#208
Some people are more in touch with their emotions and this gives them the ability to also read other people’s emotions – and occasionally use that knowledge to get what they want from them.
The problem with this strategy is that it leads to power games where trust cannot be maintained.
Emotional manipulation is difficult to detect, but it can make you feel…
pressured to over-explain or over-extend yourself
in need to save someone from their consistent struggles in life
uneasy around someone without a specific reason
confused about someone’s inconsistent patterns (words or actions)
energetically depleted after hanging out
Emotions are neither easy to tame, nor designed to be tamed. They are meant to flow freely, so that they can guide us whether we’re on the right track or not.
When someone manipulates our emotions, this creates an “artificial loop” so to speak, which makes it even more difficult to listen to our own intuition.
