07-13-2014, 01:41 PM
there is some skill when in comes to working with one's emotions:
three points:
1) Emotions are real-time feedback/catalyst
2) Some emotions can be destructive when given free-reign, and not considering the effects it might have on others.
3) One can become more aware of the catalyst, without having to respond to it in a knee-jerk, reflexive way.
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Emotions are powerfully energising, and sometimes its quite attactive to be fully within it's wave (like a surfer getting engulfed). I'm sure everyone here is familiar with the emotion of 'righteous anger', and typing up a reply in the forums full of the sense of being absolutely empowered, and being able to knock down every single one of someone else's points. 'I'm outraged', 'I'm mad', 'i'll set the record straight!'. It's a very invigorating force. And yet, somwhere in the back of your mind, you know that not everything is in balance, and that the sense of righteous outrage is going to pass, leaving behind the consequences to reap.
It's definitely great to be authentic with oneself, and acknowledge one's internal barometer, and when it is getting upset by something you read or see. That's a self honesty. However, the true nature of honesty also involves taking responsibility for one's reactions, and is not just the candid 'reporting' of how you feel etc etc. It's taking responsibility for those emotions, acknowledging they are self-generated (with only the external circumstance being the trigger), and then processing and utilising what those emotions are revealing about the Self. Honesty, in this case, is not just s stream of unloading invective and outrage and sadness against the other-self. but rather digging deeper into the soil of the mind to find the roots of that emotion - whether that be a past experience, a malformed bias, or a lack of perspective in being able to see something from the other person's experience point (unwilligness to empathise).
Emotions (and emotional reactivity) are a great resource for balancing.
three points:
1) Emotions are real-time feedback/catalyst
Ra Wrote:*The repression of emotions depolarizes the entity insofar as it then chooses not to use the catalytic action of the space/time present in a spontaneous manner, thus dimming the energy centers.
2) Some emotions can be destructive when given free-reign, and not considering the effects it might have on others.
Ra Wrote:*There is, however, some polarization towards positive if the cause of this repression is consideration for other-selves.
3) One can become more aware of the catalyst, without having to respond to it in a knee-jerk, reflexive way.
Ra Wrote:*The entity which has worked long enough with the catalyst to be able to feel the catalyst but not find it necessary to express reactions is not yet balanced but suffers no depolarization due to the transparency of its experiential continuum.
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Emotions are powerfully energising, and sometimes its quite attactive to be fully within it's wave (like a surfer getting engulfed). I'm sure everyone here is familiar with the emotion of 'righteous anger', and typing up a reply in the forums full of the sense of being absolutely empowered, and being able to knock down every single one of someone else's points. 'I'm outraged', 'I'm mad', 'i'll set the record straight!'. It's a very invigorating force. And yet, somwhere in the back of your mind, you know that not everything is in balance, and that the sense of righteous outrage is going to pass, leaving behind the consequences to reap.
It's definitely great to be authentic with oneself, and acknowledge one's internal barometer, and when it is getting upset by something you read or see. That's a self honesty. However, the true nature of honesty also involves taking responsibility for one's reactions, and is not just the candid 'reporting' of how you feel etc etc. It's taking responsibility for those emotions, acknowledging they are self-generated (with only the external circumstance being the trigger), and then processing and utilising what those emotions are revealing about the Self. Honesty, in this case, is not just s stream of unloading invective and outrage and sadness against the other-self. but rather digging deeper into the soil of the mind to find the roots of that emotion - whether that be a past experience, a malformed bias, or a lack of perspective in being able to see something from the other person's experience point (unwilligness to empathise).
Emotions (and emotional reactivity) are a great resource for balancing.