Emotions can be used as precious fuel for our inner evolution. 

Once one learns to tune into their emotions and relate to them, one’s emotions become loyal companions.  

They tell us about our inner world. 

They give us insights when navigating “difficult” terrain. 

They inform us in making “correct decisions” that align with our values. 

They can also show us how to support ourselves. 

And they can even give us insights into the world of others, giving guidance on how to engage for the best possible outcomes. 

Within our emotions are the keys to unlocking our potential and shining our inner light. 

When we learn to utilize these keys we attain greater degrees of conscious awareness and connection. 

This leads to continuous changes in our operating system - leading to increased processing capability and competence. 

This is essential for becoming fully embodied, accessing our intelligence, and building connection within (then shining it outwards). 

This article will explore how to gain connection through relating to one’s emotions, which can then be used to go out into the world and build connection from a strong, stable, and powerful place within. 

A place of self-knowledge and self-expression. 

When Emotions Work Against Us

Many choose to ignore their emotions, or they loathe their emotions due to a disconnect within themselves. 

Their emotions can feel heavy, burdensome, and unhelpful. 

This all indicates to us how one is relating to their emotions, and therefore themselves and the world around them. 

It gives insights into the programs they are operating on (or we are ourselves are operating on). 

The way one relates to their emotions is the way one relates to all aspects of self that exist within, and the way one relates to outside people (aspects of self). 

Emotions are feedback for us to comprehend who we are internally. 

By witnessing them - we gain insights into the way our autonomic nervous system is operating. 

When we listen, we learn. 

Our autonomic nervous system is then connected to our belief system as a whole. 

This belief system is our operating system.

It “controls” the way we automatically process information from our environment and then produces emotions in response to communicate with us about our environment.  

Because we as a whole (collectively speaking) we’re not taught how to think. As a result we can walk around with belief systems that were haphazardly and “drunkenly” adopted due to what was popular, “ensured survival”, and promoted “acceptance” in the collectives and social groups we found ourselves to be in company with in younger years. 

This ultimately leads to adopting beliefs that are contradictory and go against one’s nature, which then limits one’s capacity to shine their light.

This internal conflict of adopting beliefs to “fit in”, when in many cases those beliefs and demeanors go against one’s authentic expression, ultimately causes contradiction within one’s operating system and emotional dysregulation. 

The desire to fit in is natural, especially in the early years of life. 

In a natural setting these years would be a time when we would be soaking in the wisdom of our tribal culture and traditions. This information would ideally be trust worthy and guide us in vulnerable years of life as we become more conscious, able to take on responsibilities of carrying the tribe forward. 

This tribal wisdom, coming from individual members we would be forming deep bonds with, would teach us how to handle diversity, how to think freely, and give a code of ethic that would create strong men, women, and children. 

By contrast, ideas and beliefs in the modern world are more of a popularity contest or fashion show, rather than being based on usefulness, practicality, and resonance with truth. 

To think freely is to stand out in today’s world of consumption, entertainment, and insecurity. 

To “fit in” to the modern world’s culture is to forfeit one’s ability to feel their emotions and communicate them clearly. 

Today’s culture is based on entertainment and hiding of oneself. 

The old and time-tested character traits that act as markers and indicators of a person’s worth, talents, and capabilities have been lost in today’s world due to the systematic and multi-generational attack on anything that supports us in becoming individualized.  

These traits and value systems are what make a soul strong, integral, and capable of weathering storms of confusion by maintaining a compass of values to guide oneself. 

Truth, honesty, compassion, forgiveness, curiosity, are examples of eternal principles of character and conduct that act as nourishment as well as tools for an evolving consciousness. 

When we do not comprehend our own belief system and have adopted beliefs that are based on faulty foundations, we face emotional turbulence. 

A free-thinker knows what they believe and why they believe it, while being able to think in such a way that invites enhancements to their baseline operations. 

These enhancements are objective in providing value, such as a greater capacity for learning or greater connection with those whom we are close to. 

