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The alarm goes off. Quick! You’re awake. You’d rather not be, but it’s something of a moot point now. You look at the alarm clock and turn it off. You’d rather not have that hateful racket in your ears longer than you have to.
You are visiting a friend and you see that they have some nice, shiny toys. You feel a sharp pang of jealousy towards them for having what you do not. Rather than let it go on, you decide to let it go. You’ve just gotten a wake-up call that you don’t feel as good about yourself as you should. Now that you recognize that, you can let that emotion go. You’d hate to feel that longer than you had to.
A crude analogy, perhaps, but it gets the point across. As I am improving my practice of release, I am finding that in my emotions lies an almost untapped source of data. Like many in our society I had learned to repress my emotions, thinking that they would cause me to act irrationally.
The true result was that I had the same thing that many of us do: I had “alarms” going off all the time. Not only does this deprive us of a valuable source of data, it also wears on you because you’ve got a constant droning of noise in your awareness. I consider myself to very much still be learning about releasing and dealing more intelligently with emotions, but if you have any experience or feedback you’d like to share, please leave them in the comments!
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