Emotional Genius: How Your Emotions Can Save Your Life [With Study Guide]

I've listened to 2 of the six tapes of Emotional Genius: How Emotions Can Save Your Life & it's wonderful.She says we are made up of 4 "parts" that should all be equal: intelligence, feelings, body, spirit. (She calls them fire, water, earth & air which bothers me a little but not too much.) The four parts form a fifth, You. After the second tape, I kept trying to picture my four parts forming one. I now see me as a 4-headed, 4-bodied conjoined quad! But it loosened up my feelings a bunch. Had terrible nightmares, but they didn't make my heart pound & sweat. Just like she says, the other parts help process the feelings.She's religious in that she believes in God, but doesn't preach. Also referred to other names.If you don't think people can communicate with animals, the beginning might bother you.She is a "survivor" (I prefer the word "Victor") of child sexual molestation. Makes me feel good as to how Whole she has become.She compares what she believes with other "systems" and she says they are trying to make you just feel the "good" feelings, not the "bad" feelings, but both type can be and are healthy for you in some instances. And that contrary to some spiritual teachings, Judgment IS good. Not Judgment of others, but Judgment if something or someone or some belief is good for you, ie don't let someone else tell you to only believe what they say. Think & feel for yourself.And that's only in two tapes! Actually, 1 1/2 since I haven't listened to the second part of the second tape.

I've read so many non-fiction books that this past year when I was searching for a fiction book, I had to ask a clerk what section they were in! (Literature, how was I to know?!)I started out with the two tape series "Becoming an Empath", then bought these tapes along with every book Karla has written.So did both of my friends!This is THE best book and tapes series from every angle. It is sequenced just right, you feel like you're covering the material without feeling lost or bored. It's written in laymen's terms, like your best friend is describing the confusing world of emotions. I was so impressed with Karla's work that I flew to Colorado to attend her workshop, and no I've never done that before! (especially two months after 9-11)Now I can't wait for Karla to come to the East Coast. Karla is just like your friend next door. She will not allow you to put her on a pedestal and she truly shares her 'emotional genius' like a best friend...

We all have emotional genius...the question is: How do we access and use it to balance and center ourselves in our day to day life? Karla McLaren has an amazing gift for answering that question. Her answer...and ours...comes from her own experience of trauma and loss. These tapes clearly explain not only the importance of balancing our four elements of being--physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional--but also teach us to be the "essential fifth element" that sits in the middle of this "quaternity," ready to bring back health, logic, stability and faith in place of fear and anxiety.Karla tells the story of her own trauma...how she developed the tools from her own experience for deliverance from anxiety, fear, and even suicidal urges. She teaches us to use these tools to find wholeness through balance, centering, and groundedness.Because we see emotional people as weaklings and almost useless, it's important to understand that these tapes take us through every emotion and show us how to gain strength and self-awareness from acknowledging each emotion as it appears in our lives. Each emotion has a purpose in expressing itself, and Karla gives us a way to find out its purpose and its saving property. Balanced with the other parts of our being, it's a guideline for finding and keeping our true selves alive.Because I find these tapes the most powerful and the clearest in comparison to all the many tapes and books I've read over 30 years, I would like to follow the "Tape Contents" to give a rundown of the topics discussed. If I could buy only one set of tapes, I would definitely choose these, as they have given me a way to access my total self, and to check in each morning and throughout the day to see if I'm staying balanced and protected with my aura in place and my grounding cords attached.I can feel my energy being restored when I get grounded and centered. At the end of the day, there's a way to rid myself of stored up tension. I've probably made a simple process sound difficult, but whether you've had trauma in your life or just feel that something is missing, awaken your whole and true self by working with these tapes....

This tape series is packed with powerful and evocative wisdom about the emotions and the healing energies they carry within them. I used to hide from my dark emotions like anger and suicidal urges. But McLaren's words have given me the ability to work with those emotional states and to find their inherent healing power. Her process of "channeling" the emotions rather than relying on repressing or violently expressing them, has indeed changed my perspective on life and how I relate to those around me.As always, I found the quality of Sounds True's production to be excellent. They always seem to showcase the most brilliant and dynamic speakers and topics. This series is a tremendous example of their craft.