Quick fixes lead to short term solutions. Creating emotional freedom takes time, but it’s the foundation for empowered living! Once you have it, you will always have it to rely on.

 What is Emotional Freedom?

 What’s Wrong with Being Emotional?

• There’s nothing wrong with being emotional, unless you’re hanging on to emotions that do not empower you.
• However, there are certain emotional states of mind that can partially paralyze you – keeping you from accessing particular thoughts, ideas & responses. This means you don’t really have control.
• One example is the concept that “Hurt people hurt people.” If you’re hurt, you’re more likely to project that hurt onto others. It’s difficult, if not impossible, to project any positive emotions. 

3 Ways You Can Have Emotional Freedom 

1. Disidentify from your feelings with your language.
2. Get a handle on your emotions with the 5 finger analogy.
3. Work through the 6 layers of human emotions. 

Disidentification 

5 Finger Emotional Analogy 

1. Start with your thumb, which represents an event that happens.
2. Your index finger stands for the meaning you create about the event. Here, things can diverge - you can choose empowered meanings or disempowered ones.
3. Your middle finger represents your thoughts. These are based on the meaning you made.
4. Next are the emotions, represented by your ring finger. Emotions are the result of the meaning you choose and the thoughts you create.
5. Finally, the pinky portrays the action taken as a result of the event & subsequent, often unconscious, steps. 

6 Layers of Emotions

1. Anger
2. Pain
3. Fear
4. Regret
5. Desire
6. Love & Appreciation.