5 Healing Life Lessons from INSIDE OUT 2

On July 8, 2024July 11, 2024 By Zeenat Merchant Syal-Counseling Psychologist|Spiritual CounselorIn Emotions, healing, Mind, Mind-Mental Health, Positive Self Reflection9 Comments

About 3 weeks back I had the pleasure of watching “Inside Out 2” with my family, and I must say it’s an amazing film. I love how the movie shows how different emotions affect young people today.

At first, it focuses on simple emotions like Joy, Fear, Sadness, Anger, and Disgust, a.k.a. the five core emotions. But as the character goes through puberty, more complex emotions like Anxiety, Embarrassment, Envy, and Boredom start to appear. Very very relatable, no matter what age you are. At times in the movie, I cried at how sensitively and beautifully the inner workings of our mind were being portrayed on screen. Just marvelous!

I used to tell my clients and almost anyone I know, “life doesn’t come with a How To live Life and handle your Emotions Handbook” almost as a factual observation so as to instill the importance of self discovery and personal development. But now, I usually give the reference of the movie Inside Out as a reference to learn from how to understand your own emotions.

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13 Ways to Sky Rocket🚀 YOUR Self-Worth in 30 days

On June 18, 2024 By Zeenat Merchant Syal-Counseling Psychologist|Spiritual CounselorIn Emotions, healing, Mind, Mind-Mental Health, Positive Self Reflection, spiritual healing7 Comments

“Self–worth is so vital to your happiness if you don’t feel good about yourself, it’s hard to feel good about anything else.” ~ Sandy Hale

Recently while at an event, the above truth dawned on me, more deeply than usual. It was the result of a conversations I was having at that event.

At these events you know there are people you might not know or they dont know you, or you meet them after a very long gap, so when you sit on the same table you tend to do the polite hellos and superficial conversation just to fill the air. Old people pleasing me was a pro at superficial conversations. But, I noticed this time that all the conversations I had were NOT superficial. Almost automatically everyone I met opened up about their most deepest thoughts and those are the best conversations according to me.

Upon deep reflection, I realised that my own energy was different, better, more self loving, more self respecting.{The healing work we do can have that effect.} The beauty of this inner work is, that your outside world responds to your inner energy as well. And that is why I felt at ease and had the best time even in between strangers.

One of the key factors of healing is working on building your self worth and by association self respect.,, and here is how I build my own self worth…

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