You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brook Castile episode number 433.

Welcome to the Life Coach School Podcast, where it's all about real clients, real problems, and real coaching.

And now your host, Master Coach Instructor Brook Castile.

Well, hello my friends. Welcome to the podcast. It has been an epic, epic couple weeks since I recorded a podcast, and I just want to tell you a few things before I get started.

The first is I turned 50 years old. I had the most incredible amazing birthday with some of my best friends, and we did a photoshoot with David Yarrow.

If you want to see some of that, you can check it out on my very brand new Instagram account at the real Brook Castile.

Yes, I started my first social media account all by myself at the age of 50, and I'm posting every day if you'd like to check it out.

I'm doing rules to live a by that show clips of my daily life.

So I am on fire. I'm excited. I am 50. Let's go.

Today, I want to talk to you about the art of feeling bad, and I think that it's underrated.

I've talked a lot on this podcast about what life is in terms of being 50, 50, and in terms of coming into this human world, coming to this planet, and being kind of duped into believing that we're supposed to be happy all the time.

And being trained to believe that we're aiming to be good all the time, and we're aiming to be happy all the time.

And when I discovered the concept for myself that life shouldn't be about always being happy and always being good, it should be a balance of those two things.

And we should have a balance of positive and negative emotion. And even though our thoughts cause our feelings, that does not mean that we want to feel good all the time, we do not want to be in some toxic positivity, pretend people pleasing perfection.

We want to be humans who are balanced on the planet, and we want to feel the full range of what it is like to be alive, which means the full range of emotions.

And as I have been doing a lot of study lately on emotions, I have been fascinated by the interplay between physical pain and emotional pain.

And I've talked about that on the podcast before, and talking to lots of my friends and lots of my clients about how this interplay happens in the brain, and how the brain actually can cause physical symptoms of pain as an alternative to emotional pain.

And if we can recognize the errors in terms of repression of emotional pain, we may possibly have less physical pain. If our brain isn't trying to distract us from our emotional pain because we're actually processing it, we may be able to release some physical symptoms of emotional pain.

So that's what I want to talk about today. I want to talk about the art of feeling bad. I want to talk about how we can get better at feeling bad.

Okay, as I'm saying this, there is a little deer eating my flowers. I'm in Colorado, and these deer are not afraid of me at all, and they like to eat all of my flowers. And they're so cute. I sometimes let them.

Okay, I digress. So let's talk about and review the concept of 50 50 half of our emotions will be positive and half of our emotions will be negative.

And we can view that on a continuum throughout our entire life, which I really actually enjoy doing, or you can review it on a continuum of an entire day or an entire week.

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