Howdy,

Over the course of this pandemic, my emotions have fluctuated more often than ever before.

Sometimes I wake up feeling motivated to help people and to seize the opportunities that being in quarantine has afforded me. Other times I barely want to get out of bed.

Instead of judging one as better or worse than the other, I'm trying to accept both for what they are.

To do this, I've been using Philip McKernan's advice on sitting with emotions. Philip is a modern day philosopher that works with entrepreneurs and business leaders all over the world to help them find clarity.

His advice boils down to 5 simple yet disarming questions:

1. How am I truly feeling right now?
2. Where in my body is that feeling emerging from?
3. Why I am really feeling this emotion is because...
4. Hold are you?
5. What are you trying to tell me?

It is about going from identifying your emotion, to being in relationship to it, to being in conversation with it.

I find it easiest to do this when I write my answers out by hand.

Sometimes my answers are long, sometimes they are short. Sometimes they are literal and other times they are abstract.

There is no right or wrong way to do this exercise. There is only each person's interpretation of the questions.

Use these five questions as your writing prompt of the week. You can share your answers with me by replying to this email if you'd like to. If you're feeling courageous and want to help others, put "SHARE" somewhere in the body of your reply so I know I can share your answers in my future emails.

Stay grounded and accepting of yourself this weekend.

Nick :)

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