Stale Emotions

Nothing from the outside truly controls you regardless of what it is, either real or made up. It’s the stale emotions attaching to what happens that causes them to control…

Staying with the flow of what arises in our daily life has immense value in the process of waking up from the sleep of unawareness. What happens if one’s awareness isn’t expanded upon, the arisen emotions become stale and they control you; they become the master and you the slave. The stale emotions is what causes one to react to life in the way that they do. Nothing from the outside truly controls you either real or made up. It’s the stale emotions attaching to what happens that causes one to behave in a certain manner. When one awakens, the attachment to emotions lessens and their control lessens.

This is how it is with all our emotions, fear becomes crippling when it becomes stale and it takes you over. It’s doesn’t mean things won’t scare you, but it’s doesn’t have to be given the energy that turns it into fear. This applies to any emotion you become attached to. The associated emotion becomes stale and there’s no telling what behavior will arise. I guarantee you it’s not going to be a behavior that has love flowing as its base. Emotions will arise, it’s the way the brain seems to be wired, but our energy doesn’t have to give them more power than they’re worth. We can cry our tears or be fearful of the future. We can dislike that things aren’t going the way we think they should be, but the bottom line is it’s only when the emotions are stale that they’re given the energy to stop the flow of truly living life and cause not only your own suffering, but the suffering of all beings…