Reality Unveiled

by Ziad Masri

those emotions mean. That’s the trap. If someone wrongs you and you experience anger rising, then experiencing the anger with awareness in the moment doesn’t have any bad consequences. In fact, it allows the anger to express itself and dissipate. The anger stays only when you start telling yourself a story about why you’re justified to feel angry with that person. Now it’s no longer a natural temporary emotion but rather a mental story that has taken on a life of its own and fuels a whole slew of negative emotions from which you have no escape. WELCOMING WHAT IS The reality is that there is another option apart from outwardly expressing and inwardly repressing emotion. Welcoming the emotion and feeling it fully without outwardly expressing it (shouting, swearing, fighting, etc.) or internally suppressing it (burying it in your heart or ignoring it) is the way to experience strong emotions without giving them control over our lives. Outwardly expressing and internally repressing keep us in slave mode. We either react without thinking or we hold it in until one day it all blows up when it becomes too much to bear inside. To be truly free, we must feel our emotions with full acceptance. Willingly embrace them no matter how uncomfortable. What you’ll find is that they quickly dissolve. Why? Because embracing and fully accepting them is an act of unconditional love, and darkness dissolves in the light of love. And this brings me to the final concept