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Shambhala Communication Skills:
Articulate Self Expression

Knowing how to create a joyful, high Integrity life means knowing how to express yourself. Knowing how to express yourself means that you must be a student of your own needs and feelings. Your can not hope to make yourself understood and/or get your needs met if you do not know what your needs are and what you are feeling.

Most people know neither. You can learn more about how to study yourself and how to discover what your real needs are through the Shambhala Life-Skills. Here you will begin to learn how to discover your real feelings and how to effectively express your needs and your feelings to others.

WHAT ARE YOU FEELING?

If you are like most people, you don't know what you are feeling. Not because you are out of touch with your feelings, but because you are "in touch" with so many mixed feelings that blend together in a kind of emotional mud. Your feelings become difficult to separate and consequently impossible to describe.

So, you must become a dedicated student in regard to your own feelings so that you can distinguish one from another and be able to speak to all your conflicting feelings. You are not a simpleton. You are a complex person capable of feeling many different ways about the same one thing at the same time. If you can not sort out your feelings, then you can not speak to those feelings … and you will not be able to express yourself. If you can not articulately express yourself, then you can not hope to have your needs met and create your life joyfully.

ARTICULATE SELF EXPRESSION

Keeping this list of feelings close at hand and using it to help you recognize your mixed feelings is the first step in being able to communicate to others who you are and what you need to make your life fulfilling.

LIST OF FEELINGS THAT PERSONS HAVE,
BUT OFTEN FAIL TO IDENTIFY

Abandoned
Adequate
Adamant
Affectionate
Agony
Almighty
Ambivalent
Angry
Annoyed
Anxious
Apathetic
Astounded
Awed

Bad
Beautiful
Betrayed
Bitter
Blissful
Bold
Bored
Brave
Burdened

Calm
Capable
Captivated
Challenged
Charmed
Cheated
Cheerful
Childish
Clever
Combative
Competitive
Condemned
Confused
Conspicuous
Contented
Contrite
Cruel
Crushed
Culpable

Deceitful
Defeated
Delighted
Desirous
Despair
Destructive
Determined
Different
Diffident
Diminished
Discontent
Distracted
Distraught
Disturbed
Dominated
Divided
Dubious


Eager
Ecstatic
Electrified
Empty
Enchanted
Energetic
Enervated
Enjoy
Envious
Excited
Evil
Exasperated
Exhausted

Fascinated
Faugning
Fearful
Flustered
Foolish
Frantic
Frustrated
Frightened
Free
Full
Fury

Gay
Glad
Good
Gratified
Greedy
Grief
Groovy
Guilty
Gullable

Happy
Hate
Heavenly
Helpful
Helpless
High
Homesick
Honored
Horrible
Hurt
Hysterical

Ignored
Immortal
Imposed upon
Impressed
Infatuated
Infuriated
Inspired
Intimidated
Isolated

Jealousy
Joyous
Jumpy



Kicky
Kind
Keen

Laconic
Lazy
Lecherous
Left out
Licentious
Lonely
Longing
Loving (love)
Low
Lustful

Mad
Maudlin
Mean
Melancholy
Miserable
Mystical

Naughty
Nervous
Nice
Niggardly
Nutty

Obnoxious
Obsessed
Odd
Opposed
Outraged
Overwhelmed

Pain
Panicked
Parsimonious
Peaceful
Persecuted
Petrified
Pity
Pleasant
Pleased
Precarious
Pressured
Pretty
Prim
Prissy
Proud

Quarrelsome
Queer

Rage
Rapture
Refreshed
Rejected
Relaxed
Relieved
Remorse
Restless
Reverent
Rewarded
Righteous

Sad
Sated
Satisfied
Seared
Screwed up
Servile
Settled
Sexy
Shocked
Silly
Skeptical
Sneaky
Solemn
Sorrowful
Spiteful
Startled
Stingy
Strangled
Stuffed
Stupid
Stunned
Stupefied
Suffering
Sure
Sympathetic


Talkative
Tempted
Tenacious
Tenuous
Tense
Tentative
Terrible
Terrified
Threatened
Tired
Thwarted
Trapped
Troubled

Ugly
Uneasy
Unsettled

Violent
Vehement
Vital
Vitality
Vulnerable
Vivacious

Wicked
Wonderful
Weepy
Worry(ied)

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