Let your emotions run wild and you will find yourself like a little boat tossed about in a perpetual stormy sea!

Are you stressed, overwhelmed, anxious, over-reacting and blaming everyone else for your troubles? Are you unable to stay balanced and positive about life and find you are harboring negative feelings and frustrations? Are you loaded with “great ideas and visions” yet nothing in your life shows any practical result of these ideals? Is it difficult for you to maintain your faith and optimism despite all the spiritual work that you are doing? Your life is giving you plenty of evidence that something is going in the wrong direction.

Don’t ignore these signals; they are important.

Whenever you find yourself in an emotional upheaval, you need to stop and take notice. Emotions cannot be ignored; they need to be acknowledged, understood, and healed. The emotions are powerful and move quickly through our bodies and affect us either in a positive or negative way. Emotions alter physical health as well as brain chemistry. Even when we find we have resolved an emotional conflict, our physical body and our mind will still harbor the effects of the turmoil. So it is better to heal your emotions as quickly as you can!

On the path of becoming our True Self, we will eventually realize that we cannot blame others for how we feel; we alone are in charge of our emotions. We realize that if we do not clean up our emotional body, we will be susceptible to, and an attractive magnet for, every emotion around us; we will suffer physically, mentally, and spiritually. Our visions and plans in life will get stuck and go nowhere and we will not be able to pursue a healthy material nor healthy spiritual life. In fact, turbulent and unstable emotions will halt the flow of ideas and even cause the stagnation of the inspirations and visions that you do have. Stagnated pools can become festering pits where illusions and self-deceptions of all kinds grow and multiply and add to the complexity of our unhealthy state.

The Ageless Wisdom Teachings show us how our life can change when we heal emotionally: Our self esteem will grow, our relationships will improve, we will build better communication skills, our spiritual work will become mature, and our overall health will improve. We will be able to stay detached and balanced even in the most trying conditions. Our patience in the process of life will grow and we will be able to maintain our faith and trust.

The process of healing the emotions is not a process to teach us how to fight against our emotions but to help us learn to create conditions in which the birth of negative emotions will be an impossibility.

Healing the emotions means to purify the emotional body. There are three steps to purifying our emotions:

1. Clear observation of the emotion. Observe your emotion and identify it by saying exactly what it is. If it is jealously, don’t call it love! If it is hatred, don’t call it a protective instinct. Study it, and be honest with yourself and what you are feeling. Once you have a clear observation of the emotion, you can begin part two, non-identification.

2. Cultivate dispassion and non-identification. You can become a happier person if you are able to see that you are not your emotions; there is a true and genuine person inside of you who can stand apart from that nasty emotion. Practice “watching” your emotions as they act out and see all the threads that are connected to that particular emotion. See where it came from, how it got magnified, what fed into it, how it made you feel, think, and act. Visualize what is the real you inside and how you are not your emotions. Do this step for five minutes every day until you are able to see all the threads of an emotion. Then go to step three.

3. Transmutation. This is the true alchemical process that helps you change the energetic patterns in your emotional and mental bodies. You learn how to take deliberate and conscious action to replace every unwanted emotion with the higher and more positive counterpart. To do this, once you have identified the emotion, consider what the opposite of it would be, what is the higher counterpart? Then, visualize yourself feeling the higher emotion, speaking and thinking and acting with that higher emotion. See yourself in every life situation utilizing this positive emotion. Repeat this process of transmutation for five minutes daily until the nasty emotion no longer has a hold on you.

Then move on to the next emotion using the same three step process.

Here is a brief YouTube clip from my most recent lecture on healing the emotional body excerpted from the 12-part series on the Process of Becoming Your True Self.

Yes, this can take a lifetime of work. The end result is well worth the effort. If you are serious about healing yourself and finding your True Self, I recommend the book The Science of Becoming Oneself by Torkom Saraydarian. For more advanced work, utilize one of the meditation courses that is designed specifically to guide you through the work in the book:

1. The 12-part process of becoming your True Self is a 12 month study course using the book and lectures recorded on CD/DVD.

2. The 3-5 year Meditation Course is a more intensive meditation/visualization course using the text and seed thought and visualization techniques.

Gita