The belief system itself then is a “structure” that either allows one to express their greatest capacity and shine their inner light as brightly as possible, or it blocks the expression of that light. 

In today’s world, many base their beliefs off of what they think will give them acceptance by the group. 

Acceptance meant survival in a natural setting, and it does so when we are young, vulnerable, and are developing into conscious “adults”. 

This vulnerable state, when born into an eroded environment, can produce a slave mentality where one is desperate for the approval of others. 

Being born into an environment where the belief systems are lacking of strong foundation that serve to raise strong and sovereign beings can establish early patterns of seeking survival by molding oneself to the “chaos” of seeking outside validation as a way of maintaining one’s standing in a group. 

In today’s world, personal truth and individual expression are forfeited for the acceptance of the crowd. 

Our biology has been used against us by the shadow forces operating within the world that seek control over our behaviors. 

When we adopt a false persona and operate off of an insignificant value system that denies us access and expression of our emotions, we inherently will experience emotional schisms within ourself. 

Our emotions are telling us one thing, yet the “conditioned self” has been taught to act in ways that go counter to the natural self expression of ones feelings. 

Our healthy emotional expression comes to be seen as a threat to our acceptance by the group. 

Luckily, it is possible for us to have both (and natural). 

Insecurities are what drive a group to reject the healthy emotional expression of an individual. 

Accountability is what allows us to connect deeply with our emotions and act in accordance with them, benefitting the group. 

Communication is what allows us to “put things on the table”, to look at emotions, and to optimize them for the benefit of all. 

Our emotions contain truth.

They contain light of consciousness and awareness. 

This is why our emotional world is rich and provides us all the information we need to build anything we need from scratch, on strong foundations.

Our true power comes from within. 

It comes from our ability to logically take apart and rewire the way we are programmed. 

No situation, environment, or happenstance scenario can ever truly affect our power within. 

We are incredibly versatile and resilient as human beings. 

Once we are guided by our inner light - we are capable of emerging into our present existence. 

Aligning time tested values with our own decisions and expressions. 

We are able to shield ourselves and act decisively.  

Once we are collectivized we are far beyond the desperate attempts of “control”. 

Our emotions, far from being useless, are our connection to ourselves, our inner world, and are pathways of information. 

They provide us feedback which then we can utilize to liberate ourselves to greater and greater “degrees”. 

To excel. 

The process begins with listening. 

How To Use Emotions To Upgrade Your Operating System 

Here I will detail a process one can utilize to develop and reclaim their connection to their emotions. 

Note - This process is something that is utilized over and over again until it becomes automatic. 

Through repetition and conscious awareness, it becomes more and more refined, leading to greater efficiency in “processing” one’s emotions. 

It leads to greater self-knowledge, emotional acuity, openness, and ability to think logically. 

This process likewise promotes self-accountability.  

1: Listen

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The first part of the process is to listen to your emotions. This requires that one learns how to feel their emotions and comprehend what is going on beneath the surface level of personality that may well be a mask that one puts on to fit into the social groups around them (even with close members of family, “friends”, or bonds of any kind). 

Taking time to be only with oneself and to engage in practices that allow one to feel what is happening within them and then witness the inner world is a crucial part in shedding one’s layers and getting to know oneself. 

This part of the process is essential for forming a connection with who one is beneath the levels of personality that are typically “inhabited” on a regular basis by one’s consciousness and identity construct. 

Within every emotion is the “schematic” or instructions on how that emotional mechanism is put together and how it can be taken apart. If an emotional mechanism is not working for you observe what is driving it and what is making it tick - what beliefs are in place in order to produce that emotional experience? What does one believe in in order to feel the way that one is feeling? How does one’s perception guide one’s emotions? Asking these kinds of questions, and simply observing the emotional mechanisms, will lead to illumination and insight into how to liberate one’s nervous system. 

