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# Re: Exercises in Mental Discipline of the Emotions

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- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] Exercises in Mental Discipline of the Emotions
- From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:11:12 -0800
- References: <20031218183916.76456.qmail@...>

    Dear Eric,

    >> I have trouble distinguishing between detachement and repression.
    Especially when it comes to emotional tones. What is the difference
    between resist involvement, refuse to participate and repression? <<

    Repression is when you deny the *existence* of an emotion that you are
    nonetheless experiencing. Repression is done out of fear and denial.
    What I suggest here however, does not *deny* the emotion that is
    experienced. Instead, it honors the emotion and then shifts the
    awareness to a position of detachment for the purpose of truly coming to
    know the essence of the emotion. Please note that in my previous post,
    I carefully distinguished between the *experience* of an emotion and the
    *expression* of emotion. It's the immediate participation in the
    experience of the emotion that one detaches from and examines the
    mechanism of.

    With repression, you deny the emotion itself and separate yourself from
    it without ever coming to understand it. In this sense it still
    controls you just as much as if you had let it sweep you away. But if
    you do as I've suggested then you come to understand the emotions that
    arise within you. This enables you to *express* them *consciously and
    intentionally*, with the full awareness of what caused them to arise and
    what aspects of yourself are manifest through them.

    >> On this line of work, What is one supposed to do with emotionals
    difficulties rising througth self-crafing work? (seems to be reactions,
    a sense of "I"ness an old-self who resist change) <<

    Well, examine them, learn from them and transform them. Here is an
    example where emotional discipline is essential -- without it, these
    emotional reactions will delay your progress, but with it, these
    emotional reactions can move you forward even more rapidly because they
    hold within themselves the key to your advancement. Internal resistance
    actually points the way to where we *must* tread.

    My best to you,
    :) Rawn Clark
    18 Dec 2003
    rawnclark@...
    rawn@...
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