311 ~ The Language of Emotions: Decoding 7 Deep Emotions

Hello Magical Human & welcome back to Madison Mindset the Podcast 🪬

Join me for a dive into the messages within 7 different emotions.

Your emotions are the gateway to deep and beautiful guidance 🪞🌖

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome and Introduction to Emotions
• 4:31 Sadness: Invitation to Process Loss
• 6:08 Anger: Your Inner Boundary Defender
• 9:43 Fear: Stepping Into the Unknown
• 12:03 Joy: Sign of Alignment
• 14:24 Shame, Peace, and Anxiety
• 18:31 Final Thoughts and Call to Action

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:04

Hello Magical Human and welcome back to Madison Mindset, the podcast. In this episode, we're going to go through seven different emotions and the key messages that may be being played behind them. Your emotions are not weaknesses or things that need to be fixed or avoided. Emotions are signals. They are messengers. They hold a teaching, a warning, they hold direction. They will guide you.

Speaker 1: 0:51

With every thought, experience everything that's going on, you will feel whether it is right or whether it's slightly off track for you, and we need to start learning how to not only acknowledge each emotion as important and sacred. We need to allow ourselves to feel all of the different emotions. See them as signposts. When you feel a little bit of this emotion coming on, notice it, see if you can understand it. Notice it, see if you can understand it. Let it guide you in the right direction. That being said, the sacred practice of yoga teaches us how to keep the mind peaceful and still steady and stable. If we can maintain a beautiful, peaceful center peaceful and still steady and stable If we can maintain a beautiful, peaceful center you will be able to listen to your emotions and what they're telling you without attaching to them so much, without reacting to them in an unhealthy way, without reacting to them in an unhealthy way, without allowing it to become something that is destructive.

Speaker 1: 2:15

So something like anger, for example. Anger is a valid emotion. However, I often say it's one that is very unnecessary in terms of acting on. You know, while it may hold information about guiding you in your life, anger itself should be not reacted on because you're going to say something or do something or think something that cannot easily be undone. You may hurt someone, something or yourself. Not easily be undone. You may hurt someone, something or yourself. So it is really important that we practice meditation, practices of peace, so that you don't react so much to your emotions.

Speaker 1: 2:57

The emotions are just messengers in motion through your body. You can feel them through the body. It's your entire body giving you a message. It's your internal guidance system. It's fascinating and really helpful, but we cannot spend all day reacting to every single emotion. You'll be exhausted. They're not there to be reacted to. They're there to be listened to. They're there to help guide you, teach you and point out things inside you or around you that may need to be healed or respected. So we're going to begin with these three big emotions that happen to be my favorites in talking about. But if you enjoy the episode, let me know in the comments below on Spotify, or send me a message DM on Instagram or via email. Let me know that you enjoy it and we'll find another seven and we'll keep going if it feels useful for you. You may like to write these down or you may just like to save this episode, just so you can come back and listen when it's relevant, when you have these emotions inside of you. Here we go for a gentle breakdown of what some of these big emotions may be here to tell you Sadness, sadness invites stillness.

Speaker 1: 4:31

The line of messaging when it comes to sadness. If sadness could say something, it would probably say something like something is lost, I've lost something, something is gone and I liked it. Something has changed, something is not the same as it was, and your action is to slow down and feel. You cannot push sadness away. Sadness is there to help you process loss and grief. It's there to help you process loss and grief. It's there to help you undo and release your attachments and to acknowledge or honor what once was in your life. Biomechanically, it slows our entire system. It asks you to dive inward. It is a reminder that you need to feel and allow the message, the healer of sadness, to restore, to restore the inner peace, the inner love, the joy within the body. The sadness is there as a reminder. It's not going to be there forever. It's simply a period of restoring. Acknowledge it, allow it, feel it and turn inward Anger.

Speaker 1: 6:08

The direct line of message from anger A boundary may have been crossed and or something has to change. Anger can often stimulate great change. It will effortlessly tell you who is right for you, who is wrong, what is right, what is wrong, what is right in this world and what is wrong. It will tell you exactly what to do. But something we get wrong with anger is that we associate anger with violence. And this is what happens. When you react to emotions, anger feels so hot and heavy in the body, it's passionate. So if you allow it to express itself through physical violence and physical expression, it can look like violence, it can look dangerous. But anger is not itself a violent thing. It's vitality. It's your inner protector, your inner guidance system rising to defend you, to defend your beliefs, to defend your honor, to defend your values, to defend what you deserve, to defend your boundary. Neuroscience shows that there is increased focus and adrenaline during the feeling of anger. Okay, this is why it can be really important with anger to be slow and not be so quick to react, because adrenaline makes you quite powerful, very strong in your actions and words and thoughts, and if you don't channel it properly, you can end up damaging relationships, connections, people around you and even yourself. So energetically, it's fire pushing transformation, it's pushing for change.

Speaker 1: 8:26

With anger, I always find it helps to take a breath, give yourself a minute, let the message of anger deliver what it needs to say to you, but do not allow it to be the messenger for other people. Let it guide you and speak to you. Take some deep breaths and once that high adrenaline and the rush of anger, once that calms down, then you can go into a conversation or a boundary setting situation or any other situation that you have with someone or something. You can go into it with focus, clarity and calm, Because anger itself will do damage. If it's the messenger, it's your guide, but let it be only for you. Slow down so you can communicate clearly and honestly, because the fire of anger often distorts reality. So it is important. Yes, if anger is there, there's a message for you, but be very mindful with anger. Slow down and give yourself time to cool Fear.

