Movers + Mavericks

Damian Fearns: Let emotions be your guide."In modern society most of us don’t want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us."Thats a quote from Thich Nhat Hanh that resonated with me looking back through old notes and it relates to this weeks podcast. Many of us are missing something at the moment in all the"good work" people are saying they are doing to make themselves better versions of themselves.That thing is connection with our emotions. There is as I see it a prevalent negative culture pervading social media and other areas that encourages individuals to lock into a cycle of emotional navel gazing. A continuous process of just looking and talking about emotions preventing them from what they are wanting to do, express themselves