Unconscious Feelings

Just as thoughts can sometimes be unconscious and automatic, we also have unconscious, below surface level feelings. We sometimes realize that our connection to a place or person becomes stronger or weaker but we don’t realize it consciously, as it happens outside our awareness.

When profound emotions go underground, they affect the core of our very being and have to be dealt with in order to restore emotional balance.

Sometimes emotions are misread, and we start to block the experience of the particular emotion by mislabelling it. Example: Sadness can be mislabelled as anger, just because we perceive sadness as a weak emotion and anger as a strong one.

We also deprive an emotion of ‘oxygen’ by not giving...