- Daily: 9am - 5pm
- 800-555-1234
We explore with Dana what it truly means to have a healthy relationship with your emotions. Your soul didn’t come here to bypass the human experience — it came to feel it. To touch every texture of being human. To taste joy, sorrow, confusion, clarity, grief, relief, longing, and love. When you allow yourself to feel your emotions fully — even the uncomfortable ones — you open the door to a deeper, more euphoric way of living.
Healthy emotions do not mean never feeling sad, angry, overwhelmed, or lost. Healthy emotions mean learning how to hold what you feel with honesty, safety, and reverence. It means letting the emotion move through you instead of exploding outward or shutting down inward. There are moments when you must shelf what you’re feeling — not to avoid it, but to wait until you’re in a safe space where your heart can express itself without causing harm. This is emotional wisdom, not repression.
You cannot choose happiness without allowing sadness. You cannot experience deep joy without knowing the ache of longing. Emotions are part of the packaged deal — the full curriculum of Earth School. When we embrace this truth, life becomes richer, more meaningful, and more sacred. Your emotions are not a weakness. They are your guidance system, your teachers, and your connection to the soul.
Healthy emotions are not about control — they’re about relationship. A relationship where every emotion is honored, allowed, and understood as part of your becoming.
Water is the greatest teacher of the emotional world. Just as water flows, shifts, and moves with the landscape, our emotions are meant to do the same. In shamanic traditions, the element of Water is the keeper of the heart — the realm of feeling, intuition, memory, and release. When your emotions become stuck, heavy, or overwhelming, Water offers a gentle and powerful way to support their movement.
Water reminds us that nothing in nature stays frozen forever. All emotions — even grief, rage, or confusion — soften when given warmth, attention, and space to move. You can support your emotional healing by intentionally working with Water:
• Drink water mindfully, allowing each sip to cleanse and nourish the heart.
• Shower or bathe with intention, letting the water carry away heaviness that isn’t yours to hold.
• Cry without shame — tears are the soul’s natural release valve.
• Sit by rivers, oceans, or lakes, letting the movement of water teach your heart how to move again.
• Use water in ritual, such as placing your hands in a bowl of water and breathing into what you’re ready to let go.
When you work with Water, you remember that emotions aren’t obstacles — they are currents guiding you back to yourself. Water teaches you how to soften without collapsing, how to release without breaking, and how to let your heart stay open even when it aches. In this way, Water becomes one of the most profound allies in cultivating healthy, balanced emotions.
Healthy emotions aren’t about perfection — they’re about presence. When you allow yourself to feel honestly, safely, and fully, you return to the truth of who you are: a soul having a brilliantly messy, profoundly meaningful human experience. Your emotions are not obstacles, they are invitations — to deeper connection, deeper understanding, deeper embodiment.
As you walk this path, remember: You don’t have to navigate your emotional landscape alone. You don’t have to fear the depth of what you feel. You don’t have to hide your heart to belong. Your emotions are allies. Your heart is your compass. And your soul is guiding you every step of the way.
This is the wisdom of the third leg of the table — the emotional leg that steadies your whole being. When you tend to your emotions with curiosity and compassion, you strengthen your capacity to love, to heal, and to live fully awake. You become the kind of Sage who feels deeply and stands firmly — one who walks the human path with softness, strength, and open-hearted presence.
You were made to feel. And your feelings, when honored, will always lead you home.