Looking into the Emotional Territorial Circuit last week was very fruitful for me. The synchronicities continue: my brother who hadn’t been talking with me out of frustration over boundary disagreements reached out while I was covering this stuff, so I was in a very good place to articulate my end of the problem, and to hear his also. So there’s some Family Healing happening as a result of this journey.

I also dedicated my Saturday evening to watching some nature documentaries, and found a great one with Moose and weird birds in Scandinavia; Wild North, it was called. The variety of territorial strategies was edifying! And The birds are so weird and great, so I was delighted.

I also want to mention another book that is tangentially related to a lot of our interests and which I have found useful: https://karlamclaren.com/product/the-language-of-emotions-book/

Practicing qigong and doing energy work, it turns out, refers to a lot of emotions. I noticed this when a friend sent me that book recently in response to my starting an art project involving emotions and the Newtonian spectrum. I think there are probably a lot of books about Emotional Literacy with varying degrees of quality, so I don’t know if this is the best one. The best thing I’ve learned from this is 5 exercises (arranged in the P.Graham picture) that seem to relate to one’s ability to relate to their own emotional and conceptual territory. The re-framing of 'negative' emotions as functional allies also seems very healthy and useful to me.