Unattached Emotions

It’s easy to speak of being grateful when things go the way you expect them to go, but watch the nonsense take over when they don’t. Take control and be unattached to your emotions or they will rule you…

It’s easy to be in harmony with life when things are going as expected, but that’s not a true measure of one’s state of being. It’s when something goes awry that either one’s true state will arise or one’s conditioned state will arise. Depending on how the mind is anchored at the time the situation occurs is what determines where the mind will go and whether you will be controlled emotionally. If not emotionally tied to the situation the response will be of equanimity, kindness, and love. This is the preferred state where common sense takes hold and the situation is handled from a place of observation. This allows for a non emotional response instead of an emotional one that is derived from being controlled by the situation.

This will take practice to get to a preferred state of being unemotionally attached, but if you’re not allowing some form of quietness and discipline to develop, don’t be surprised where the mind goes. Just be satisfied with your emotional responses and be content with wherever the mind goes because nothing is being done to allow equanimity, kindness, and love to be the constant state of being. Without quietness and discipline, the constant state of being will be of emotional immaturity being in control. So practice, practice, practice, and this will allow the mind to settle so when life isn’t the way you think it should be, you will have the necessary resources in place so you’re not pulled around by your emotions as if you were a puppet on a string…