Inspiring Quote of the Day for The Chinese New Year! Here's today's quote by Joseph Collins: "By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it." Many of us believe that we need to keep a tight lid on our emotions. We fear that if we ever allow these emotions to be expressed, they will do harm - the painful ones will be overwhelming to experience or lead us to bad behavior; the positive ones won't last and they'll leave us with a loss, another painful emotion. The only thing that keeps painful or unwanted emotions alive within you over long periods (whether conscious or subconscious) is unwillingness to acknowledge them, experience them, accept them and then let them go. Resistance just leads to persistence. Besides, we're missing out: emotions are the life energy of experience, and when we suppress emotions we also make intuitive knowing inaccessible since both pass through the right brain.
Today's article: http://www.trans4mind.com/counterpoint/index-spiritual/chopra3.shtml Emotions are more stubborn than thoughts. The glue that holds you fast to your beliefs and expectations is emotion. Whenever you tell yourself that you can't let go, you are making an emotional statement. In reality you can let go of any situation any time. "I can't" really means, "I fear the emotional consequences if I do." Your ego draws a line in the sand and insists that you will not survive the inner feelings that will arise if the line is crossed. A powerful limitation is being self-imposed here, and at the bottom it isn't true. You will survive any emotion; indeed, whatever you consider to be too much fear, too much loss, too much humiliation, too much disapproval, too much rejection has already happened. You have crossed the line many times, otherwise you wouldn't know where to draw it. What your ego is really saying is that you can't cross the line again. From spirit's point of view, however, you don't have to. There is a law in the unconscious that whatever you avoid will come back, and the more you avoid it, the stronger its return. Painful emotions don't come back for external reasons. They return because they are part of you; you created them before pushing them away. Every emotion you experience is yours. We all make the mistake of believing that something "out there" makes us afraid, angry, depressed, anxious, and so on. In truth events "out there" are only triggers. The cause of every emotion is "in here," which means that inner work can heal it. Adapted from The Path to Love, by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press, 1997). Acknowledged as one of the world's greatest leaders in the field of mind body medicine, Deepak Chopra, M.D. continues to transform our understanding of the meaning of health. http://www.trans4mind.com/counterpoint/ | Half-Price Offer for Trans4mind Subscribers: http://www.trans4mind.com/contents/WOI-Offer.html Own the most incredible inspirational library in the world, a treasure trove of personal development advice, spiritual good sense and key insights from the world's greatest health and personal growth experts, philosophers and psychologists. If you're a curious person, open minded and want to learn - then this is for you! |
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