Peace Overtures Today is a weekly newsletter dedicated to guiding individuals on their personal quest for inner peace. Each week, I share a movie that helped me discover balance. It’s a process of awareness and healing that leads to sparks of joy. I’m sincerely grateful to have you here with me.
In 2013, we completed our book Taming Your Dragons: Making Peace With Your Emotions. It was our four year journey of understanding the power of the emotions and how they can help us navigate our lives.
In this podcast we feature some excerpts of the book we wrote together.
Emotions are typically divided into two categories: good and bad. We have this idea that emotions such as despondency, anger, grief,
and fear are bad and should be avoided at all cost.
This is truly not the case.
They are seen as bad because they are often expressed in a destructive way. Each emotion is a point on a scale that starts with the most negative emotion and ends with the most positive emotion you can think of.
In Taming Your Dragons, we created an emotional continuum, or number line, to show how this works.
The rank and order of these emotions aren’t meant to be set in stone – they are simply used for discussion purposes. The rank and order will have variances based on each person’s individual emotional system and life patterns.
Each emotion has a purpose. Each one lets us know where we are on the continuum and what thoughts we have been listening to.
See this continuum as a number line starting with despondent (-6) on one end of the continuum and Joy and Love (+6) on the other. You can be at one, or you can be at minus one. What we usually consider to be negative emotions are just a reference point on the other end of the scale.
When you understand that there is nothing wrong with being at negative five, that it’s simply a reference point for where you are so you can gauge which direction you are going, then you don’t judge how you feel.
This is a key point. Because so many times we judge our emotions resulting in an unwillingness to accept them. Usually we then shut them down all together or find ways to avoid them through various forms of addictions. These could be food and drink, shopping, sports, whatever is used to avoid what we’re really feeling.
When this happens, we’ve detached from our powerful guidance system. To help us align with the power of our emotions and to better utilize them to guide us we have this week’s Alignment Movie Process (AMP) film:
The Giver (2014)
In the film, The Giver we’re introduced to what seems like a perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice. At first it appears to be a utopian society but is revealed to be a dystopian one as the story progresses.
The Key Energetic Benefits from Watching The AMP Film The Giver:
1. The ability to improve your intuition and no longer doubt it’s accuracy.
2. A deeper awareness of what your emotions are trying to tell you.
3. A remembering that when you’re connected to Source, your emotional GPS is working optimally.
4. An ability to let go of any bias that is getting in the way of your connection.
5. A releasing of the importance of your friends judgments about your spiritual walk, what you do for a living, your marriage, and the choices you make in your life.
6. A willingness to turn on your emotions and feel deeply again.
7. An ability to get unstuck from your mental ruminations.
8. A melting of the walls you’ve built around your emotions.
9. A remembering of how to love deeply again.
10. An ability to take yourself and your emotions lightly and fly.
To get the resonance benefits of this AMP film, listen to the podcast to learn what the session is about, do The Intention Session (below) first, then watch your film.
The Intention Session
Getting started on aligning with this movie session is easy. All you have to do is review these statements and do the modality at the end. Once you’ve completed these, you’re ready to benefit from any Alignment Movie Process (AMP) movie sessions you choose. This includes any movie referred to in our books and blogs.
Say These Statements Out Loud and Then Do Modalities At The End
I allow the changes in my timing and only integrate what I’m ready to.
I have faith that I’ll receive the benefits I desire.
I’m patient with myself as I make my changes.
I let go of feeling I’m too busy to take the time to read these books and watch these movies
I let go of having to understand how these Alignment Process movie sessions work, allowing me to get the full benefits on my terms and in my timing.
Modalities:
Please do all three of the following actions to integrate this intension session. All three activities are a good habit to embrace prior to beginning an AP movie session.
Nod your head up in down as you would when saying yes.
Drink some water
Slow rhythmic breathing through your nose
You’re now ready to watch your AMP film. Cheers!
