Sachit GuptaFounder, CreatorsMBA.com · Founder at CreatorsMBA.com

How to NOT Get Caught up in Your EMOTIONS? #shorts

1 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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A 1984 encounter with an Indian woman who felt everything deeply but wasn't trapped by her emotions changed how the speaker thinks about aliveness. She sparked a lifelong question: how to stay animated by feelings without getting caught in them.

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In 1984, I met an Indian woman, and when I met her, she was the most alive person I had ever met. Every emotion in the book was running through her body. She wasn't getting caught up in any of them, but she was completely animated and like just fully alive. And it redefined for me what I wanted. It's like, okay, that's the kind of enlightenment that I want. I want to be fully alive. And then that led me to what Well, how do I relate to my emotions if I'm fully alive and not get caught in them and things like that? And so that was, that was a huge, I think, turning point for me and led me down the road of a lot of study.