Pay attention to your emotions
"Emotions are the next frontier to be
understood and conquered. To manage our emotions is not to drug
them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can
intelligently direct our emotional energies and intentions....
It's time for human beings to grow up emotionally, to mature
into emotionally managed and responsible citizens. No magic pill
will do it." -- Doc Childre
Many of us believe that we need to keep a tight lid on our
emotions. We fear that if we ever allow these emotions to be
expressed, they will do serious damage.
But if we summon up the courage to truly feel our emotions, we
discover that they don't last. The monster in the closet turns
out to be a pussycat. In fact, if we are willing to experience
our emotions completely, without resistance of any kind, they
burn themselves out in only a few minutes.
The only thing that keeps emotions alive within you over long
periods is your unwillingness to acknowledge them.
"By starving emotions we become humorless,
rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal,
reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life;
discouraged, they poison it." -- Joseph Collins
