Hello everyone and welcome to the Evolve with Emily Show.

I am your host, Emily Hayden.

And in today's episode, I want to share with you guys something that I've navigated through

recently.

I am so thankful for emotions because they often can guide us to show us what's really happening

beneath the surface.

So often when you go through something and you

have a heightened emotional experience, it can actually give you a little notification signal

to say, hey, there's something here that either needs to be looked at, seen, expressed,

looked at deeper, you need to find the root of this, right?

Like, it just gives us this little notification system to say, hey, there's something here

if you care to look at it. So recently, I had a really good experience, a very positive and

happy experience. And after leaving that experience, I then very quickly experienced

sadness. And it didn't make any sense because the interaction was very good and very positive

that I was confused as to where the sadness was coming from. But one thing that I've really

learned to do is to not judge what's happening and also not discredit

what's happening and to actually give yourself the space to get curious and observe what's happening,

right? So a practice that I'll do is I'll get out my journal and I'll just write down,

okay, what actually happened? What is it that I'm feeling?

And then I start asking myself a series of questions,

just one by one, different questions that come up.

So for me, I was able to recognize that the sadness actually was fear.

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