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how to create a joyful, high Integrity life means knowing how to express
yourself. Knowing how to express yourself means that you must be a
student of your own needs and feelings. Your can not hope to make
yourself understood and/or get your needs met if you do not know what
your needs are and what you are feeling.
Most people know neither. You can learn more about how to study
yourself and how to discover what your real needs are through the
Shambhala Life-Skills. Here you will begin to learn how to discover
your real feelings and how to effectively express your needs and
your feelings to others.
WHAT ARE YOU FEELING?
If you are like most people, you don’t know what you are
feeling. Not because you are out of touch with your feelings, but
because you are ”in touch” with so many mixed feelings
that blend together in a kind of emotional mud. Your feelings become
difficult to separate and consequently impossible to describe.
So, you must become a dedicated student in regard to your own feelings
so that you can distinguish one from another and be able to speak
to all your conflicting feelings. You are not a simpleton. You are
a complex person capable of feeling many different ways about the
same one thing at the same time. If you can not sort out your feelings,
then you can not speak to those feelings . . . and you will not
be able to express yourself. If you can not articulately express
yourself, then you can not hope to have your needs met and create
your life joyfully.
ARTICULATE SELF EXPRESSION*
Keeping this list of feelings close at hand and using it to help
you recognize your mixed feelings is the first step in being able
to communicate to others who you are and what you need to make your
life fulfilling.
LIST
OF FEELINGS THAT PERSONS HAVE,
BUT OFTEN FAIL TO IDENTIFY
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