01-05-2016, 12:27 PM
In some ways "emotional stability" is our way that we cut ourselves off from emotion, our choice of whether to feel or not. Because the nature of emotion is something that comes at us without any rhyme or reason, we are utterly subject to it. Many times I choose not to empathize it has nothing to do with the other's feelings but with my own and my own structure of resistance to emotion that allows me to maintain coherence. To see somebody swept away with emotion and not reinforce that coherence is to confront my own powerlessness, even to resent their reminder that I have the same cauldron of emotion not fully realized within just as capable of sending me for a loop.
To offer empathy and aid to one, as Jade says, is a gift to yourself in that it is a chance to balance within by working without. It does not operate on the rationality that built the structure of resistance to raw emotion. What you offer in being there is the experience of not encountering this abyss alone. What comfort arises from that taps into something that neither you nor the other have control over.
To offer empathy and aid to one, as Jade says, is a gift to yourself in that it is a chance to balance within by working without. It does not operate on the rationality that built the structure of resistance to raw emotion. What you offer in being there is the experience of not encountering this abyss alone. What comfort arises from that taps into something that neither you nor the other have control over.