The messages are not just from our inner world--they are messages from our inner world as to how to react to circumstances of our outer world. Issues arise, as you touch on later, when we overreact without taking a pause to let us interpret the signals. In John Cunningham's book, which I edited, he talks about a Harvard study on the importance of receiving our emotional signals without fueling them. It is recommended that people take at least 90 seconds to filter the emotion before acting on it.