Avoiding Your Emotions Intensifies Them
What you resist, become a lesson
Got Karma?
Perhaps that is too simple a question. How about … What does your karma look like? What kind(s) of karma do you have? What kind(s) of your karma are you not consciously aware of? How is your karma showing up in your day-to-day life? What would your life look like, if you healed the majority of your karma? Is your karma personal?
There are very subtle aspects to karma that can keep you stuck for a very long time. Decades. Even lifetimes.
I love it when the subtle can show itself.
Road rage. Right?
I mean, you could meet someone, who is known by others to be a classic example of someone who has road rage often, but when you meet them, they are charming and docile. Like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. When they, the road rage personalities, are not triggered … how do you know? I mean, how can you “see” into someone’s internal, or below-the-radar, attributes, and see what is not obvious from the surface?
How about You? Are there aspects of You that You are not aware of? If the vast majority of our karma resides in our subconscious … what gives?
When was the last time you got mad? I mean really angry? Or, flip it over. When was the last time you really laughed out loud? When were you last really happy? Really excited? Really turned on?
Mundane rules the day. At least for some people. Just look around. There are folks that live in this narrow corridor of complacency. Their own personal normal. That lane of comfort. That corridor of safety. Their own personal prison.
I realized (again) that it was (one of) the emotion(s) I never felt, that had me in a stranglehold. Had my neck pinned to the ground. I was its bitch and I couldn’t even tell you what it was or that it even existed in me. I couldn’t even tell me. The emotion(s) I was avoiding the most, were not even in my conscious awareness. I was clueless to the most prominent elements of karma I was carrying around with me. As me. WTF?
Ommmmmm. Ommmmmm. Ommmmm. (The sound of meditation 😉
I am finding my center. I am finding my zen. I am finding my nirvana. That will “save” me. That will make me a better me. Certainly. Yes. Indeed. And it can also keep you stuck too.
Finding your center will not heal what is not centered within you. You have to go out into the proverbial weeds. You have to feel, what you want to heal. Even if those feelings are dark and difficult. It is your shadow that will set you free. Well, maybe not. It is your shadow that is keeping you tethered to your karmic intensity. It is your shadow that is keeping you attached to emotional patterning. It is within our emotional patterning, among other karmic stigmas, that keeps us metaphorically stuck. Our emotions certainly are not behind ALL of our karma. But I would estimate that emotions are behind the lion’s share of our karma.
The way out of our emotional bondage is to heal our relationship with our emotions. To master our emotions is to learn how to feel them. We cannot master our emotions if we can’t even feel them. We, eventually, transcend the bondage of our emotions when we stop avoiding them. When we allow them. When we can completely feel what they have to show us about ourselves. That is when our emotions become our most valuable asset in the moment. When our emotions report to us, in the moment, what is right and what is wrong with what is going on. Like a realtime report card of sorts.
Got Emotions?
Love You
Les
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