Bad Apple Press 2021 Catalogue

How feelings can help you to
read minds (even your own!)
Learning to read the signposts of your own emotional world is massively
advantageous. It is like having a secret knowledge that provides a roadmap
to healthy relationships with others and also with ourselves. Some people
try to ignore their feelings, usually to their peril. It would be like sending
important messages to yourself that you never bother to open.
Knowing how to read feelings is a bit like learning a second language.
Learning the language of feelings is like delving into the past and recapturing
a language your distant ancestors had, that was then supplanted by a deluge
of words. Your distant ancestors may have been much better readers of microexpressions
and feelings than modern people. In the absence of words, they
relied on that communication of feelings to survive. Today we prefer words
which makes us over-reliant on what people say (and less on what they do).
The language of feelings is just a relevant today and will give you insights
into other people and, at times, will startle you about yourself.