LEARN TO DEFEAT NEGATIVE EMOTIONS

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We should not become negative when we discover people using power; rather we should learn the rules of the game, and play it intelligently, according to our aims in a particular situation.
Negative emotions are things like fear, anger, envy, greed, sloth, and also pleasant things like enthusiasms, passions, and certain forms of love.
To describe an incident in one's past when one was negative dispassionately requires effort, because negativity is mechanical, and to avoid it, we have to cease being mechanical with respect to the circumstance that originally lead to our negativity.
Perhaps we do not allow ourselves to voice our feelings or change our circumstances, because we do not want to be negative, because we do not want to `fail'.
Sometimes people do appear to behave badly towards us, and it is very easy to feel negative towards them.
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At times like these, it is especially important to remember why we are trying not to express negative emotions.
It involves seeing something new, such as seeing that the person we are negative towards has done nothing unexpected---nothing we wouldn't have done in their shoes.
Recognition of these emotions can be enormously liberating, because we start to see where they are making the decisions in our life.
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William Blake It is important to distinguish expressing negative emotions from standing up for oneself.
Work on negative emotions becomes easier when we see that our repertoire of negative emotions is quite limited.
Briefly, we can see that the problem with non-expression of negative emotions is that we are still having the emotion---we are just not expressing it.
In this state, we may still be reminding ourselves that we should not be expressing negative emotions.
He realised this was a negative emotion when he remembered that he had felt exactly the same about his college degree, several years ago.
If we are tired, or hungry, or in pain, these inner sensations can often be converted into negative emotions by our imagination.
We should not fool ourselves that saying we do not want to stop being negative means we could stop if we wanted to.
Fourth Way®: Negative Emotions
What is not useful, however, is when this discussion turns into a repeat of all the identification with unpleasant emotions originally experienced.
So the first part of work on the emotional centre is non-expression of negative emotions---to stop this energy leak.
In the Work, long practice at non-expression of negative emotions and self-remembering are necessary before this becomes possible.
If we start to work in a group, we will certainly encounter and express negative emotions within that group.
The truth is, when the Work tells us not to be negative, our unspoken reply is, `But I don't want to stop being negative!' Giving up negativity is part of the price we pay for awakening.
One problem arising from the `normality' of negative emotions is that work on them sometimes involves behaving differently to conventional wisdom.
If we are self-remembering at the moment when an impression enters that would normally cause a negative emotion, it is possible to use the resulting energy for ourselves, rather than seeing it disappear off down well-trodden paths.
It is very important to understand the difference between talking about negative emotions, and expressing them.