« Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned »

Buddha

As a child, our expression of feelings and emotions is often held back due to educational pressure from family members and/or school environment; consequently, we learn to repress our feelings not knowing that this will have important impact and consequences on our self-esteem, on our vitality and on our creativity.
Being able to say ‘no’, to take a stand, is fundamental to the development of a human being. Existence has gifted us with this tremendous ability of being able to say ‘no’ in various ways and this is what we will explore in this step two of the Embracing Our Inner Child series.
This 4-day course: ‘Cooling the Flames’ is oriented towards Recognizing, Accepting and Expressing what has been repressed, the unspoken resentments, the lies, yet also and mainly, shock and frozenness, fears and anger. These emotional states that are the everyday life of a child. 

Course content
We will look at how these main feelings, shock, numbness, shame, fear and anger play an important part in a child’s life and how expressing them without restriction for what they are, within a safe environment, can be fruitful and bring back contentment.

Day one → Understanding what this is all about.
Talks, interactive structures and guided meditations will support our journey to understand what these feelings are and their purpose in our lives. Using the transformative trilogy, Recognizing, Accepting and Expressing, will clear the way to express our ideas and feelings in a natural way.

Day two → Understanding Shock, Shame & Fear.
Shock, shame and fear play an important role in restricting our expression. With active meditation, interactive structures and sharing, we will explore how to release and step out of shock, shame and fear.

Day three → Understanding the Energy of Anger.
The energy of anger is a natural response from our emotional organism. Once the shock, the shame and the fear that we carry are released, it becomes easier to regain our capacity to own and express the energy of anger in a constructive way. 

Day four → Restoring an Authentic Contentment.
Numbness, fear, anger and are often a cover-up for deeper feelings. Once these surface feelings are released and expressed for what they are, our hearts can re-open to feelings and capacities that are longing to manifest themselves. 

Benefit of the course - what you will gain from participating
This course offers a supportive and non-judgmental environment within which participants will be able to understand the dynamics behind these four feelings as well as ways to safely express them in order to regain self-confidence, spontaneity and vitality together with a joy of being which does not depend on anyone or anything.
You will gain…

• Clarity about what your feelings are and the part that they play in our life
• Easiness in releasing and expressing feelings safely
• More fruitful ways of relating and communicating with others
• Freedom to be yourself as you let go of the bondage of repressed or unexpressed feelings.

Cooling the Flames, step two of the Embracing Our Inner Child stream of courses is suitable for anyone with a sincere desire to live a more harmonious life; a life lived light-heartedly, in joy, love and wisdom.

The Upcoming Events page will tell you when and where the next one is scheduled