Emotions

Pay attention to your emotions

"Emotions are the next frontier to be understood
and conquered. To manage our emotions is not to
drug them or suppress them, but to understand them
so that we can intelligently direct our
emotional energies and intentions.... It's time for human
beings to grow up emotionally, to mature into
emotionally managed and responsible citizens. No
magic pill will do it."

-- Doc Childre

Many of us believe that we need to keep a tight
lid on our emotions. We fear that if we ever allow
these emotions to be expressed, they will do
serious damage.

But if we summon up the courage to truly feel our
emotions, we discover that they don't last. The
monster in the cupboard turns out to be a pussycat.
In fact, if we are willing to experience our
emotions completely, without resistance of any kind,
they burn themselves out in only a few minutes.

The only thing that keeps emotions alive within
you over long periods is your unwillingness to
acknowledge them.

"By starving emotions we become humourless, rigid
and stereotyped; by repressing them we become
literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou;
encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison
it."

-- Joseph Collins

from: www.thedailyguru.com