Our habitual range of e-motion is one of the ways that we can limit our access to a more enrealed and inclusive consciousness. Our habitual range of e-motion can be defined as our emotional comfort zone. It is that place between vulnerability and armor that we return to time and again. Our habitual range of emotion represents the ingrained grooves of how we hold ourselves back, finding comfort in a range that was conditioned, and/or that developed in an effort to repress and bypass painful emotions. Most of us go back to the range that kept us safe during challenging or traumatic life experiences, often without recognizing that it has outlived its usefulness. Examples of the latter can include abandoning a love relationship before we get too close, or sabotaging a great achievement just before it is complete, or eating a large amount of unhealthy, numbing food after a vulnerable opening. Anything that pushes us outside of our comfort zone, anything that may bring us into closer contact with our unresolved wounds, is bypassed or pushed away, in order to bring us back into range. This makes complete sense since our range has been prescribed by our trauma history and conditioning. Most of us enter this world deeply vulnerable and open, and life experiences compel a tightening of the range.
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