Message of the Day:
“By practicing emotional awareness, you learn to distinguish between your feelings and the stories you tell yourself about them.”
How often do we feel something deeply - anxiety, sadness, anger - and immediately try to make sense of it by creating a story? Maybe we assume someone’s upset with us. Maybe we believe we’re failing. Maybe we think something bad is about to happen. These narratives don’t always reflect reality - they reflect our fears, expectations, and past experiences.
But there’s power in pausing.
Emotional awareness is the practice of noticing what you're feeling without judgment and without immediately assigning a reason or story to it.
Feelings are valid, real, and worth acknowledging. But the stories we attach to them? Those are optional - and they often distort our perspective.
Reflection Prompt:
Take a quiet moment. Breathe.(just like we have been practicing - a deep breath in and slow relaxed exhale)
What are you feeling right now?
Now ask yourself:
Am I creating a story around this feeling?
What is the raw emotion beneath the narrative?
Can I let the feeling exist without needing to explain it away or justify it?
By gently separating the emotion from the story, we gain clarity. We find space to respond instead of react. And we become more grounded in what is, rather than lost in what we imagine.
Today, try this:
Name the emotion.
Pause before the story starts to take over
Sit with the truth of what you feel.
That’s emotional awareness in action.
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