Farm with a difference

She hands me a scented candle saying “Now, I know you don’t like scented candles but I thought you might like this one”…
The words struck my heart like sticky fingers striking a piano in full force.
‘I don’t like them, so why give me one?’ I thought while saying out loud “thank you”.
This birthday present wasn’t like any other I had been given.
Not because I was given something clearly I wasn’t interested in, but because I had expressed how I felt about such objects often, when asked if I was a fan.
The point isn’t about the scented candle or my hatred for pointless things that light a room and give off a smell always associated with pooping for me, but rather the action itself encompassing the words spoken.

I’ve been witnessing the push and pull of different emotional energies since I was a child and while navigating some very bizarre and frightening situations, I’ve come to notice the way we as humans each receive and give off energy.
Farming is a term often used only for the labour of physical land, but as many humans know there is more than one ‘land’ that can be farmed, or even conquered.

We are going to focus on The Emotion Farm.

A farm unlike any other. A garden completely cultivated and grown at the expense of ourselves and the environment around us. A living breathing eco-system in and of itself, feeding and thriving off a seemingly invisible source, that we each perceive diversely yet name as impeccably similar, as emotions. A vast ocean in which we all describe ourselves swimming, and yet cannot hold one drop in our hands physically. Learning to recognise the feeling of the energetic waves as they hit us, or the freedom as we run towards them…Finding comfort in the catch of the weightless ocean beneath us.

This book is a reminder to remain calm yet firm in the PUSH and PULL of your own energy and therefore your environment, with some useful tips on how to notice the waves and navigate the animals amongst The Emotion Farm.

Emotion farming is the intentional “sheep dogging” of actions, words or intentions toward another with the intention of control.

Control does not equal care. Even though a lot of us assume that is exactly what is means either unconsciously or consciously, we are seemingly built to control.

It leads me to question at what point did control become the unconscious norm?

From an evolution stand point when the agricultural revolution began to make waves across the lands it may have become more volatile to wander into unknown territories, the forced enclosure for protection is an understandable originator for this context. And its one I like to stick to as we see with the way our physical farms evolved into communities with leaders and wars against neighbouring communes to control the production of food for the livelihood and continuation of such communities.

This is a taste of a book I'm writing