One of the most important piece of the evolution of consciousness and re-intergration into our whole-selves is the reconnection to our emotional aura – our awareness of feeling both in ourselves and those around us.
It is when we recognize emotions we can directly translate mental information into physical action, and physical action into mental information with an ease and clarity that was not apparent before.
Understanding becomes easier because there is feeling connected to the thoughts and actions that run through your awareness. If we use the analogy that solid ground is “physical action” and the vast blue sky are your “mental thoughts”, then emotions are like the water that run through the rivers and float as clouds through the sky, and constantly flow between the two.
Could you imagine a world without water?
I sure can, but in its present state I wouldn’t want to live there.
So how do we tap into our emotional body? How do we bring awareness to all of that flowing water between the different planes of our being? The truth is, it’s actually far simpler than you ever imagined, and we’ve got some solid hard-science here to back this up.
In a recent study posted on ScienceDaily, an experiment was conducted to see how 6th grade students responded to different emotional states, if they could tell the difference between emotions in photographs that they would identify.
2 groups were asked about this. The first group spent on average several hours a day on their smartphones, playing video-games and watching videos. The other group took 5 days off from their phones whilst they attended a camp. The observation and results of this little experiment pretty much speaks for itself.
Those who spent a larger amount of time on their devices had a far harder time identifying emotions than those who spent their week at camp. In addition to that, students who originally had a hard time identifying emotions, after 5 days at camp showed significant improvement in their ability to identify emotional states in themselves and the photographs they were shown.
So what does this mean? What changed?
The study goes on to say that its not so much the technologies “fault” so to speak, but the lack of face-to-face connection that happens when you are glued to your devices. If these students showed a rapid growth from just 5 days away from their devices, imagine what that could do for all of us if we just took a little bit more time to engage with each other than to do so over facebook?
I’m not saying to throw away the phone, just make time for your human-self too. The internet is a very exciting place still, even though it’s 2014, it is still the wild-west of this new age of technology we are emerging into.
In this new age of technology and discovery, lets just not forget who we are in the process. We are each other, we are the human race…and the Human race is FILLED with passion, poetry, art, romance, love…
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