10/03/2018
An excerpt from the book I almost finished writing about fulfilling personal potential, this time about repeated difficult emotions (like anger), introducing the possibility to stop through a process I named PASSION. Please tell me what you thought of the idea, Avi Grinberg
"...Most people have a set of feelings and emotions that are produced by similar triggers and situations and each time it happens it feels like it is the first time. Emotional patterns basically mean that we feel the same thing again and again in similar situations. Those patterns act as recordings that usually play until the circumstance changes or another strong emotion takes its place.
For example, angry people will be angry in the same way. They will feel the same wishes to hurt others, the same tightness and contraction in their lower belly, the same flow of energy in their bodies, and the same feeling of being justified and righteous in their anger. The unwillingness to stop the cycle leaves us trapped in those recorded feelings and at their mercy.
In the moment, this reactive part of us feels terribly important but once it is over we often feel hopeless and unable to do anything about this pattern.
When I think about our bodies and how they are designed to feel and emote we are designed to feel the moment. What is around us. And our responses will not be because of a recording but fresh and fitting to the situation. Instead our attention got trained to focus on what we felt in the past.
When we do the process of PASSION our aim is to focus on recorded emotions and feelings so that we can stop them and not have to relive them again and again and free the space to fresh feelings that are corresponding to the moment....."
