A Conversation with
wisewords
What is emotional freedom?
patients and in workshops, who have
Emotional freedom is your ability to
been labeled “overly sensitive.” Like
love by cultivating positive emotions
me, these people are what I call emo-
and being able to compassionately
tional empaths. Because we are so sen-
witness and transform negative ones,
sitive, we absorb the energy of others.
whether they’re yours or another’s. This
We sense their fear, anxiety and stress
skill liberates you from fear and lets
and sometimes take them into our bod-
you navigate adversity without attack-
ies. Then, we get exhausted or feel ill.
ing someone, losing your cool or being
People on a spiritual path tend to gain
derailed by negativity. With emotional
more sensitivity as they develop. They
freedom, you can choose to react
need to learn how to stay centered and
constructively, rather than relinquishing
be compassionate without becoming an
command of the situation when your
emotional sponge.
buttons get pushed. If you get mired in
the muck of negativity, you can’t lead a
How can we calmly refrain from
liberated, happy life. retaliating when attacked by a
Dr. Judith Orloff
diffi cult personality?
Why is compassion crucial to
emotional freedom?
“Emotional vampires” is my term for
INTEGRATED PHYSICIAN
many diffi cult people such as criticiz-
and
Unless you have self-compassion, it’s
ers, victims, narcissists or controllers.
hard to heal diffi cult emotional states.
I say, let them be our teachers, rather
WELLNESS ADVOCATE
When a loved one is going through
than tormentors. We must ask our-
a trying time, being compassionate
selves: “How do they teach us to com-
by Barbara Stahura without judging them is essential. My
municate with more heart and better
spiritual teacher says we make prog-
boundaries? How can we deal differ-
ress on the spiritual path by beating
Judith Orloff
ently with feeling irritated, controlled or
, ourselves up a little bit less each day. I
insulted?”
a medical doctor, psychiatrist,
believe that. It’s about baby steps.
The old way is to get nasty or
intuitive and bestselling
withdraw. The new way is to not simply
Why do individuals respond
react when your buttons get pushed—a
author, synthesizes the pearls
to situations in such radically
behavior that perpetuates war. Practice
of traditional medicine with
different ways?
what I call the namaste effect, which is;
cutting-edge knowledge
“I respect the spirit within you, even if I
I’ve defi ned four emotional types: the
don’t like what you’re doing.”
of intuition, energy and
intellectual, the empath, the gusher and
Your victories over emotional vam-
spirituality to create a new the rock. These are the fi lters through
pires are not small—they’re huge. With
blend of healing wisdom.
which you see the world—the default
every success, you are creating more
setting of your personality to which you
hope for the world. From an intuitive
She believes that the future
revert, especially under stress. Each
standpoint, we are all interconnected;
of medicine depends upon type is determined by inborn tempera-
my emotional freedom affects your
integrating all these elements
ment, upbringing and perhaps, karma.
emotional freedom and everyone in the
Because emotional freedom means
world.
to achieve emotional freedom
being able to remain sensitive, but cen-
and total wellness. Her new tered, in an overwhelming world, it’s
Can emotions serve as a path to
book, Emotional
essential to know your emotional type. spiritual awakenings?
Without this knowledge, many people
Freedom:
dysfunctionally hunker down in their
It’s necessary to understand these four
Liberate Yourself type for decades without examining
basic components of emotion; their
which aspects do and don’t serve them.
biology, spirituality, energy and psy-
from Negative
chology. My book teaches the tools you
Emotions and
How can we stay free from
need to proactively shift your biochem-
Transform Your
absorbing others’ negative
istry, as well as your energy, and to see
emotions?
the spiritual and psychological meaning
Life, is due out
of what you’re going through.
this month.
Many sensitive people come to me as I see diffi cult emotions as a labo-
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