

Pursuing Positive Emotions and Avoiding Negative Ones Can Hinder Growth With Mastin Kipp
Sep 24, 2024
28:36
Episode Highlights With Mastin Kipp
- A reason to move away from categorizing emotions as good or bad
- Every emotional response we have makes sense from a safety perspective
- Why he doesn’t believe in self-sabotage, and why self-protection is different
- How shifting understanding of emotions can change our experience drastically
- We have to recognize and shift childhood conditioning around the nervous system to achieve the life that we want
- Personal development is going to create inner conflict, and inner conflict is a sign of growth
- The presence of inner conflict indicates a desire
- He looks at goal-setting as a therapeutic process
- How to not let the most traumatized parts of us be in the driver's seat
- When we're younger, there can be negative consequences to being our authentic self
- Your inner critic is how you parent yourself, and this voice can be a good indicator of how we feel about ourselves
- Why to ask “when was that true” in doing parts work
- No emotion is an enemy, and emotions are biochemistry
- There are 7 emotional pathways in our bodies
- If you have a fear of an emotion, you are afraid of yourself
- That which cannot be expressed to the mother cannot be expressed to the self
- Children are a place to contribute unconditional love but not extract it
- The greatest burden a child bears is the unlived life of the parent
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