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7 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
sometimes we look to label our emotions and find them confusing because there are a great number of conflicting emotions mixed in together. we feel happy for someone but also sadness for ourselves. none of our emotions are pure and neat. it's okay for them to be jumbled up.
this is also why it is important to sit with our emotions. we'll observe that some emotions are dominant, others underlying. that beneath anger is fear, beneath avoidance is grief we have not processed. we'll also observe these emotions come and go, mutable and impermanent.
the more we get to know our emotions the more we see they are not to be trusted. they are not stable or the ground we build on, just indicators of our relationships with things and people, themselves capable of change. We can see that such relationships can be transformed too.
when you have given your relationship with an object or person the space and capacity for transformation, nothing is a permanent state of mind. every moment becomes fresh with the possibility of another way of relating. and that is the seed of hope

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8 Jan
why is there a mental health impact when symbols such as parliament, of constitutional sanctity, the apex courts, are vandalised? Because it violates our personal sense of security, justice. the court of last appeal is dismantled. our vulnerability rises. we feel unprotected.
in such times we go to the primal sources of our security, which is often parental, home, groups and identities we belong to, community, religion. a banding together can give us the sense of security that comes from the herd or tribe.
These times are harder for those of us who do not have that in itself available to us. many of us who are without these primal cocoons in one form or the other. It is important to locate in these times what our sense of rootedness & structure comes from and take refuge in that
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There is a difference between releasing emotions like anger, grief, disappointment and feeding them.
Release comes from legitimate expression. Feeding comes from exaggeration.
Anger as it releases seeks oxygen. Other grievances, multiplier factors.
That's where non reaction works
It can be little tricky, but the best way to cope is to
allow the feeling to emerge by acknowledging it.
yet disallowing its growth by not reacting to it.
it's a middle path to walk.
I see you, anger, but you don't get to control me or define me.
when anger gets unlimited expression it becomes bigger than its originating event/cicrcumstance.
part of the process of contemplation is keeping our valid feelings of disappointment, regret, anger, proportionate.
catastrophization feeds.
non reactive observation releases
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17 Sep 20
Anger is adrenaline. Like sugar, it lasts as long as it receives external strokes, validation to keep it going. But in the end, it needs fuel. It demands to be constantly fed and when you cant feed it, it consumes you. The burden of anger always belongs to the one carrying it.
Most anger is projection. I am angry therefore I resonate with the things that feed my anger. You think the cure is in ending the provocation, but it’s not. It’s in ending the ability of the provocation to elicit a response in you. The origin and end is always in us
A philosophy based on anger, need, fear of elimination, grasping is a self fulfilling prophecy.
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My maid just called to let me know her daughter got 83% in the state board exams. Much celebrations here today. She's fought tooth and nail to educate her against so much of the regular societal oppression. This girl is going to rocket through life. Just you watch.
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