Cleaning Up After Ourselves – Emotions and Empowerment

September 6, 2010
posted by admin @ 17:48 PM

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

-Maya Angelou

Cosmic Particles - Kathelena

Cosmic Particles - Kathelena

Memory created from emotional experience is the strongest type of memory that we have. We decide things that affect us for long periods of time – often our entire lives – based on experiences that cause us to feel some way. Very often we make those decisions in imperceptible fractions of seconds, and we mostly don’t even realize that we have. I remember once, when I was very little, deciding that big men with white hair and white mustaches were mean and dangerous to be around because my uncle (a big man with white hair/white mustache of course) had yelled at me and spanked me – hard – for something I didn’t do. It took me about half a second to make this decision, and half my life to realize why I got agitated and angry around certain types of men, so that I could finally release it!..(more)

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