The observation and management of emotions [IF55-6focus]

"Know yourself". This is perhaps one of the most repeated phrases in the various forms of teaching and you who have participated in the meetings of the Circle for years have also clashed with it several times, coming to feel the strength and correctness of this imperative but also finding yourself, continuously, in the face of the harsh reality constituted by the difficulty of putting those few words into practice while the "you" you seek to know continually escapes you like an elusive ghost.

You see, dear brothers, know yourself it is a demanding task patience, steadiness, will and, especially, courage because very often what comes to light is not edifying in the eyes of the beholder.

The fact is that the starting point from which, inevitably, you have to move is constituted by theremark of yours Io, who, by force of circumstances, it contains all your worst sides, those that derive from your misunderstandings (but also some valuable side, if you want to console yourself, because going deeper you would also be able to find the echoes and reflections of your understandings which, in turn, are projected on the Ego).

If you then think that the observation of yourself is done with the eyes of your ego, you will realize that the task that awaits you is a difficult solution, because the ego tends not to be objective if not, indeed, to falsify and modify objective reality according to its own expectations.

It seems to me already feel some of you think, demoralized, that then trying to know yourself, as well as being tiring and tormenting, is something impossible and ultimately useless: take courage, children and brothers, because it is not like that.

In fact, do not forget that the interpretation given by your ego to its actions is certainly not very reliable, however there is a much more attentive observer who "feels" what are the important elements observed, orders them, collects them, compares them, relates them arriving , however, to draw from them portions of understanding; this observer is, of course, your Akasic body, your body of consciousness, who doesn't care if confusing data arrives, apparently unrelated, misinterpreted and so on because his need is for the data to arrive and it is then his job to build with them what is useful for the growth of the individual.

Here we are trying to make you observe some of your aspects that you usually observe little and badly, to provide new interpretative possibilities to your conscience and, why not, new semi-unknown directions in which to move in search of "know yourself".

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We try to understand, in the simplest and most concise way possible, what it means to interpret emotions and why it may be useful to do so.

As we have seen previously, emotions are born within the astral body of the individual under a triple thrust:
- on the one hand there are the events that the individual lives daily, large or small,
- on the other hand there are the ego desires who feels more or less dissatisfied with what he is experiencing and, finally,
- there is the vibration of the desire to gain understanding by the body of consciousness. This triple thrust focuses individual emotions and provides them, from time to time, with different connotations, so much so that it happens to experience any repetitive episode in a very different emotional way.

Now, observing one's emotions inevitably helps to understand something more about oneself because to the eye of the observer (even if, perhaps unexpressed), questions arise from the observation itself and these questions, even though, perhaps, repressed by the ego , with their vibrations, they attract the attention of the Akasic body to what is happening so that it can collect elements to add new factors of understanding.

This, in my opinion, is an important point: understanding that it is not necessary to dissect one's emotions (even if being able to do it objectively is, of course, the best way to help oneself) but it is enough to give them a little Attention.
Just as it is important to understand that it is not the mental body (and therefore the thought and reasoning it puts into action) who has the possibility to understand, but the akasic body.

The mental body, in fact, is also subject to the needs of the Ego and, therefore, has a decidedly not very reassuring reliability, even if sometimes, under a very strong desire for understanding, certain elements are also understood with one's own mind and not only. with his own conscience.

Certain oriental doctrines rightly emphasize the concept of attention, rightly because it is the essential step to be able to unravel one's inner tangle.

But let's be careful: paying attention to one's emotions does not mean operating so that they are moderate, or restrained, or made less evident, or modified because these are all actions that the ego sets in motion to try to mask, not only in the eyes. of others but also to their own, what is happening to them.

Instead it means, I repeat, observe what is happening to us and, even more, what they are our reactions to events, without necessarily processing them mentally but by helping the Akasic body to collect as many elements as possible from the lived situation in order to be able to implement its processing capacity in order to find new points that are inserted into the mosaic that, in the course of a large number of lives, it goes patiently putting it together.

This may be the answer to those of you who have always found great difficulties and sufferings when they tried to apply the "know thyself" and, perhaps, macerated themselves in an attempt to understand what their reality was most intimate:

if you still have a very strong ego, using the tools of the ego (especially the mind) to go deeper and try to reveal its shortcomings causes an immediate reaction on the part of the ego that tries to preserve itself by altering the inner balance of the individual and, therefore, increasing his possibility of suffering.

If trying to understand yourself is tiring and makes you suffer, do not insist that much, since it means that you are not yet ready to be able to do it directly and, then, just observe your emotional reactions, take note of them and let them the underground vibrations of your best part work in your Akasic body and, therefore, outside of your ego. It will perhaps be an apparently slower path but it will, however, be a path and it is important to keep walking. Weather

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