Emotional Flow

Your Emotions Want to Help You. Now’s the Time to Invite Them into Your Life.

Have you ever been swept up by your emotions—sadness, fear, jealousy, anger, or even too much exhilaration—and felt completely at sea? Or experienced a major life change … and felt strangely numb, disconnected, or confused?

Modern neuroscience reveals that our emotions are absolutely essential to every aspect of intelligence, perception, and consciousness—yet few of us were ever taught how to work with them skillfully.

Instead, most of us have learned to suppress our so-called bad emotions and pursue only the supposedly good ones.

The truth, teaches empathic counselor and author Karla McLaren, is that all of your emotions contain essential information to help you experience your world fully—and the energy you require to act most effectively.

With the Emotional Flow online course, you are invited to learn how to access and flow with the full spectrum of your emotions.

An Immersive Training Course for Mastering Your Emotional and Empathic Skills

Bringing together the core principles from her book The Language of Emotions with her newest insights and practices, Karla McLaren’s in-depth program will guide you step-by-step toward deep emotional mastery in any situation.

Each session, you’ll train and progress in a rich variety of ways, including:

If We All Feel Emotions, Why Do I Need This Course?

Even for those of us with a rich spiritual life and years of inner work, the demands and pressures today are immense. Just to make it through the day, most of us learned early in childhood to unconsciously ignore, suppress, or dismiss our emotions.

The good news is that with focused intention, we can quickly reconnect with this essential dimension of experience. That’s the purpose of this program. With Karla’s guidance, you will learn:

With this foundation, you’ll then explore and train intensively in the four categories or families of emotion. The purpose? To feel, perceive, and live with clarity and strength in the emotional and social dimensions.

Engage with the Full Spectrum of Your Emotions

Here are some common questions that Karla asks her students:

Through her book and audio program, Karla McLaren has helped thousands with these challenges. But when it comes to emotions, she says, interactive guidance can be the key to developing a whole new level of emotional mastery.

With the Emotional Flow online training course, you’ll build your skills systematically to tune in to your emotions, get them activated and moving, and use their gifts fully.

Session 1: Learning to Flow with Your Emotions

Introduces the key principles and practices of Emotional Flow: the specific categories and purposes of our emotions, how we learn to suppress them, and the phenomenon of empathy. Karla also shares new insights into the role of emotions in learning, decision-making, social interactions, and general intelligence. Then participants learn the foundational practices that will be used throughout the course: the five Emotional Mindfulness Skills.

Session 3: Setting and Maintaining Healthy Boundaries: The Angers

Why anger is necessary, the role of anger in protecting ourselves and setting your boundaries, how anger helps define our sense of self, how to work with different intensities of anger, emotional feedback loops, and the concepts of hatred and the shadow. Also clarifies in detail the emotions apathy, guilt, and shame, and how to work with them.

Session 5: Release and Rejuvenation: The Sadnesses

Explores the family of emotions that include sadness, despair, grief, situational depression, and the suicide urge. The sadnesses provide the means to let go and refill ourselves with new energies. This session shares new information on successfully working through depression, finding the optimal amount of personal space for sadness, and when distraction and entertainment can actually be beneficial. Also includes instructions for creating an effective and meaningful grief ritual.

This session includes an in-depth video session with Karla McLaren, available on-demand.

Session 7: Understanding the Physics of Stress and Resistance

How labels such as “stress,” “discomfort,” “frustration,” and “concerned” can suppress, mask, and distort our true emotions. Explains how to create healthy boundaries and proper thresholds to engage with your true emotions, and situations when you should not be empathic. Also covers the alchemy of emotional resistance, Ethical Empathic Gossip, the concept of “emotional hygiene,” responding to injustice, and how to work with difficult environments, social structures, and relationships.