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Namah Heal yourself by changing your consciousness

craving that you feel you must satisfy anyhow? After the event has passed the emotion will
If the answer is ‘yes’, then you are carrying continue. So you have to close the matter. You
negative emotions in your subconscious. And have to let go of the emotion in the same way as
such emotions will obsess you and make you you switch off the light when you leave a room.
moody, gloomy or irritable. Note: if you allow the grudge or reaction to
continue or if you try to justify having the
How do we accumulate such emotional garbage? reaction, the emotion will get sticky.

When somebody misbehaves with us, rejects Exercise-4: release suppressed emotions
us or lets us down, we become emotional.
Soon afterwards, we cover up the emotion a. Suppressed emotions always wear a disguise.
and consider that it has gone. However, it Hence, the first task is to identify the emotion
has not gone. It has only slipped into the and get a hold on it. Ask yourself: has someone
subconscious and now it continues to live there! disappointed or hurt you, and do you still hold a
And from there it maintains our complexes, grudge against this person? It may be a parent,
our lop-sided opinions and our personal a relative, a boss, a partner or whatever. (Note:
get-even agenda. Every now and then the here you take the support of an image of the
emotion surges up into the surface mind and person. However, you are not releasing that
expresses itself as our irrational impulses and person. You are releasing something within
emotional outbursts. you that you have associated with that person.)

Since childhood we have been tucking b. Next, recall the emotion. Allow the feeling of
away our unfulfilled desires, protests and bitterness to surface. (If you do this properly,
dissatisfactions into the subconscious. Hence, you will feel it.)
this emotional garbage has accumulated. And
now it is making us rigid, psychological and c. Then dry the wet (sticky) stuff. You can do
reactive. The troublesome part is that we it by re-considering the matter in a balanced
cannot see the contents of our subconscious way. (Notice the part or role you played in
clearly. Hence, these bugs can go unnoticed that happening. Consider that there was
and continue to act for a lifetime! nothing personal in the matter; and that if a
similar situation should arise you may also
Here we classify the emotional garbage into make the same mistake.)
two types: The dry stuff, which is like our
regrets and painful memories; and the wet d. Now come into the present: notice that the
stuff which is like our jealousy, suppressed situation has gone, but you are still carrying
anger and revenge. The wet stuff is sticky the emotion. As a result your mind is agitated
and so it is much harder to eliminate. and your responses are disturbed. (You
must feel the need to release the emotion.
Exercise-3: avoid accumulating emotional garbage Otherwise you cannot push it out.)

Whenever something happens that causes a e. Then, throw out the emotion. Say: “The
strong reaction in you, deal with it consciously. situation has gone and the emotion is a ‘left-

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