Learning to listen, feel, and observe one’s emotions can take form through multiple practices. Some may include: 

• Journaling 
• Meditating (stillness - observer state) 
• Body Scanning 
• Breathing (breath work practices / deep breathing) 

Develop these practices and gain connection to your self on deeper levels emotionally. Trust yourself with what you are feeling and develop curiosity with all emotions and physical sensations you feel when you explore what is happening within. Ask yourself questions about your emotions and see what answers emerge. The subconscious mind has an ability to deliver to the conscious mind information that is requested. 

Openness and a desire to comprehend how one is operating is how one can efficiently alter their programming and begin to move in positive directions. 

One limiting belief to watch out for: Be aware of any limitations you may subconsciously be holding onto in relation to how you feel and why you feel the way you do. It can be difficult to see “beyond the horizon line” when one has been within a specific emotional matrix for large parts of their life and limit what one is able to “perceive”.  In other words, accepting that one CAN feel differently and that their emotions aren’t “dictates” that are set in stone forever. Question what emotional states you are so used to that they seem “normal” when in-fact they can be changed and altered. Question the air you breath and the waters you swim in - there may be ways in which those substrates can be cleaned up for clearer thinking and feeling. 

2: Express

Finding outlets to express your emotions is another great way to observe them and connect with what you are feeling internally. 

This process then can give way to restructuring the way one feels inside of themselves and give valuable data in the process of liberating one’s nervous system. When one produces art for example, it is a reflection of one’s internal world. By observing that artwork one can begin to “see” (sense) how one feels internally. Through this process we can accept how we feel as well as see where the irrationalities are within our emotional processing and then focus on optimizing those “lines of code” or ways of thinking that may well be producing the undesirable emotional states. When we are able to identify and focus on those “lines of coding” we can optimize them and create/install upgraded versions of them in order to produce desirable emotional states and outlooks on different phenomenon we are experiencing. 

Here’s a quick list on outlets to express your emotions 

• Art: Writing, painting, drawing, singing, playing instruments, writing poetry, etc. 
• Communicating: Find and/or identify trustworthy people to connect to whom you can truly communicate with. Enter into these spaces with a desire to find solutions, grow, and take action towards those solutions. What would make your scenario better? Whether it’s one step or ten steps in a positive direction, what does a single step in a positive direction look like? 
• Public Demonstrations: Become more public about your life instead of hiding things away - put yourself in the light of awareness to get over fears associated with being who you are, connecting with yourself, and expressing your thoughts, ideas, and emotions. Become masterful at being open and confident - cultivate the sense of having your own back and taking on the road of cultivating true self-awareness. Do this as you feel comfortable to do so - expose yourself to the awareness of others in a way that feels that it is building you strongly and positively, as you are “ready”. 

3: Observe

Observation is a key element in the process of comprehension. 

When observing your emotions through feeling into them and expressing them, identify patterns in the way that your emotions, thoughts, and behavior are all influencing each other. 

See how the whole system works. 

Once this is done the areas that can be optimized become much easier to work with. It is more difficult to work on something that is not seen fully - it’s far easier to build something with a holistic frame in mind. This takes as many blind spots out of the equation as possible as well - which leads to a greater degree of “mastering” emotional mechanisms. 

Witness as well where one’s performance is doing exceptionally well and train yourself to give emotional rewards and feedback to those aspects. 

It is important that we emotionally reward ourselves by acknowledging where we are excelling and boosting our performance - witnessing where we are “on the money” and hitting the goals we have in mind. This positive reinforcement does wonders for promoting long-term change and altering the way one’s emotions function beneath the surface. This process also builds up self-confidence and genuine self-esteem by acknowledging and celebrating the progress one has made and continues to make as they go through this process of inner alchemy. 

4: Replace

Once one has observed that which is limiting their emotional expression and connection to self - the goal is to then rewire those limitations to allow energy to flow and connection to be made. 

The way we reclaim the aspects of our nervous system that have been programmed to work against our expression is to install counter beliefs that are designed to unleash our authentic expression. 

