Do you feel like you have to suppress your "negative" emotions because you're on the yogic path? Not so...this video will give you some helpful tips I follow to deal with my Cancerian tendencies to supress and repress.
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I also want to share with you the acceptance strategies below:
Acceptance = Positive Emotion (excerpt from 'Unposted Letter', book by T. T. Rangarajan - editor of Frozen Thoughts magazine)
"When someone is doing something in a way I don’t want it to b done and I am not able to accept it, I am angry. However, when someone is doing something in a way I don’t want it to be done but I am able to accept it, I remain tolerant.
When someone has something that I don’t have, or someone is able to produce results that I am not able to produce and I am not able to accept it, I become jealous. However, if I can accept it, I get inspired.
When I encounter uncertainty and I am not sure about how I am going to handle it, and I am not able to accept it – it causes fear in me. When I encounter uncertainty and I am not sure about how I am going to handle it, but I am able to accept it – I feel adventurous.
When someone has done something that has emotionally hurt me and I am not able to accept it, it develops hatred in me. When someone has done something that has emotionally hurt me and I am able to accept it, it helps me forgive them.
When someone is present in my thoughts but is not physically present, and I am not able to accept it, I say ‘I am missing you’. When someone is present in my thoughts but is not physically present, and I am able to accept it, I say ‘I am thinking of you’.
Then the emotional equation is simple.
Something + Acceptance = Positive Emotion
Something + Non-Acceptance = Negative Emotion
So, it is not ‘something’ or ‘someone’ who is making me feel positive or negative, but it is my ‘acceptance’ or ‘non-acceptance’ of something or someone that is making me feel positive or negative. It isn’t the world, but the quality of my response to the world (acceptance or non-acceptance) that determines the quality of my emotions.
The next time I find myself disturbed by a negative emotion, instead of asking who or what is disturbing me, I will examine who or what I am resisting (not accepting). I will replace resistance (non-acceptance) with acceptance, and the negative emotion will turn into a positive one.
Emotional management begins by stopping to blame that ‘something’ or ‘someone’ and starting to take the responsibility to respond to life with ‘acceptance’."
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In light and service,
Cassandra
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