Emotion: The body’s reaction to your mind
- A reflection of your mind in the body
If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie; the emotion will be the truth. Not the ultimate truth of who you are, the relative truth of your state of mind at that time.
Allow the emotion to be there without being controlled by it. You no longer are the emotion; you are the watcher, the observing presence. If you practice this, all that is unconscious in you will be brought into the light of consciousness.
Re-source: Recourse
Make it a habit to ask yourself:
What’s going on inside me at this moment? That question will point you in the right direction. But don’t analyze, just watch. Focus your attention within. Feel the energy of the emotion. If there is no emotion present, take your attention more deeply into the inner energy field of your body. It is the doorway into Being.
craving and resource from “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle
