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In many Spiritual traditions, role of emotions is limited. It is often said, one should refrain from expressing too much. Even in day to day life, we often hear the phrases- ‘strong individuals don’t cry’, ‘don’t cry like a baby’ etc. With the exponential use of digital communication, it has become far more difficult to express emotions, unless or until you are good with ‘emojis’.
I, on the contrary, believe emotions are the most beautiful gift to our existence and helps greatly in our journey. Today, what differentiates a life from a machine are emotions; else we are nothing but robots. Every emotion is positive, it is how we use them. For me, fear is as good as courage. Fear of failure is one of the most common fear that majority of successful people possess. Riding a bike at 200km/hr, NO FEAR, I have no negative emotion. BANG!! Accident happens. Fear here, can save someone’s life. Fear of losing someone, fear of death, fear of loss, these can stop a person from riding at that speed. When you ask most of the athletes what made them achieve the impossible, the most common answer is- THE ADRENALINE RUSH- the outburst of emotions did it ALL for them.
I consider emotions as teachers. They are here to teach us about existence, and how we master them. Emotions are like subjects we have in school, the emotion we are weak in, the more teachers we have. For example- If Rahul feels he is not good enough and thus feels under confident, he will keep coming across people who would make him feel that way. What Rahul needs to do here is accept his weakness in that particular emotion and start working towards it. He should sit down and check, what makes him better than other people, what is one thing he is very confident about and start working around it, completely accepting his weaknesses. The day he doesn’t react to the feeling- “I am not good enough”, he has mastered that emotion and next beamer shall be thrown at him. So, you should sit down and look at all the situations which trouble you at this present moment, and note them down. What you will notice is, almost all have the same core, all the situation leads to one emotion- frustration, anger, irritation, etc. If you try and run away from it, it will become bigger and come from various sources; rather you should face that emotion and not REACT. RESPOND to it. Once you respond to the emotion, the situation shall disappear, as you have mastered it.
All those who say, emotions have no space in spirituality may want to look at it in this perspective- humanity is also an emotion and very much the most spiritual aspect humans should have. Compassion, kindness, love- the most spiritual words are all emotions. Krishna is considered a complete Avatar not for the miracles he showed, but for the range of emotions he had. He danced, sang, laughed, cried, got angry, broke promises, fell in love- did everything, which a so called spiritual persona is barred from doing in today’s time. Spirituality is all about the range of emotions you have, alongside having the right awareness to use them.
Let not emotions control your existence, but, your existence express the emotions!
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