Lucid & Rooted Emotions · Due Context for Our Feelings
⁘ “Don't suppress your emotions. See and take them in their due contexts. Don't just dive into the push and drive there. You're default off-center, out of balance, at risk of veering off the road of reality. Notice the momentum in your emotions, reflect on their origins, recognize their purposes, and make them count — do justice to your feelings.”
Emotional states shouldn't be the primary guide and reference
into our orientation and decisions in life.
Now, no one's saying that you should suppress your emotions,
pretend that they do not exist.
All I'm saying is,
they need to be seen and taken in their context.
You see, when you're in the middle of an emotional reaction,
there's a certain push and a drive in a particular direction there.
You are, by definition, off-center, out of balance.
There's a certain potency, force, momentum there,
and that's good – but is it called for at this time?
Are your emotions even rooted in the actuality of what is,
or is it simply stemming from your interpretation?
When emotions arise from our conditioning, even traumas,
and begin to dominate our direction in life,
we are veering off the road of reality.
When your feelings and emotional reactivity
become the judge and director in your life,
not only are you driving without a well-rounded compass unto yourself,
you also make life very difficult for others.
When everyone needs to tiptoe around,
watch their words when you're present to not trigger negative emotions in you.
Because you are ever so convinced that truth has been validated,
because you feel very strongly about it.
The momentum rising in your emotions,
recognize its origins,
recognize its purpose,
and make it count.