Code 3: Harness Your Emotional Energetics How to work with your deepest emotion in the toughest situations

The last code, build your power pattern, showed you that your brain is a pattern-detection machine. So, what powers this machine?

Your emotions.

Emotions are, quite literally, your first language—the way you first communicated your desires the moment you were born. They’re primitive, raw, unapologetic zaps of neural energy that we feel, physically. And in their power, our emotions can be confusing. For example, we know the comment was just a joke, so why do we feel hurt? We know the email wasn’t a big deal, so why do we feel annoyed? We know the thing our boss, partner, or friend said wasn’t that threatening, so why do we feel anxious? ...

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