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My Dear Ones,

Sometimes, when emotions arise within us that we do not like there is a tendency to fight or deny their existence. Our immediate response may be to fight, in fear of the pain and heartache its presence may bring. So, we battle with the emotion trying to destroy it with sheer willpower or might. Oftentimes, we end up stressed. We become a victim and life becomes a painful and perhaps hopeless struggle. We find it difficult to accept that such emotions could exist in our life. We fight an internal battle even to the point of disliking ourselves.

We may also see the undesirable emotion within us and deny its very existence. We refuse to believe that such could exist in our world seeing no basis for its presence. So, we move our attention away from it in the belief that it is not there. We may seek sleep, drugs or company just to move our mind away from it. Of course, the diversions do not take away the root cause and ultimately we have to face it. When this crisis moment reaches it can be a sad time. We may find it very difficult to come to terms with the fact that we do have a problem.

In order to avoid this we need to take a deeper look at the human experience. If we do, we would be able to learn more about our emotional world and its duality. In this understanding we are more likely to accept that undesirable emotions are also part of our emotional landscape. They are part of our human nature. We do not have to fight with them. We need to understand them. Fear, loneliness, anger, hate and lust need not be enemies but emotions we can intelligently transform when they arise. By accepting their existence within us we learn not to fight with them. Instead, we learn to open our awareness to see other choices we can embrace. Acceptance opens the way to transformation.

Instead of operating in fear we can now use our power of intellect to choose appropriately. We can choose positive emotions over negative. However, it might be appropriate sometimes to embrace what might be seen as a negative emotion. For example, in sharing the sad stories of our friends we comfort them. What is important here is that we contain the sadness in a space where we can manage it. We are not carried away by the sadness we share. The sadness is held in a greater space that is filled with love and caring.

Fear sometimes can bring out the best in us. If we can see this when it is happening then we may be able to accept its presence and not fight with it. We will learn how to work with it. Sometimes negative emotions entering our world can be blessings in disguise as they lead the way to positive transformation.

Let us learn to accept the duality of our emotional being and use the gift of our intellect to transform the experience into a positive and liberating one.

Yours in loving service,
Vasudeva