Our emotions and feelings comes from the Mind Body – the MANOMAYA KOSHA.

Our True Nature is to be Welcoming in the Presence of any situation, idea, belief, emotion or feeling.

However, Ego and Mind affords us to be defensive and reject or suppress many emotions, feelings, beliefs and ideas or a person we simply do not want to deal with, or to define and protect our separateness, our unique-ness, fears and failures, pain and heartfelt injuries and insecurities.  When these has an opposite – Oneness, Fearless, Successes, Pleasures, Heartfelt Compassion, Safety.  By avoiding the one, we are also suppressing the opposite.  In doing so, we loose our sense of Integration and feeling of Wholeness, of Harmony and Inner Peace.

Is there an emotion or feeling without an opposite or is it our ego-nature to dwell in one-sidedness when it comes to our emotions?  We love.  We suffer.  We have conflict.  But none of these emotions is possible without an opposite.  Darkness cannot exist without light.  Conflict without peace.  Love without ignorance and hate.  There is a high because there is a low.  The lie is there because there is a truth to be told.

In any situation, the opposite emotion is also present.  That is if we allow ourselves the insight into the experience and what it really is that we are repressing or unwilling to allow ourselves to feel.  What is it that we are suppressing that comes to the surface in a re-active or defensive way.

For every idea there is an opposite idea.  These opposites are complimentary polarities of our full and total awareness.  We refuse emotions and feelings because we don’t want to be with them.  It becomes suppressed and unresolved and pops up as “I should have” or “you should have”’s.  All of these emotions are natural movements that happens in the body and the mind and will pass.  However, they pervade our lives if not dealt with in its totality.  If you are rejecting the experience of pain, it is most probable that you are also fearful of experiencing or expressing your feelings of joy.

Our Ego separates us from the world, making the world a place of me against you.  It splits your world into Self and Other.  It makes it impossible for you to understand and accept the interdependence of all beings, and the interdependence of opposites.

The ego and mind wants you to avoid the opposites.  The mind holds deeply onto what the feeling is and brings defensive reactions, threats, unstable remarks and outburst, and holds on to the emotion like holding onto a pole.  This is how we fall into the sea of suffering.  The sea of pointing fingers, regrets and blame.

Every emotion has an opposite and if we welcome the entire spectrum of emotions and feelings, without any fear, we start to learn about our true underlying nature.  We learn and observe our actions and defensive strategies.  With this insight we can defeat Ego and Mind.  We can accept that we will also sometimes experience a fall, being confused, overwhelmed, threatened by emotions, ideas and beliefs.  We can welcome these confronting situations and emotions then with equal grace as we do the situations where we are experiencing harmony, love, respect and understanding.

And when we make this transformation to accept all behaviors towards us, hurtful, harming, disappointing or the opposite, understanding, enriching, pleasant, it is important not to let the Ego or Mind once again interfere and say “I”, it is me that is accepting”.  For when we make this welcoming of all emotions and feelings a shift in our consciousness, will we see that this is whom we really and truly are.  Our True Nature is a Welcoming Presence.  It is not another product of the Ego or Mind.

We become both the witness and witnessed, the subject and the object in the heat of the moment.

We act out when emotions has been suppressed.  Eventually they will bubble to the surface.

We are Soulfully ready to welcome and meet every challenge that comes our way.  Closing our hearts for one emotion will also lock out very opposite of this emotion.

We are One.  If we only feel halfway, for ourselves, with our Ego and Mind, we harm and hurt the very ones we love and honour most.  We are safe, even in the wake of the most intense heart injury, for just on the other side of this hurt, there is your innate true being of Compassion and Love.  Feel and explore the highs and lows of life.  Only by doing so, are we able to become integrated and whole.  Only by feeling this inner safety, that is not defendant on any situation, can we love fearlessly and be rejected fearlessly without counter actions of the ego’s and th “ I should have or you should’s”

So many opposite beliefs, opposite ideas.  All of it based in the Ego and Mind.

“Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing is a field.  I’ll meet you there.”  -RUMI

Welcome the good.  Welcome the hurt.  Listen and feel and accept without fear.  Being welcoming in presence is whom we truly are, as we are One and we are Whole.  We are Nothing and we are Infinite Possibility.

Most of all, we are safe in the wake of any situation.  Feel and listen.  Fearlessly.  This brings right action.  Suppressing and denial results in the opposite.