Breaking Bad Emotional Habits

This is a lazy post. I didn't write it but it comes from Vibration Magazine, which I've subscribed to for about three years now. Vibration is one of the best resources I've found for information on the healing properties of flower essences. If you're not a subscriber, you're missing out. It's completely free.


Bad Emotional Habits and How To Break Them

by Donna Cunningham, MSW

Editors’ note: The following is adapted, with her permission, from Donna’s The Moon in Your Life, published by RedWheel/Weiser and now out of print. Used copies can still be obtained through Amazon.com.

Some folks aren’t happy unless they’re sad. Others need anger to keep them pumped up. For some people, dwelling on self‑pity or victimization become well‑worn grooves that occupy an emptiness they would not otherwise know how to fill. Here I’m talking about the feeling tone that typifies each of us. “Delores is always depressed. What a sad sack!” “Bob would rather bite your head off than say hello. He’s always in a foul mood.”

Although a broad range of emotions is possible, most of us experience and express a very narrow range. Many negative emotions that torment us persistently are bad habits we learned very early. We are no longer conscious of why they arose, so these tapes switch on automatically in stressful situations. In a crisis, we play the same tapes, only louder. Your own habits may not be so extreme, but most of us have a small repertoire of feelings that get triggered repeatedly. Here are some techniques that can help you stop falling into negative patterns, along with flower essences to help shed these habits. Read the Full Article

Enjoy, and don't forget to take a few minutes to enjoy this beautiful full moon.

Be well and be blessed,
Parthena

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Tarot - The Death Card

Not long ago, I saw a funny little video on the internet. The grim reaper was getting a tarot reading and the reader drew four death cards. The grim reaper asked, "Is that bad?"

The death card in a reading often freaks people out, but there's no need to be anxious. Death in tarot and in dreams rarely represents physical death, although it can. The majority of the time, it represents a symbolic death ranging from old patterns, careers, relationships, attitudes or perhaps an entire lifestyle.

My favorite death card image is from Karen Vogel and Vicki Noble's Motherpeace Round Tarot Deck.

The snake has picked the bones clean, symbolizing a complete dissolution of the old. The snake is symbolic in that it sheds its skin on a regular basis, remind us that this is a good emotional and spiritual practice for us as well. Snakes have a multitude of meanings in our dreams and renewal is one of them. They can also represent a "snake in the grass" about to hurt us. This might be a person or our own demons such as negative thoughts, patterns and behaviors that we need to shed.

The coming of spring along with the current supportive planetary influences make this an excellent time to reflect upon shedding that no longer serves us.

My blog posts today have crossed over a bit today. Please visit my Wordpress blog, Dreams, Visions and Reality and read the post entitled A Time For Resurrection.

Enjoy your weekend and no matter which holiday you observe this time of year, I wish you blessings and abundance.

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