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Old Oct 03, 2015, 03:43 PM
BlueCrustacean BlueCrustacean is offline
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Originally Posted by tiger8 View Post
Also this part of your earlier post, I forgot to ask about it, the thing is I do not see how you let go of the anger just because it's managed to come to the surface.

As I already indicated, this is my main issue with the idea of improving emotional awareness, if I manage to experience an emotion that I did not focus on before, I don't learn anything from it. It does not have a meaning or direction or a visible reason for it, it's just an emotion in the moment, nothing more nothing less.

My default usually unemotional mode includes me becoming subtly aware of some emotional states when I find it's necessary and these are immediate reactions to situations so I always know the reason causing them so I know how to address them.

But this anger thingie that came up, I cannot see a reason because it is not a direct immediate reaction to some situation. So what do I do with it then?
I think you're on the right track, the fact that as you said, the emotion does not have a meaning or a reason and it's just a momentary thing. You can't be angry anymore when you truly realize that it's just your thoughts, and it's not caused by external factors. No person, place, thing, can *make* you angry. You don't have to embrace or fight the thoughts away, just notice them as a natural process of your mind and then let go.