Emotions and Balance

[3DMonkey]

42.9 Questioner: How can a person know when he is unswayed by an emotionally charged situation or if he is repressing the flow of emotions, or if he is in balance and truly unswayed?

Ra: I am Ra. We have spoken to this point. Therefore, we shall briefly iterate that to the balanced entity no situation has an emotional charge but is simply a situation like any other in which the entity may or may not observe an opportunity to be of service. The closer an entity comes to this attitude the closer an entity is to balance. You may note that it is not our recommendation that reactions to catalyst be repressed or suppressed unless such reactions would be a stumbling block not consonant with the Law of One to an other-self. It is far, far better to allow the experience to express itself in order that the entity may then make fuller use of this catalyst.

Essentially, in my understanding, even if a situation is met with "positive" emotion, this could cloud a truly objective perspective, resulting in the possibility of imbalanced actions. To be sure of a truly STO action, it must originate in an emotionally neutral state.

This out of most things presented in the Ra material seems to be the hardest concept to accept, or may seem disheartening. Realizing our emotions are distortions to be balanced, or wrinkles in a sheet to be smoothed out, our personality basically being the culmination of these distortions and emotions, I feel like the ego may perceive this as destruction (it sort of is, isn't it? for the ego anyways), and reacts in order to protect itself.

An existence where "personality" is something to be shed may seem like a very boring existence. But there was a point in time, not so long ago, I thought meditating, gardening, slow walks in nature, and things of that sort were very boring. Now, these are my favorite things to do.

See there? Those things feel good, do they? It must give you a feeling of accomplishment and emotional lift to have grown and learned?

I think to pretend we don't want to feel in order to feel a sense that we are balanced is not what Ra was getting at. Neither do I read the words of Ra as ever suggesting we try to achieve a balanced state.