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OUR EMOTIONS WRITE OUR 'DESTINY' On this Sunday after finishing the job of weekly payment of my some daily wedges staff...i was busy thinking on New Week's working plan. Suddenly one from engineer staff rushed in my cabin without my knowledge. i saw at him bluntly and shouted at him for entering in my cabin and disturbing me. He was so surprised by that as generally people around me know me for my coolness. he just looked at me and said sorry. When he left i was so amazed by my own behavior. Whenever i think on the role of your emotions in your life and success i always think ......Nobody is responsible for your own sadness except for you. Nobody is responsible for your fear except you. You are the only person responsible for any and all of your emotions... positive, negative, and everything in between. "Would you have said this to the holocaust victims being pushed into the ovens?" In my experience, a deep need for understanding the Truth sometimes compels me to look at the extreme situations and see if a "truth" or "teaching" can be applied. In that way, this question really lands well with me at a heartful level. After all, if a teaching can't hold up under intense scrutiny, how can we trust the teaching or expect it to be applied in our own lives? My Hungry Thoughts on this are ... Those people, in those situations (no matter how extreme) *are* ultimately responsible for their own emotions. We only need study the works of Viktor Frankl, Wild Bill Cody, or Anne Frank to see evidence of people who knew that their circumstances could direct their attention and emotions, yet they themselves were ultimately responsible for their emotions. ... That said, we do have very clear biological / instinctual energies that can show up as emotions in our bodies (and thus hijack our brain functioning). For example, the threats of fear to our physical safety. This is a biological response which lasts, at a minimum, 6 seconds -- unless we take responsibility for that experience and choose to take conscious control of it (such as through breathing). If we step into conscious awareness, we can end those hormone cycles more quickly. If we allow the cycle to go unconscious, our body will continue to flood with stress hormones about every 6 seconds. When we're stressed out, the most important thing we can do is take a deep breath and do something, anything, to gain distance from the difficult emotion. .... I also feel that taking any teaching out of context is a disservice to the teaching. What I mean by this is that while I absolutely do believe that we are each responsible for our own emotions, I would *not* speak that to people in extreme situations (such as the Holocaust) -UNLESS- the moment called for it. My words (if any) would likely be oriented more towards direct expressions of compassion. .... It's important to remember that my primary orientation is towards being Present and in the moment. From this place, the Truth will arise. Therefore, while hypothetical situations can be very helpful to understand teachings - exploring those hypothetical situations cannot *ever* be considered a remotely accurate substitute for personal and direct experience. This is why I say that in the situation described, I don't fully know how I would respond. I can't know these things in advance. I can only know that when I am totally Present, and oriented towards compassion, the Truth will arise as needed. In this way, what I might say to one person in that situation could be a total 180 degree from what I'd tell another person in that situation. Thanks for reading my random thoughts. |
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Reality may be very different from my Thoughts as they are RANDOM
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2/5/2019 3:29 am |
i really enjoy your “random thoughts”. Your perspectives are thoughtful and thought provoking.
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i really enjoy your “random thoughts”. Your perspectives are thoughtful and thought provoking.
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very nice and thought provoking 
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