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Hi Everyone,
Jeff had a great question the other day. “If I am not my emotions” then what about positive emotions?” It’s true, how can I practice separating myself from my negative emotions, without that separating me from my positive emotions?
You are not your emotions. You have emotions, but you are so much more than what you are feeling. And again that does not mean you don’t have feeling or you ignore your feelings, discernment is all about not identifying with your feelings. If you want to control your feelings, and not have them control you, then you need to create some space between you and your feelings. Don’t identify you as your feelings. All that should make sense when we are talking about negative emotions. But the question Jeff raises is about positive emotions? The answer has to be the same. I am not controlled by my positive feelings either.
Addictions occur when we over identify with the positive feelings, food, money, sex, drugs, or alcohol can bring. When I am chasing the high or any positive feeling, it will control me, and I no longer control it.
I love feeling happy and just feeling good. There is no problem with good feelings, or feeling good. Discernment is about not letting any feeling, thought, or action define me. I have feelings, even good feelings, but I am not those feelings. I AM SOMETHING MORE. I am more than my feelings, I am more than my thoughts, I am more than any action or habit.
