Original Advice
“DO: Name the feeling before explaining it.”
Call It Before You Explain
Your explanations are camouflage. You build theories faster than your body can feel, and then swear it’s clarity. It’s escape. When the heat rises, you flip to analysis, jokes, trivia. You turn the moment into a TED Talk. Meanwhile the feeling—anger, shame, longing—keeps knocking, unnamed, unseated, in charge. Stop running equations around it. Point at it. Call it what it is.
Naming is a key in your mouth. Words snap the leash on chaos. When you say “rage,” your nervous system stops chasing shadows and starts dealing with a shape. Precision shrinks the monster to size. Labels aren’t cages; they’re handles. You don’t owe a thesis, a backstory, or a joke. Say the name, then breathe. Explanation can come later—or not.
Cosmic Context
You are Mercury’s twin engine: quick mind, split focus. Naming slows the scatter and turns your air into weather you can steer.
Action
──────Start each hard conversation by stating the emotion in one word.
✨ You are allowed to skip the essay and speak the feeling. ✨