Talking About Our Emotions

In this episode of the Awareness to Action Enneagram podcast, Mario Sikora, María José Munita and Seth "Creek" Creekmore address listeners’ concerns and feedback on centers and provide a further explanation of what ATA teaches instead. They discuss how they address emotional intelligence with their clients and within their own understanding of human nature.

“Now again, emotions and feelings are the data that we have to think about in the context of our environment.” -Mario [17:28]

“My thinking skills allow me to not fool myself with a bad narrative. With those feelings, we will explain them somehow, that’s for sure. Now, those explanations, the better they are, the more effective we’ll be in moving forward. So we need to learn to interpret our feelings, to know ourselves the best way we can, to see how we’re fooling ourselves, and that we have to do through thinking.” -María José [18:46]

“I do sense like this thing that I hear constantly, as if processing emotions has nothing to do with thinking or your brain. No, it has everything to do with your brain.” -Creek [20:54]

TIMESTAMPS

[00:01] Intro

[02:09] A few responses to past episodes

[04:34] A brief history of these concepts

[10:40] Understanding & processing emotions

[22:32] Books recommendations

[24:57] Data vs experience

[26:40] Another angle the centers are used

[33:36] Outro

Here is a list of some of our current favorite resources on thinking, sensing/feeling, and emotion:

Clear Thinking Resources:

“Mistakes were made… (but not by me)” by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson