knowing and managing emotions

Finding your bearings among your emotions

Every observatory studies the outer world. This one is turned inward: art, psychology and introspection to tell real problems from fictitious ones, and to make choices of personal growth.

Inner Observatory

Why an inner observatory?

Have you ever looked deep inside yourself and found it difficult to move through emotions and thoughts? Some inner parts pull one way while others pull the opposite way — then resistance arises, with discouragement and a multitude of problems arriving from every side.

Every observatory serves one need: orientation. At sea or in the desert you must know the stars and keep a constellation of reference. Yet all those observatories study the outer world. One was missing — an observatory for what happens within us, in the world of emotions and thoughts. So we built one.

A navigator watching the stars

A navigator watching the stars — Microsoft Designer

Real problems and fictitious problems

Our reasoning mind has two main activities:

Solving problems

Precious work — especially when it is guided by our intuitive possibilities.

Creating problems

The mind is remarkably good at this too: it conjures a myriad of fictitious problems that hide the real ones. The result? Confusion.

If we cannot tell real problems from fictitious ones, we become “problematic” people. The Observatory shows the inner forces — the ones in command within us — with their dynamics and their cover-ups. Recognising intentions, expectations and goals leads out of the emotional muddle, towards targeted choices of personal growth.

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