Overcome Negative Emotion with Emotional Freedom

If you’re awash in a sea of negativity, Dr. Judith Orloff’s Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform your Life (Three Rivers Press), may be the life raft you need to lift yourself out of negativity and into the more healthful life of positive emotions. Emotional Freedom, just released in trade paperback, describes the processes Orloff uses to help her clients free themselves from the harmful and debilitating effects of negative emotions, such as fear, jealousy, anxiety, and depression.

A non-traditional psychologist, Orloff combines the sciences of biology and psychology with spirituality and intuitive energy to help people rid themselves of the unhealthy burdens of being buried in negative emotion.

Emotional freedom does not mean the freedom from emotion—emotion is a natural human response to circumstances and surroundings. Orloff’s definition of emotional freedom is to “Increase ability to love by cultivating positive emotions and being able to compassionately witness and transform negative emotions, whether they’re yours or anothers.”

Positive Attitudes are Healthier

Scientists know that people who tend to be positive, hopeful, and optimistic are healthier and happier than those who are negative, pessimistic, and cynical. Positivity is simply a healthier, more pleasant state of living. The idea is not to avoid all negative emotions, but to transform them into something more positive and healthful.

Emotional Freedom contains a brief, twenty question self-test to help you identify the extent to which negative emotions affect your life.

How to Deal with Negative Emotions

The process begins by recognizing a negative emotion and observing how it is affecting you. Orloff describes common negative emotions, such as fear and anxiety, and relates how they affect your biology, energy, spirituality, and psychology. Becoming aware of the four-fold impact of fear makes it easier to recognize that it has set upon you, enabling you to then choose to take action to move away from fear.

For each of nine common negative emotions shared by all of us at one time or another, Orloff describes a process of recognition, followed by suggested actions to transform the negative emotion into something more positive. For example, she demonstrates how to transform the negative emotion of fear into courage, the negative emotion of frustration into patience, and anger to compassion.

Overcome Fear—A Pervasive Negative Emotion

Emotional Freedom is worth the price just for its treatment of transforming fear to courage. Orloff calls fear the mother of all negative emotion. Fear is so widespread in our daily exposures to the media, religion, politics, government, management, and medical practices that most of us move from one state of fear to another without recognizing its harmful effects.

In the instant-culture of today, frustration is another rampant negative emotion. Witness how you feel in a long-line, awaiting your appearance before a sullen clerk gabbing and complaining to her buddy at the next checkout. Orloff shows you how to transform that frustrating experience into the calmness of patience. It’s amazing how much better you’ll feel.

The transformations recommended for nine common negative emotions: fear, anxiety, loneliness, anxiety, worry, depression, jealousy, envy, and anger make Emotional Freedom one of the terrific values in self-help books.

Orloff throws in lots of personal experiences of her own and those of her clients to illustrate her points. A section on dream interpretation seems unrelated to the main topic, but is interesting and useful.

If you recognize that your life is spent in negative emotion more than you’d like, Emotional Freedom will provide a good start toward the benefits of greater positive emotion.

Judith Orloff’s Emotional Freedom

Judith Orloff MD, a UCLA psychiatrist, presents her unique approach for viewing emotions as a path to spiritual and intuitive awakening. You’ll learn how to stop absorbing other people’s negativity and how to stay calm instead of reacting when your buttons get . Synthesizing neuroscience and intuitive/energy medicine, this book liberates you from fear—and the emotional vampires who suck you dry.

Purchase the book plus get your “Embrace Joy” gift collection at http://www.drjudithorloff.com/emotional-freedom-paperback/

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