I noticed that when I wrote about going to the movies with Mom recently, the number of responses was more than those for any other post. I was especially curious when a friend told me not to feel guilty about my frustrations when with my mother and someone else assured me it was okay to feel irritated.
Then yesterday when I relayed a loving story about Rob, the feedback was ample too.
Lest you think Mom only garners my ire and Rob my affection, let me set the record straight. I am close and generally open with both of them, thus our shared bouquet of energy is rich and varied.
Plus, it deserves saying, I think it is so human to feel mad sometimes. I can stuff my anger or explore it. I believe, at my healthiest, I vibrate around a balanced axis of “up and down” feelings. And if I try to ignore the “bad” ones, I tend to experience the “good” ones less.
Feelings are so important to me that I taped a wheel of words that describe emotions into my journal. Having it handy helps me review moments that stand-out as significant.
Always Bridging 
“our shared bouquet of energy is rich and varied” – beautiful!!
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Ooh, Penny I love that wheel of feelings in your visual! So powerful! You reminded me of a practice I did for much of last year, where I created a “mandala” of feelings like this wheel, and if I was trying to sort out how I felt I would
Chart” where I was for each feeling-slice. It helped me learn about the wax-and-wane nature of emotions, comparing one day’s mandala to the next. Wonderful!
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