School of Awakening: How to Observe and Transform the Energy of Emotions (Part 3)

And again, something vital that children should learn at school is how to recognize their emotions. Because children have very strong emotions. And without the ability to recognize your emotions, the emotions take you over completely. What that means is the emotions, when emotional influx comes, it takes you over. It controls what you say, it controls what you do, it controls what you think. Then the emotion is in charge of you. And what is an emotion? And again, like a sword, is an energy entity. In emotion two is an entity that is an energy form. You cannot see it, but you can only see how it manifests in the external world. But an emotion is an energy form that lives in you. It's a little entity. And if you recognize it, then there's an awareness there. Without awareness, often you can easily be run by your emotions. And that means the emotion, whether it be, let's say it's. It could be anger, it could be sadness, could be anxiety, whatever it may be deep regret, jealousy, envy, whatever, whatever it is, the emotion this energy invades, which at first you might feel in the body. It then rises up into your mind and then it controls your thinking. So when you feel deeply negative then, or angry, then the emotion rides into your mind and every thought reflects the emotion that you feel because the emotion is sinking through you and the emotion is feeding on your thoughts. So the loop happens, the vicious circle. The emotion creates thought and the thought amplifies the emotion. So in the case of anger, you get more and more angry. The more you think about it, the more angry you get, until finally you lash out, completely lost. And of course, if it's a child also experiences that sometimes very stump. Children have temper tantrums and. Or they may other but very violent emotions. Some children have learned that the only way they can get attention from their parents is by displaying violent emotions, because otherwise parents don't give them attention. So a child would say, as you know, if you probably aware of the term I use, pain body. Pain body is the term I use for an accumulation of old emotion that still lives in you. It's unrecognized as emotion. It lives in you as an entity. It's an accumulation of. Of negative emotion, often goes back to early childhood. An accumulation of negative emotion that hasn't left you, that dwells in your body somewhere. And I call it the pain body. And it's helpful to look at it as a little entity, almost an entity that lives in you, a gremlin that lives in you. And sometimes it's dormant for periods of time, but it cannot stay dormant forever. It has to Occasionally rise up into your mind and then suddenly you get taken over by this old emotion. Sometimes it's triggered by an event and you usually know it's the pain body. When the reaction to a triggering event is out of proportion to the triggering event, the reaction is far greater than would be warranted by the triggering event. And that usually means it has triggered old latent emotion in you. The pain body, it's come to life. And then it takes over your mind and you are no longer you. Then you are the pain body. You are the old emotion that lives through you. If you have a partner, the partner. If the partner doesn't know you well yet, you've only just moved in together or got married. And then the partner is suddenly surprised that you. That you are no longer you. You're some weird, awful jerk that. What is this? You may not know it's the pain body because you just think you made a terrible mistake. But your partner's pain body may awaken yours. And then you have a wonderful drama that. And the pain body loves not only negative thinking because every negative thought feeds a thought is energy, it feeds the emotion and the emotion gets even stronger. Then you have another thought and feeds. This is the loop. And so if you are. It is also when you feel very bad about your life, you're very unhappy about your life. What you call your life. These are. It's a narrative. What you call your life is a narrative. It's. It's a sequence of thoughts in your mind that are repetitive. A repetitive sequence of thoughts is what you call your life. And for many people, this. This thing that they call my life is a huge, burdensome, dreadful thing that they carry around. That is a very unhappy thing. My life. Whenever I start thinking about my life, I get more and more unhappy. I'm not talking about me. I'm just. Whenever I think about my life, I get more and more unhappy. And. And the more unhappy I get, the more I want to think about it. It's. It's. I call it the. It's. What arises here is the addiction to unhappiness. It's. It's actually addictive. No. Why is it addictive? Because the emotion wants more of it. It's more of itself. It wants to be fed by the thinking that reflects the same energy which. It's the vibrational frequency, so to speak, of the emotion. So every negative thought feeds the negative emotion. A positive thought cannot feed the negative emotion. A thought that. Oh, what a beautiful sky isn't that. This gives the devotion, doesn't want that. That doesn't feed it or my life is so wonderful. No, it's not. The emotion loves the thoughts, but it's not only the thoughts. What it loves even more is to get the same emotion from others. And this is how the pain body operates. It then goes to whoever is around you at the time, your partner or at work or family member. And the emotion will then speak through you and say something negative in order to provoke a similar emotion in the other person. It's all unconscious. It's crazy, but it's normal. And so the. And again, here we have. It's the. The unobserved mind, lack of awareness. The unobserved mind gets taken over. It gets taken over by toxic thoughts. It gets taken over by emotions that arise. They could be, could be your old emotions from the past, the pain body that come up periodically and then subside once. If you, Once you've had a drama in your relationship lasting for an hour or two or the whole day, then the pain body subsides and the next day you wake up, you're a bit more conscious again and the emotion has subsided. Your mind is not quite as crazy as yesterday. It's still not very. Not conscious, but not quite as crazy as yesterday. And you wake up and then, oh, you can't even remember what it was all about. The drama that you had with your. Whoever it was, you think, what was. How did it all start? It didn't matter how it started. The pain body needed it, wanted it. So the. Again, lack of awareness. Through lack of awareness, you are at the mercy of, of your emotional fields. So the, the moment awareness comes in, the emotion may still be there, but you're no longer totally possessed by it or trapped in it. It's still there, but at least there's an observing presence there. And that's an enormous step forward. So whenever you feel emotionalizing, that is of a very negative kind. Let's come back to mom for a moment, to what I said about telling yourself how unhappy you are or how awful your life is or how