Today you’ll learn:
- The nature and power of your emotions
- How to refine your emotional energy
- How to creatively channel your emotional energy
Before we get started…
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What is the most powerful energy you have access to?
I’ll give you a hint… it is not your mental energy.
This isn’t to say your mental energy (your thoughts, your ability to formulate and act on ideas, etc) isn’t powerful – it is monumentally so, and necessary for high value work, manifestation, and self-actualization.
But the purest, most potent form of creative energy is not mental.
It is emotional.
Humans like to think they’re thinking beings first, but they’re not.
You’re a feeling being before anything else.
And it is through feeling, through emotion, that you take all action and make all decisions.
Thought is what tempers, refines, and directs those actions and decisions, but it is emotion that ignites and charges them.
Thought is the forge, but emotion is the fire.
And when you can learn to channel that power, you 10x your creative ability.
The quality of your work is multiplied, amplified, and expanded.
And naturally, so too is the quality of your results.
My hope with this article is to help bring you one (or even a few) steps closer to using your emotional energy a bit more effectively and easily.
The Unrefined Fire
These are the 3 biggest problems most people face when it comes to wielding emotional energy:
- A conditioned tendency to be reactive to it rather than responsive
- No understanding of how to channel and creatively direct it, or ignorance that this can be done at all
- An inability to willingly activate desired emotional states
You may look at one or all of these and think “yup, that sounds like me” – and you wouldn’t be alone.
The fact is, most people reading this likely struggle with one or all of these.
We’re a feeling species, emotional energy exists at the core of our being, and yet the vast majority of us have no idea how to make proper use of that energy.
The benefit of this, though, is that if you learn how to utilize this energy to its full potential, you’ll gain a massive edge in life (and over the vast majority of people).
You’ll be able to…
- Be responsive rather than reactive, making things happen in alignment with your desire for yourself and your life
- Produce higher quality work in your creative and entrepreneurial pursuits that will have a greater impact and resonate with others on a much deeper level
- Will yourself into emotional states that will amplify your thinking, how you perceive yourself and the world, and the way you live on a daily basis
Sounds good, right?
Let’s look at how you can get started.
Refining the Fire
Ask yourself:
”When I experience a strong emotional charge, be it negative or positive, how do I channel it?”
Do you let it consume or overwhelm you?
Do you simply let it sit internally, until it dissipates?
Do you unconsciously transfer it to yourself, others, or your environment?
Once you understand how you tend to react to your emotions, you can begin to formulate responses – with the intention of making your responses creative in nature.
Think about all of the incredible works of human creativity that were born from a strong emotional charge.
Think of all of the world changing works of art and business that have been inspired by emotions across the spectrum.
The musician who wrote a ballad that pulls at your heartstrings because they had their heart broken, and needed an outlet for that experience.
The artist that felt compelled to paint a beautiful landscape that filled them with feelings of wonder and gratitude.
The entrepreneur that built a 6, 7, or even 8+ figure business because they knew how it felt to struggle, or because they had an idea that made them feel such a strong sense of excitement or inspiration that they couldn’t sit still without taking action.
Do you see what I’m getting at here?
All of the best work humanity has collectively produced was seeded by a strong emotional experience, and cultivated through mentally directing that emotional energy into action.
And so you should consider making your transition from reactiveness to responsiveness by asking yourself the following question the next time you experience a strong emotional charge:
”How can I use this emotional energy to create something of value for myself and/or for others?”
Even starting with something simple and straightforward is a massive step in the right direction.
For example, let’s say you experience something that makes you feel angry.
Take that anger and transfer it into a hard workout that will directly translate to a net benefit for your physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
Or maybe you experience a failure that makes you feel down on yourself.
Take that failure and produce a piece of content teaching a lesson of what not to do that others can resonate and relate to, and that will directly translate to building greater authority in your brand and business.
Let’s say you wake up one day just feeling “on” – everything is clicking, flowing, and you feel excited and full of energy.
Use that emotional charge creatively – engage in ideation or value creation that will help bring you closer to your ideal self and life.
The more you engage in this practice, the better you’ll get at it and the easier it’ll become.
The benefit is multi-dimensional.
You’ll be capable of…
- working with subtler emotional charges, meaning your emotions won’t have to be hyperintense to be successfully transmuted
- taking charges that are initially felt as negative and experience the results they produce as positive
- taking charges that are initially felt as positive, and amplify + prolong those states – making the experience of emotional well-being more regular and habitual
You experience a wide range of emotions every day, so start bringing your awareness to them.
Allow yourself to consciously engage with your emotions using the framework above.
Prioritize the practice of refining your inner fire, and commit yourself to learning how to use your greatest power.
Wielding the Fire
I encourage you to contemplate the concepts and prompts presented here deeply and intentionally.
Ask yourself how you can apply them over the coming week – don’t look to create massive changes, but small shifts.
What parts of this article can you integrate into your relationship with your emotions?
Shift your perception around your emotional energy, begin to visualize it as a fire.
In any given moment, how strong is the fire?
Is it contained, is it raging?
What is the color and quality?
Is it negatively or positively charged?
Is it burning freely without direction, or is its power being channeled into the creation of a desired outcome or experience of a desired result?
Remember, you are an emotional being first and foremost – accepting that fact and getting a handle on how to make full use of it will help you make massive strides in the ever-evolving quest of self-actualization, and open entirely new avenues on your path towards living in alignment with your highest version of self and creating your ideal experience of life.
And don’t forget, you can tap or click here to get the Key of Heart.
Much love and, as always, thank you for reading.
– JCS
