--- In [email protected], Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> wrote:
>
> ED;
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> Do you think so?. I used this method for various years and seemed to work
> particularly during retreats. Away from retreats and after a while I have
> to admit as far as my personal experience concerns no methods have worked out
> for me so far as emotions concerns.  When I feel bad not only I feel bad
> but also have the necessity to share with other fellows human beings that I'm
> feeling bad. I don't manage to get adjusted to this buddhisht-zen
> holiness where everybody seem to have all emotions under control. Â
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> We are what we are and thinking to change oneselves is the biggest illusion
> I've ever heard from all. In fact, Can a rose change it's nature of being a
> rose and became a carnation?. Â
> Â
>  Eventually we always come back to where we were. Nothing change. There
> is no walk though it looks like as if it were. I haven't learnt anything.Â
> I know nothing.Â
> Â
> Mayka
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>
Hi Mayka. In my personal experience I have watched as as my negative
tendancies have gradually given way to more positive tendancies. There has been
a definite gradual process of evolution in my emotional reactions. You know, on
the phenomenal plane, this process of change is often so slow that it is hard
to notice. I don't see at as a matter of control, but rather of awareness and
identification. If you are aware of the negative emotional state as it arises
and mentally step back from identifying with it, the negative emotional
reaction will gradually weaken. Of course, this takes consistent practice over
a long period of time. But it is definitely possible. Recent neurological
research has demonstrated that neuroplasticity is a reality and that people
really can emotionally evolve. IMO.
Steve
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