Controlling Your Emotions

 There are five essential steps to emotional control and mastery. Although
the complete process will finally happen in a few seconds in real life, it
is essential for our learning to break it down and see what is required at
every step.

*Step One – Awareness*
This simply means being aware of the emergence of the subtlest (finest) of
emotions, which, if left unchecked, will grow into important disturbances.
For example irritation leads to frustration leads to anger leads to rage.

*Step Two – Acknowledge *
Which means taking responsibility for the emotion by understanding and
acknowledging that I am the creator of the emotion, not someone or something
else.

*Step three – Acceptance*
Fully accept the presence of the emotion without resisting (opposing) it in
any way. If it is resisted it simply becomes stronger, or is suppressed for
another day.

*Step Four – Ascend*
This is the moment of full detachment from both the emotion and the inner
source of emotion. In the process of detached observation the emotion is
losing its power. And it is only through detached observation that the
emotion will begin to dissolve.
*Step Five – Attune*
This means returning our attention to the very centre of ourselves where our
inner peace and power are to be found. This is the purpose of meditation.