10-17-2017, 01:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-17-2017, 01:58 PM by rva_jeremy.)
AuntieMable Wrote:"...because you cannot protect yourself from emotions." I'm not sure that is always true. There are some that create walls within themselves to block emotions such as a building a wall around the heart after being hurt too many times in the pursuit of love. They close themselves off from this emotion thereby not allowing anyone to become close to them. It may not be a good or healthy way to deal with emotions, but, in effect, it protects them from emotions that they consider painful. Sometimes these walls are very difficult to overcome. Just thought I'd point that out.
Thanks for calling me out on this. I think cutting yourself off from feeling is not a defense so much as a deferring from the larger, spiritual, time dilated point of view. But I certainly agree with you that this is something people can do.
However, I really feel like I was a bit sloppy in that podcast, the more I listen to it. I should have been clear that what I was speaking about was specifically the polarizing aspects of emotion. Without feeling emotion, I believe you have nothing to work with in terms of making a choice. Without emotion, there is nothing at stake in choosing one's path. The positive path accepts, the negative path controls -- and by control, they don't cease feeling the emotion so much as channel the energy into their desired, self-serving end -- but there has to be something to accept or control. Not feeling emotions is a form of hibernation, deadening and numbing the self to protect it.
Perhaps for many people catalyst just becomes overwhelming, and the corrections to pre-incarnative programming can only be dialed in once one is on the ground, so to speak. In that sense, maybe we should have more respect for these walls sometimes. I often wonder whether an ideal like health matters in a situation like ours, where everything is so mysterious, and what hurts actually helps us grow. There is so much uniqueness to the paths we walk.
Thanks for your kind words! I hope you're doing well, it was so wonderful to meet you last month.