187a Inside Out – Dealing with the Energy Held in Our Emotions

This is the video of our Sept. 17, 2024 webinar: “Inside Out – Dealing with the Energy Held in Our Emotions”
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Our webinar this month is based on the movie "Inside Out” and its sequel “Inside Out 2.” These funny, entertaining and insightful movies focus primarily on how our emotions compete to control our lives. They are. Though they don’t discuss the energy that gets bound up in our emotions, they do an excellent job of showing that energy. They also show how longstanding, high-energy emotions conflict with one another, creating confusion, limiting decision-making and blocking creativity.

In our webinar, we review some of the ideas about emotions creatively illustrated in these popular movies. We see how our emotions work within our minds, especially how they are often in conflict with one another, and thus cause us misery, or get hugely exaggerated (panic, rage, melancholy, exuberance) or suppressed (feeling nothing, empty, flat). We examine how emotions bind up bodily energy, which can diminish our happiness and creativity. And we explore how one can increase one's emotional intelligence by either dealing directly with the energy held in emotions or by looking at the emotional components of one's personality in a way that allows that energy to dissipate.