Emotional Awareness 4: Blinded By Feeling
Once we recognize the presence of strong emotion and have named it, the next step on the path of emotional awareness is to recognize that this feeling, this joy or sorrow or anger that can seem all consuming, may or may not be a reliable guide to reality.
In the grip of emotion, this fact can be hard to reach. If we feel this strongly, surely there must be a real, objective, verifiable reason. And often there is. Those footsteps behind us on the street may signal real and imminent danger. But equally, the sound of footfalls might just mean someone is walking behind us. Read more