awful other people are, whatever this narrative may be, then recognize that there is a very strong energy in you. The emotional mental energy. They've come together and suddenly be the observer, say, oh, for the past hour I've been thinking bad things about my life, but is it really that bad? Because I'm sitting here breathing, looking at the plant and the sky and feeling the aliveness in the body. You're beginning to get out of your narrative and into the present moment. The only way where there's free. The only place where there's freedom from the past, from the conditioned mind, conditioned by the past, is the present moment. So it's always. To become aware is inseparable from present moment. The power of the present moment arises the moment you become aware. And aware is you are the observer of your inner states. And then you're no longer at the mercy of your inner states. Freedom arises. And so the emotions, for example, cannot renew itself anymore through using your mind. Because then you say, there's no. I don't want that. You recognize a dysfunctional way in which the emotion is linking up into your mind. And you come into the present moment and again breathing and deep, breathing deep into the abdomen a few times. And your attention follows the breath. That's the important part. And then you feel the aliveness that pervades the entire body. And there may still be an emotion in there. It may not have gone away immediately. There's still whatever it is, the anxiety, the fear, the heaviness or the anger. You can still feel it somewhere in you, but you're not consumed by it anymore. It's still there. And not. It's. You can. It's. You can live with it. It's not that bad because you are the awareness that's around it. And as the awareness deepens, it begins to, the way I put it, transmute the energy that was trapped in the emotion. It was energy that got trapped in early childhood very often. And through the awareness it gets. Because the awareness also means that you. You allow it to be there in this moment. It's not renewing itself through your mind, but in this moment, this is what you feel. Awareness allows, gives it space, is the space for it. There it is, I feel this, can still feel the anxiety. But because you're aware, the anxiety does not rise up into your mind and controls your thinking anymore. That's an important difference. And so you feel it, and then it gradually diminishes. It doesn't renew itself anymore, but you allow it while it's there. You say, well, that is. And you may be able to feel other parts of the body that are actually fine. Anxiety may be here in your chest area and. But in your. Your hands are fine. You feel the energy in your hands and your feet and your arms and a lot of the rest of your body. You feel that aliveness. Let's see how you begin to be free of the pain body or any. No longer at the mercy of emotional energies. And that again, children could learn that easily at school by the game playing, for example. And parents can teach their children if children have bouts of anger, for example, sometimes some children do. It's not uncommon. This could be already the young, the pain body in the child. After it's happened, talk to the child and say, what was it? What happened yesterday when you started screaming and throwing things? What was that? What did you feel? Can you paint it? What would it look like? If you make a picture of it, what color is it? Does it have a name? That thing that comes into you from time to time and makes you throw things, does it have a name? If it had a name, what name would it have? And by asking these questions, the awareness in the child grows. Awareness of it could be done as game, even as playing it out in games at school and so on. So that fostering the awareness in children as the most important subject in school, the foundational subject at school, of course, should be awareness. I mean, is that so difficult to understand? The most consciousness is a primordial subject that underlies all other subjects at school. And then it's. So that's how it starts. So now we, most of us do it as adults. We. What could have perhaps been done in a more enlightened civilization at school we do it as. And that's fine. At least it's happening now. And eventually it may even reach politicians and media people. Eventually, even they may be destined to become conscious. So in the meantime, I recommend that you don't. That you're very careful with linking into the collective at the present time. Especially be very careful when you connect with social media, mainstream media, whatever media it is, because there is, in many ways, it is toxic and very unconscious. So you wouldn't voluntarily expose yourself to a virus that's quite dangerous. You wouldn't go out and say, okay, well, I'll go to an environment where many people are infected with this virus and hope for the best. I wouldn't do that. In the same way, be very careful when you link into those forms of media, because a lot of what's going on there is a viral infection of the collective. So, yes, a minimum to know what's going on, that's fine. You want to know what's going on. But beyond that, you do not need to listen for one, two or three hours of five people on the screen talking to each other, how dreadful the situation is. And because you absorb that and don't expose yourself to unnecessary risks of catching collective mental viruses. Although, of course, the more present you are, the more immune immunity you have. But still, you wouldn't even want to. Even if you have the immunity, why expose yourself to that? It's more important that if you contribute to the discourse through social media or whatever, if you use any of these things, whatever they're called, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, whatever, Just make sure that everything you put out is conscious. It's not a reactive thing, not attacking anybody. Don't confuse the virus in that mental virus that people get infected by with who they essentially are. So whatever you put out, make sure it's something of a constructive nature that does not contribute to human unconsciousness, but diminishes human unconsciousness. So it's a wonderfully challenging time we live in, but that's a good thing. So emotions, awareness. Catch the emotion as it arises. Especially if old emotion, pain, body, emotion. Detect it, recognize it for what it is. That then you've already won half the battle, so to speak, recognizing it for what it is. Emotion, odd emotion. Stay present as the observer, the witness. So you are here to bring sanity into this world. That's a good life purpose, to bring consciousness. One could even define this as your main life purpose, to bring consciousness into this world. The light of consciousness. You could be the light. Of course, that reminds me of the famous saying, I don't know who first said it. It's attributed to various people, whether it was Nelson Mandela or somebody else. Be the change that you want to see in this world. So that's very true. So be the light of consciousness, because that's the change that we need, that the world needs.