Speaker 1: 9:43

The message with fear is that you're stepping into the unknown. There's something that's outside the comfort zone and the most important thing with fear is that you be alert to that, because anything outside your comfort zone, to your brain, is a potential threat to your physical safety, for your safety in general. So you can feel fear, be alert if you feel it, but don't allow it to freeze. You, do not allow it to keep you in your comfort zone, to keep you in the safety box, because we do need to stretch our wings and explore outside of our comfort zone so that fear may be with you. When you're doing that, it's a great sign that you are stepping out of that comfort zone. But fear is just a little messenger. It's a very ancient teacher. It's simply signaling potential danger or growth. The brain lights up in survival mode and you feel fear when you can meet it with breath, with deep breaths and awareness that fear can guide you towards change and it can also give you the opportunity to experience courage when you feel fear, when you notice it. But you hold fear's hand and you move forward anyway. But fear at the most primal level is one of the reasons we're still here today Because of your fear. It encouraged you to go to the doctor or to not walk down that dark alley, or to not go to that certain place or that certain time, or to do that certain thing or meet that person. Your fear saves your life, but it can also keep you boxed in and trapped, because there's a lot of things outside your comfort zone and very few of them are real danger. Most of them are just moments where you need to rise. So do not allow fear to make you freeze. But it is a great sign that you are stepping into new territory.

Speaker 1: 12:03

Joy. Joy is a great sign that you're in alignment, you're in the right place, you're walking the right path, you're doing the right things. Joy is reward. It's dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, all together. If you think of it on a spiritual level, joy is a beautiful sign that you're on the right path. It's also a gift or a reward for going through a particularly hard time or for rising and continuously growing and evolving and trying. Joy is our reason for being here. Joy is also available in every single moment. You can wait for joy to find you, but the best thing is to shift your mindset to one of more peace and just simply feel the joy of being alive, be present and notice how much joy is in each and every moment. Now, that is where being alive becomes so much fun. The more joy you feel, the more in alignment you are. Genuine, heartfelt joy, and specifically there's joy that feel the more in alignment you are Genuine, heartfelt joy. And specifically there's joy that comes from the outside, because you did something, got something or someone said something. But there's also joy that comes from the inside, from your heart space, and now that is genuine joy. The more of that you feel, you know you're making progress in the spiritual realm, in the awakening realm.

Speaker 1: 13:44

Shame the message behind shame is that you are not good enough. It believes that you are not good enough. If you're feeling that shame somewhere along the line you've decided you weren't good enough. It points to a need of compassion, of self-acceptance. If you're feeling shame, you're disconnected from who you really are, from life itself, from the truth of life. We're all here, we're all enough as we are. We're all one, we're all together. You don't need to be more or less, you don't need to be anything. You just be yourself. If you've disconnected from that truth and you've stepped away from meeting life, ourselves and others, with love, then this disconnection is going to happen. It's going to feel heavy and you're going to feel that shame. Step then, this disconnection is going to happen. It's going to feel heavy and you're going to feel that shame. Step back into self-acceptance, step back into the truth of life. Remind yourself that we are enough as we are. Everyone is enough and you're doing your best.

Speaker 1: 14:51

Peace, the message. You've found the meaning of life. You are safe, you are here and you are whole. Peace is both a nervous system regulation and a frequency within the deepest fiber of your being, the part of you, your consciousness, your awareness, your soul. Peace is found in the present moment, with what is exactly what is in the present. If you're experiencing that peace, that is another great sign that you're, that you're really stepping into the point of life, the point of human existence, to awaken, to realize our spiritual self, how magical life is, how much of a blessing life is, how beautiful it all is. The more peace you start feeling, same with joy it's available in every moment the more peace you start feeling genuine peace, no matter what's going on, the more. You're stepping closer to awakening, to true consciousness and, finally, anxiety. You are living in the future. Come back to the now.

Speaker 1: 16:23

Anxiety is one I am very familiar with and it only ever comes up. After all these years, I know I feel it only ever comes up when a part of me is racing ahead and forecasting into what might go wrong in the future. What's coming up? What am I going to do? How is it going to feel? What's going to happen? Biologically, it's your brain's threat detection system in overdrive. We're in the sympathetic right. It's cortisol, it's adrenaline, it's spiraling thoughts.

Speaker 1: 17:01

Anxiety is a sign you need to come back to the present. You need to remind your brain, your body, that you're safe, that it's okay right now and while we may not know what's going to happen in the future or how it's going to go, it will be okay. We have to remind ourselves to calm, because anxiety is not a healthy thing to be feeling all the time. It shouldn't be a regular experience. It's a sign that there's too much of the stress. The stress is just living in your body, you know, living in the brain, like it's cortisol and adrenaline right, and it does wear your body down over time. So it is a signal to slow, relax and just be.

Speaker 1: 17:49

None of these emotions are problems. They are messages, they are guides, they are frequencies and they show up for a reason. They point towards healing, towards awakening, towards a message. Listen and dive into them, without giving them space to control. They're not necessarily complete truth, they're not necessarily right. They are simply guides, messengers with a purpose to deliver to you. Listen, tune in and let go. Thank you for being here, magical Human, and thank you for enjoying this episode. If you enjoyed it, please send it to a friend or share it on your Instagram stories and tag me at Madison underscore mindset. Please leave a rating or a review on the platform that you listen to this podcast through. It really helps me reach new people and impact more lives, and I appreciate your help in helping me do that. I wish you a wonderful rest of your day, love. Thank you.