What’s the Point of the Three Kings?
December 24, 2024
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Those of us raised as Christians know this holiday is about a lot more than rushing about, partying and shopping, and many of us enjoy warm memories and nostalgic feelings this time of year. But why are the moments of love, joy and peace so difficult to find during the holiday season? Where do the feelings of exhaustion, anxiety, disappointment and depression come from? Why do we keep missing the point of Christmas? How can we recapture it?
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Reblogged this on lampmagician.
Many thanks, lampmagician.
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My emotional intelligence has been thriving, I just realized after I read this. HAHA! 🙂
Thanks a lot for this. I find it helpful to evaluate my state of mind and emotions. I’m healthy still, but yeah, thriving! 🙂
How about you?
Well, my emotional life is certainly thriving, but I’m still working on the intelligence part!! 🙂
Glad to hear from you! 😀
There is so much to ponder in these 25 trigger points.Thank you so much, Jean, for expanding my emotional sensors.
You’re welcome, Rabbi Stephen. Still working on expanding mine too.
I love the way you related this to what it is not. We can all fool ourselves into thinking we are emotionally aware/intelligent. This list makes it very difficult to not see ways that is simply not true. Thank you for this…I’ll be sharing this with my clients as well as doing much reflection myself.
Thank you, Linda. Yes, emotional ignorance is rampant! I have seen so much “fooling myself” about my own emotional life that I can’t help but see it in others. And we don’t have a clue. If you tell someone what you see, they deny it. As I used to. Most egos, especially wounded ones (and who isn’t wounded to some extent?) have very strong unconscious defense mechanisms in the form of stories they tell themselves that justify their attitudes, emotions and behaviors.
As you know, it’s incredibly difficult for an ego to see itself objectively; so difficult, in fact, that it usually takes a painful crisis of some sort to “wake it up.” Knowing that experience is the best teacher, I realize that much of what I write about here “falls on deaf ears.” Yet, there is transforming magic in words when they fall like seeds on fertile soil…….
Thank you Jeanie – my goodness, that encompasses just about everything that stands in the way of living a loving life. A direct reminder – bull’s eye reminder.
Thank you, Susan. My inner Artemis Archer must have been whispering in my ear when I wrote that one! :-}
My heart was beating fast as I read through the list, and then I got to the end and let out a big exhale. So much work it takes to wake up!!! Good list to go back to every now and again.
I love the way you were listening to your body as you were reading the list. That in itself shows much mindfulness and awareness. Just as animals don’t lie, our animal bodies are incapable of lying…which is why lie detectors work. Listening to them is a huge component of waking up; one it took me an especially long time to learn. Blessings to you on your inner journey, and thank you for writing.
A life time’s work.
Yes, indeed.
Very well written, and again, something that needs to be said! Thanks and much aloha
Many thanks, Fran. Glad you liked it.
Terrific list, Jean.. With 40+ years of working on my emotional intelligence, the project is still in progress. There was a huge shift during and after Vic’s death, but the Shadow never runs out of new tricks. I keep digging, because it’s what I do best.
Me too. I doubt I’ll ever stop digging. In fact, I seem to be in the midst of another big dig at the moment. Perhaps I’ll write about it when it’s had time to settle in and reveal itself more clearly.