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The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant

332: How to Get Rid of Negative Emotions

The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant

Michelle Chalfant

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Grief, anger, sadness, fear…YUCK! I don't know anyone who likes to feel these emotions.

I get emails from you guys all the time asking how to get rid of "negative" emotions like these.

But are these emotions really negative? Or do they serve a purpose in our lives?

While some emotions might feel more unpleasant than others, I personally don't believe any emotion is negative. All emotions are part of the human experience and carry information for us.

However, they can create negative experiences in life when we get stuck in them.

The problem isn't the emotions; it's that we don't know what to do with them!

In this show, I'm teaching you how to work through the full range of emotions you were designed to experience as a human and how to get unstuck if you find yourself lost in anger, grief or fear.

You'll discover practical steps for feeling your emotions in a way that allows them to move through you, no matter how you saw emotions modeled growing up.

Listen to discover:

  • Why "negative" emotions serve a purpose in life
  • The messages we receive about emotions as children
  • What causes emotions to get stuck
  • Practical steps to feel emotions and move them through you

Emotions are simply energy that moves through our body and creates sensation. And on the spectrum of emotions from love to fear, some feel better than others…but because they are energy, they can ALL move through us (and move through us quickly).

Problems arise when emotions come up that we don't want to feel. We avoid them and shut them down, which makes us more likely to get stuck in these "negative" experiences.

That's why we have to start going INTO our emotions, no matter how uncomfortable it might feel. When you do this, you'll be surprised how quickly they move through you...and what powerful insights they might hold for you.

​​"We're human, and humans were created to have emotions. We were created to have a range of emotions." - Michelle Chalfant

"There's an energy to emotions that rises up and passes through us." - Michelle Chalfant

"I don't even like to call emotions on the fear end of the spectrum 'negative.'" - Michelle Chalfant

"Anger propels us forward." - Michelle Chalfant

"Energy is always in motion, and emotions are energy." - Michelle Chalfant

"Something that keeps emotions stuck is a story." - Michelle Chalfant

"Just let it go and be present with whatever is coming up." - Michelle Chalfant

"When you put pen to paper, you're tapping into your unconscious world." - Michelle Chalfant

"There's power when someone is witnessing what's going on in our inner world." - Michelle Chalfant

"If you feel the energy of peace, it's neutral." - Michelle Chalfant

LINKS & RESOURCES

The Adult Chair Workshop Nashville: November 3-5, 2022

https://theadultchair.com/nashville

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Michelle Shelfand, psychotherapist, holistic life coach, and human just like you,

0:09.4

learning to navigate life challenges.

0:11.8

With over 25 years experience, I teach people how to get healthy using the adult chair model.

0:17.6

The adult chair model is where simple psychology meets grounded spirituality, and it teaches

0:23.0

us how to become healthy adults.

0:26.2

From anxiety and depression to codependency and relationship issues, you can use the

0:30.5

adult chair for just about anything.

0:33.7

Each week, I share practical tips, tools and advice from myself and a wide range of experts

0:40.0

on how to get unstuck, how to live authentically, and how to truly love yourself, all while

0:45.8

sitting in your adult chair.

0:48.8

Welcome to the adult chair podcast.

0:54.4

Hello, everybody, and welcome to the adult chair podcast, where we talk all about how to

1:01.3

live as healthy adults, emotionally healthy adults.

1:06.6

Yes, indeed.

1:07.6

Here we are.

1:08.6

I am Michelle Shelfand.

1:10.0

Happy to be here with you today.

1:12.4

On our third week in September, we are on podcast number 332, speaking with you today

1:19.3

about negative emotions.

1:22.4

What do we do with our negative emotions?

1:24.6

How do we get rid of negative emotions?

1:26.1

That's a question I get all the time.

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