I don't know what they tell the kids now, but when I came up they told us to vent our emotions. They said that you were like a bottle, and if you didn't "let off some steam" or "vent" your emotions, they would build up to the point where the bottle explodes and you freak out. Lose it.
You can do anything you want with emotions. Especially Release them. You can discontinue indulging an emotion and release it. Give it back to God, the Universe, and everything.
The "bottle or vent" paradigm is a false dichotomy. It tricks you into believing there are only two options, when there are tons, and in this case both of the options given are bad for you. Go figure. You don't want to "bottle" because of all the exploding, and you don't want to "vent" because the recent science teaches that "Venting your anger is practice for being an angry person."
Anger is not an emotional pattern that I need to be reinforcing to my subconscious mind. For some it is. Not me. I do it too much. I don't need to be venting and repeating patterns to my subconscious that do not serve me anymore.
When you release emotion, some people will tell you "Oh, well I hope you transmuted it before you just set all that Anger adrift in my Universe."
I don't think it works like that. First, it's my universe. Second, I think it's just energy. The only reason it was Anger was because I had it.
The new energy or information I take in generates a response. My own perspectives, the story I was telling myself, and my belief structure determine the form that response will take. Indifference, Happiness, Anger... When I release my Anger back to the universe, is it even still Anger?
Or am I, through conscious force of will, transmuting the Anger into a feeling of Surrender and Release?
As far as Karma and Cause and Effect are concerned, I think you have to be aiming at something for those rules to come into play. If I'm just surrendering the energy back to the universe, I don't think we're playing the Karma or Cause and Effect game. And if we are playing that game- what is our intent? To fight less with your brothers and sisters just for the sake of less fighting? Because you do it too much? Well.. shit, man. That's a blessing. You just made Karma your ally.
You can do anything you want with emotions. Especially Release them. You can discontinue indulging an emotion and release it. Give it back to God, the Universe, and everything.
The "bottle or vent" paradigm is a false dichotomy. It tricks you into believing there are only two options, when there are tons, and in this case both of the options given are bad for you. Go figure. You don't want to "bottle" because of all the exploding, and you don't want to "vent" because the recent science teaches that "Venting your anger is practice for being an angry person."
Anger is not an emotional pattern that I need to be reinforcing to my subconscious mind. For some it is. Not me. I do it too much. I don't need to be venting and repeating patterns to my subconscious that do not serve me anymore.
When you release emotion, some people will tell you "Oh, well I hope you transmuted it before you just set all that Anger adrift in my Universe."
I don't think it works like that. First, it's my universe. Second, I think it's just energy. The only reason it was Anger was because I had it.
The new energy or information I take in generates a response. My own perspectives, the story I was telling myself, and my belief structure determine the form that response will take. Indifference, Happiness, Anger... When I release my Anger back to the universe, is it even still Anger?
Or am I, through conscious force of will, transmuting the Anger into a feeling of Surrender and Release?
As far as Karma and Cause and Effect are concerned, I think you have to be aiming at something for those rules to come into play. If I'm just surrendering the energy back to the universe, I don't think we're playing the Karma or Cause and Effect game. And if we are playing that game- what is our intent? To fight less with your brothers and sisters just for the sake of less fighting? Because you do it too much? Well.. shit, man. That's a blessing. You just made Karma your ally.
