Deepak Chopra, a world reknown spiritual coach, teaches on how to release emotional toxins with 7 easy steps:
1. Take responsibility for your emotions.
2. Witness the emotions in your body.
3. Define it: is it anger, fear?
4. Express it: Write down what is happening.
5. Share it with a loved one.
6. Do a ritual to release it: write it down and burn it.
7. Bring it to a closure: go out and celebrate.
The steps are easy for anyone to follow. Yet, I would say that the crucial step in this exercise is Step 1.
How many of us truly take responsibility for our emotions? Yes, we may recognise that we feel mad or upset or frustrated (Steps 2 to 3 above) but isn’t it often that we choose to blame others for our negative emotions? We find it easy to say that it is someone else that caused us to feel this angry. The fingers point outwards rather than inwards to self.
It is important that we learn that we should never blame others for what we feel. In fact, no one can make us feel anything if we don’t want to. Only when we own up and admit to our responsibility, can emotional healing take place. True insight arises. Happiness is really within our hands.
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DEAR evelyn
Once again i really appreciated these new thoughts full of life an light.
Just understand that we are the artist of our own emotional feelings and now i am trying to exercice myself to be so.
this morning , before i read this article i was a little bit bittered because of what someone told me.
And now i can feel a relief in my heart just trying to resist against external contamination to my inner system.
Best regards.
My dear Evelyn,
You’re hitting the nail right on the head!
Only we can accept the emotions that rise up within us and only we can resolve how it manifests in our life. Deepak is one wise man to heed, Evelyn. He has an inspiration not too many others poccess and freely shares of it.
Keep up the good work; love and blessings.
Jim
Mamadou, I am truly understand what it feels like. I had also found it easy to point fingers at others. It would always be someone else’s fault if I got mad or angry. It would be my kids’ fault for driving me up the wall, my husband’s fault for not understanding me, my friend’s fault for not being helpful, etc etc. Until a wise monk pointed out to me that we are really the masters of our own emotions. We become angry, bitter, frustrated based on our own doing and not others. Once I decided to take greater responsibility, I knew that I could change how I felt about a lot of things. Of course, it is never easy to become 100% emotionally “detached” but nevertheless, it is better to strive to feel and be better rather than not do nothing and be the same bitter and angry old me.
Jim, I do feel that I am on a path less travelled. I may not share as candidly with some of my friends the stuff posted here, because they will “disapprove”. However, I hope to attract more like-minded people like yourself, via the web. Thanks once again, for being so kind and lovely in your comments.
To greater insights,
Evelyn
I really enjoyed your blog. Thank you for posting Deepak Chopra’s video. I am doing a lot of personal work on feelings and emotions. I will do the seven steps he’s listed and see what happens!
FYI: I just read a book called I.M. Heart. It offers great tools and strategies for working through and healing old wounds. I hope you will check it out. I found it to be very helpful
Thanks again for the post. I will return.
Mary :>)