The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You

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Overview

Emotions-especially the dark and dishonored ones-hold a tremendous amount of energy. We've all seen what happens when we repress or blindly express them. With The Language of Emotions, empathic counselor Karla McLaren shows you how to meet your emotions and receive their life-saving wisdom to safely move toward resolution and equilibrium. Through experiential exercises covering a full spectrum of feelings from anger, fear, and shame to jealousy, grief, joy, and more, you will discover how to work with your own and others' emotions with fluency and expertise. Here is a much-needed resource filled with revolutionary teachings and breakthrough skills for cultivating a new and empowering relationship with your feeling states.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781591797739
Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/28/2010
Format: CD
Sales rank: 649,541
Product dimensions: 6.80 (w) x 6.40 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Karla McLaren is an award-winning author and pioneering educator whose empathic approach to the emotions has taken her through the healing of her own childhood trauma into an empathic healing career, and now into the study of sociology, neurology, cognitive psychology, and social psychology. Karla has taught thousands of people through her four books and five audio-learning sets, and at such venues as the Omega Institute, Naropa University, and the Association for Humanistic Psychology. She lives in California.

Preface ix

Part I Restoring Your Native Language

1 Introduction 3

Creating a Conscious Life

2 My Empathic Journey 9

The Difficult Beginnings of Empathy

3 Troubled Waters 25

How We Got So Confused

4 It Takes A Village 39

Surrounding Your Emotions with Support

5 Reviving Your Essential Nature 57

Making Room for Your Central Self

6 Avoidance, Addiction, and Awakening 77

Understanding the Need for Distractions

7 Unintentional Shamans 91

The Role of Trauma in Soul-Making and Culture-Building

8 The Role of Emotions in The Resolution of Trauma 113

Water Will Carry You Home

9 The Steadfast Promise 123

Why Love Is Not an Emotion

10 Building Your Raft 125

The Five Empathic Skills

Part II Embracing Your Emotions

11 Wading Into The Water 161

Awakening All of Your Emotions

12 Anger: Protection and Restoration 167

Includes Rage, Fury, and the Healing of Trauma

13 Apathy And Boredom: The Mask for Anger 191

14 Guilt And Shame: Restoring Integrity 197

15 Hatred: The Profound Mirror 215

Includes Resentment, Contempt, Disgust, and Shadow Work

16 Fear: Intuition and Action 235

Includes Anxiety, Worry, and the Healing of Trauma

17 Confusion: The Mask for Fear 257

18 Jealousy And Envy: Relational Radar 263

Includes Greed

19 Panic and Terror: Frozen Fire 281

Includes Healing from Trauma

20 Sadness: Release and Rejuvenation 295

Includes Despair and Despondency

21 Grief: The Deep River of the Soul 311

22 Depression: Ingenious Stagnation 327

Focusing on Situational Depression

23 Suicidal Urges: The Darkness Before Dawn 345

24 Happiness: Amusement and Anticipation 359

25 Contentment: Appreciation and Recognition 365

26 Joy: Affinity and Communion 369

Includes Exhilaration and Honoring Happiness in Others

27 Stress And Resistance 377

Understanding Emotional Physics

28 Emotions Are Your Native Language 387

The Fine Art of a Life Well Lived

Acknowledgments 393

Notes 395

Further Resources 399

Index 405

About The Author 415

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Anonymous

Posted August 27, 2011

Well worth plowing through the repetitive explanations

If one can get past the long winded and continually repeated explanations; the poorly chosen, overused put down phrases like...'it's about the chip on our shoulder...'in a book that purports to be about healing childhood traumas and wounds, there is excellent information and useful exercises that can be put to good use in untangling and transforming the chaos and confusion of crazy, hurtful childhoods. Freeing one from the ways these wounds may warp our sense of self and what we attract to ourselves in our adult lives.
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Anonymous

Posted November 6, 2010

What Are Your Emotions Trying To Tell You?

When it comes to our emotions, we often try to deny them, until they overwhelm us. What Karla McLaren does is provide a powerful insight into dealing with them once and for all. This book is a good read. I'd also recommend that you buy "When God Stopped Keeping Score." an intimate look at the power of God and forgiveness. Given the chance, it too will change your life.
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Posted August 20, 2010

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Awesome! A must read for anyone who is trying to find emotional balance or searching for answers.

This book takes a complex subject and relays comprehensive information in an interesting and entertaining manner. I found myself highlighting keypoints that I could reference in the future. Some self help books assume a parental tone and sound like a lecture of "shoulds" and "should nots". This book does not. It felt as though the writer was talking to me and teaching rather than lecturing.
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