more mad at myself than anything...mad that I'd pushed my inner voice so deep that I don't even know what it sounds like anymore. I was jealous of the women the author talked about in the book who had found their inner voice and learned to listen to their emotions, and suddenly seemed to know just what to do to make everything okay agian. I resented the author for making it seem so easy, when I know it's not. I ended up reading the book once with just my emotions...I related to too many of the stories presented, and I just "felt" everything too much! Then, I went back and read it again for the actual content, and really read the message the author was presenting, and I found a lot that was useful...the words resonated with me, and I found that I wanted to be able to listen to my inner voice and my emotions, and that the book could help me figure out how to do that.