[Help] Emotional Control

[Durward]

Sources for control over your emotions. Books or energy manipulation techniques would work... I knew how to once and I forgot.

• "[Letting Go: The Pathway to Surrender]" by David Hawkins: Discusses the illusion of control and provides a method to surrender suppressed feelings.
• "[Esoteric Empathy: A Magickal & Metaphysical Guide to Inner Emotional Control]" by Raven Digitalis: Focuses on navigating intense emotions for empaths and practitioners through a metaphysical perspective.
• "[Emotional Alchemy: How the Mind Can Heal the Heart]" by Tara Bennett-Goleman: Combines mindfulness and cognitive science to "alchemy" or transform disturbing emotions.
• "[Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy]" by Osho: Offers techniques to convert negative emotional energy into positive creative power.
• "[Emotion and Healing in the Energy Body]" by Robert Henderson: A guide to using subtle energies from yoga and massage to heal emotional blocks.
• "[Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life]" by Judith Orloff: A guide from a psychiatrist on navigating emotions through spiritual and holistic methods.
• "[The Astonishing Power of Emotions]" by Esther & Jerry Hicks: Explores the Law of Attraction and how to use emotions as guidance for a higher vibration.

That said, my own experiences showed me that many of the emotions I experience are not even my own, but are another path where information arrives from great distances and for different purposes. Knowing your inner self and your own emotions helps to map what is your own, and what is input from elsewhere. Lowering yourself into the fulcrum of hypnagogic awareness can show a clearer view of what the emotional message is about or where it originates from. I assume other forms of meditation or practices can also supply energetic clarity about the sources of these. Assuming any emotions are my own is a mistake in my world.

 

[Firetree]

I have used the four water courts to express some aspects of the different ways to master the emotions . My preferred is the 'surfer' ; the emotions surge up, or become intense ... he doesnt get 'dumped' , loose balance , swirl around under water ..... he surfs it ... and its fun !

I want to add on. If you quiet your mind I found you can actually see what your feeling. Sometimes emotions disguise themselves as other emotions.

I typically when I was really young used to hide sadness with anger. Some people go there whole lives without knowing what their actually feeling.

They misattribute one emotion for another. Never understanding what actual emotion is there or why. I think some think they can label one emotion as the other and thats what emotional control is.

I don't think that is. Its what you do with the emotion given. Emotions are like currents and I think sometimes people are like the ship going through the currents. Misattributing what emotion your feeling would be like saying the currents are going south when their actually going west.

You don't control that current you just steer through and hope to get out on the other side. Thats the allegory I would use.

Yes . That's a good way too .

an examination of the whole cups suit in light of this subject is interesting .