I think the place for emotions is two-fold: one is a guidance system so that you know when it’s time to clean up your thinking. If you’re feeling a negative emotion like embarrassment, anger, resentment, frustration, irritation, they all feel bad, don’t they? So really there are only 2 emotions: one feels good, one feels bad: there are just lots of names for them. If you’re feeling bad, you know that you’re focused on something negative, fearful, lacking, contracted. So, it’s time for you to reassess and ask different questions. That’s number one: knowing that you alone have the power to determine what something means.
The second one is it’s a reminder for you to intervene consciously, because so many of the emotions that we experience are just patterns. We are triggered by something.
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