3 Face Your Emotions
Resist the temptation to consume something to alleviate the emotional discomfort. As a form of escape many people seek some sensual stimulation like music or movies, or certain ‘substances’, while others overwork in order to avoid the subtle discomfort of their self-created unpleasant moods. Or they become needy of others for the drugs of approval and reassurance. If there is already a close relationship with someone i.e. a history of subtle dependency, we might seek relief in that relationship perhaps without realising it is our relationship with that person that is triggering the emotional waves in the first place. The solution here is to face up to the emotions, fully acknowledge them, learn to recognize them, name them.
Gradually you will begin to see and know their cause and naturally learn to disempower them. This does however require some regular time in reflection and contemplation as you cultivate self awareness, which really means ‘emotion awareness’. Unfortunately it seems most people won’t do this until the emotions become so intense, so powerful, they are forced to. That’s why ‘too busy’, the mantra of our modern age, is more often code for, “I don’t really want to see and understand why I am feeling like this. It may mean I will have admit something and change something”.
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