RE: What does it mean to own your emotions? @ecoTrain question of the week
You make some great points here @eco-alex! I can relate to your experience of feeling controlled and acting triggered when requests are made of you. By projecting my reaction of my past experiences onto the present, I'm really being unfair to the person who made the request and my emotional state. It's like I'm playing a familiar tape, when it's really just outdated software.
Those 3 questions at the end are really spot on. I often get stuck, but this type of questioning can help me break out of it. I still find myself not owning my emotions sometimes, and it get worse when I'm hard on myself for it! Your advice for compassionate awareness is so valuable.
Thanks for taking the time to create such a helpful article, I'll use those questions next time a heated emotion arises.
THANK YOU ... im really happy you took the time to read it.. and your comments are very valuable to me! yes sometimes asking ourselves questions can really prompt us to delve deeper to answer them... ill also try to stop myself and ask these same questions! acting out is one thing, we all do it.. but being able to catch it is a real great step forward! <3 love u!
"Acting out is one thing, we all do it.. but being able to catch it is a real great step forward!" - that's so TRUE. I may know I have a pattern, but to keep doing it while knowing of it doesn't make it any better! I find myself stopping mid reaction sometimes, and other times looking at myself from another's eyes and seeing that I may be acting out of past pains. It's all part of the journey to wholeness.
We're all in this together and are all stronger together. <3 - ini