94. Feeling the Blue: 5 Ways Sadness Can Improve Your Life
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week, Monica and Michael continue their conversation about sadness and unpack more fascinating ways we can use our emotions to learn and grow. Recent studies show that being sad can unlock clarity, generosity, and motivation. Join us for part 2 of Monica and Michael’s illuminating conversation about feeling our feelings.
“Inviting sadness to be your teacher is a sure way to start transforming it.” – Monica Berg
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| 0:00.0 | The ego will be always connected to things that are external in the physical world, |
| 0:12.7 | and that will create something that feels really sad and lack but isn't real, versus that |
| 0:18.2 | internal part of you that's connected to your source and we've come |
| 0:21.7 | from and it's there to guide us and to really keep us going in the direction we're meant to of growth. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to the spiritually hungry podcast episode 94. So last week, Michael and I unpacked sadness, |
| 0:40.2 | but there was so much to say we decided to do a second episode on it. And the world is giving |
| 0:47.3 | us many reasons to be sad as of late. So yes, that's where we're going to go. |
| 0:56.4 | I mean, the news there was in Texas where 19 children were killed and two educators were also killed. |
| 1:04.9 | And, you know, I mean, I just find myself since the news came out, just thinking about the parents and the pain, |
| 1:12.9 | unbelievable pain they must be feeling. |
| 1:15.4 | So, again, obviously, we speak about things we think are important and relevant and to give |
| 1:20.7 | tips and tools that will hopefully help all of us, you know, and even ways to show up for |
| 1:25.6 | people who are experiencing extreme sadness. |
| 1:30.6 | So if you haven't heard the last episode 93, please listen to that one first and then continue |
| 1:36.9 | on to this one. So sadness has value and it does have its place and we're meant to unfinchingly feel the broad range of human emotion. |
| 1:46.9 | And I love this quote by Stephen Tyler from Aerosmith said every life. |
| 1:51.7 | Yeah, it's interesting. |
| 1:52.5 | I heard that recently he went back to rehab and relapse. |
| 1:56.4 | Really? |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:57.4 | How recent? |
| 1:58.3 | Like a few weeks ago. |
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