This gives way to wiring positive emotional feedback mechanisms into our nervous systems that encourage us and prime us to shining our light out into the world. 

The way in which we replace these old conditionings is by installing new habits, beliefs, and patterns. 

For the purpose of this article, this can happen in 2 basic ways: 

(1) Habits of Thinking: We can change the way our emotional mechanisms function by changing the way we think.  

Many emotional responses are fueled and catalyzed by the way one thinks and the “doors” one opens through faulty thinking. We are creating our emotional realities. 

Here are some useful techniques to orient oneself positively and continuously build positive momentum and increase ones ability to handle conflict: 

1. Seek out solutions: Adopt a solutions-based mindset so that when one comes into “contact” with a limitation - one automatically begins thinking about an entire host of solutions that could resolve whatever limitation or “problem” they are bumping into. 
2. Automatically Identify Limiting Beliefs: Learn to automatically identify limiting beliefs that one is coming into contact with. This can be trained by becoming aware of any limitation one identifies even in mundane scenarios of life. Often times these limitations drive a lack of efficiency - so look for ways one can be more efficient and witness any “limitations” that arise to the surface. Question these limitations and begin thinking about solutions. 
3. Return to Principles: Having a sound belief system means having sound principles that one can build off of. When rewiring the nervous system one will become more and more proficient at identifying false beliefs. The way one becomes more proficient at this identification process is by comprehending the principles they are operating off of and returning to them in any moment of confusion. Employing a solutions based mindset for example, is a principled approach to life. 

Changing one’s mind is an extremely effective way to change one’s emotional responses and reclaim their emotional intelligence. 

The second way to replace old conditionings with new and improved ones is through physical actions

(2) Physical Embodiment: We can rewrite our operating system by acting in accordance with where we want to go (no mental work required)

Physical embodiment are extremely useful techniques to come into the present moment and reclaim connection with one's emotions.

This is especially useful for anyone who is a “over-thinker” and spends too much time “in their head”. 

In a natural setting, distractions of the modern day age did not exist. 

There were no phones to get lost in, no TV, and far fewer distractions. 

People acted. 

Simply letting go of the mental component of change and focusing solely on what one can do physically can optimize the process of personal change and transformation. 

Connecting with one’s emotions means having one’s actions be in synch with one’s emotions. 

This means sensing into what one wants to do and then making movements in the direction of doing those things. 

Confidence and a healthy emotional relationship with oneself is built through completing tasks and performing actions in accordance with one’s desire (purpose or passion). 

As one takes actions and makes their dreams into reality, one builds greater coherence within their entire system because they are listening to what their inner light calls for them to do. 

Taking actions in accordance with one’s inner knowing or transcendental state of awareness is what builds and anchors one into reality. 

Many know what they want to do they are simply too afraid to do it. 

This action oriented approach is extremely useful and powerful in simply overriding limiting beliefs and connecting to what is true within. 

Tip: Notice any physical behavioral patterns you have that are associated with “not doing” the thing you really seek to do (procrastination behaviors). Simply interrupt those behaviors (like sitting down, grabbing your phone, laying around) and do something else instead. Sit-up straight and focus on what you want do to. Through this process of changing your physical habits you are changing the “energy flows” in your body and are training yourself to perform new and improved rituals that promote productivity, expression, and the creation of space for novel ideas and exciting explorations. Aho. 

Conclusion: 

The process of reconnecting with one’s emotions is a process of listening and then aligning with the way that one truly feels. 

It’s a process of connecting to one’s inner light - the undying flame of consciousness that exists within. 

Once connected to one’s inner light - emotions then become valuable fuel for continuous transformation and navigation. 

They give us information about our own inner world and where we can become stronger. 

They also give us feedback about the people around us through sensing vibrations. 

This allows us to sense who we can trust and how we can build strong connections with those around us, as well as informing us where we can offer aid to our family members, inner-circle, and tribe. 

May all be connected to their inner-light. 

Peace, Love, and Namaste

May The Light of Awareness Guide Our Way 

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