Channelising Emotions

By Zahoor Farooq

TO give in under reaction or no reaction at all is better than resorting to over reaction. A person requires a lot of energy to create an emotion. That is why most of our emotions carry our life and in many instances, our emotions keep stirring us to act. If an emotion is negative, yet potent and intense, its negativity can be leveraged to bring about positive results. For instance, a father is aware of child’s sickness, since he is the lone earner of his family, he can channelise this emotion of sadness and work more to meet the current expenses of his family in order to overcome this problematic situation at home. Emotions channelised in a proper way can generate unbounded motivation. The more emotional you are, the more you get to experience the intensity of life and in this way, more depth is added to your life. Life without emotions becomes tedious and colourless, however, to experience emotions, it is not necessary to disclose them to people. When they are externally expressed, you become disempowered. To manage emotions properly, neither do you need to vent them out nor do you require to keep them suppressed so they become infertile, but like water you have to store your emotions and learn to recycle them. Water, if let loose, flows endlessly downwards or if it is repressed, it wells up taking its own course. However, when it is rightly stored, it can be used for a long time. Emotional reaction is like water stirred on a pan, whenever joy, grief and pain is externally expressed, this expression discards both positive and negative aspects of the emotion. In order to utilise and channelise emotions for longer periods, you do not need to react but observe emotions remotely keeping ourselves apart. Which can be done by following six ways:

1. Meditate on your feelings:

You have to keep check on the flow of emotions, though, they shouldn’t be retained nor should they be constrained but consciously observed. laughter and tears are to be meticulously meditated. When sadness befalls, instead of reacting externally, sit around and meditate on these negative feelings. And when you feel joyous, internalise this joy. Whether you are depressed or cheerful, with time you will learn to control your emotions. Pangs of depression will be the stairs to joy, when the light of consciousness is gleamed on it.

2. Invite your emotions to your home:

Emotions require to be treated as guests. Before a person is invited to home, he is paid heed in order to be acquainted with him. Emotions are no less than guests, they can be taken under control as long as they are not consciously attend to like guests. In this way, you will come to know that each emotion has to a distinct personality, subsequent every emotion has to be diversely managed.

3. Be the master of chaos:

Chaos is something that troubles or upsets us. If you do not revel in chaos or you are not used to managing a mess, you will most likely fail to sustain the intensity of your emotions. If you cannot grapple with your lows and darkness , you will remain unqualified for your peaks and light. It is a skill to be gradually developed to leverage emotions to your benefit for being more productive. So you need to create a mindset that can normalise chaos of any level.

4. Trigger a continuous supply of the desired emotion:

Here you have to recall the darkest hours and the brightest times of your life, attempting to know why and how you were sad or happy at a particular point of your life? What was your highest and lowest point? And which emotions manoeuvred you into those directions? Had the same emotional state been experienced at every moment, you would have been much wiser and productive. Every inner moment would be rejoiced at its most. You would have amused yourselves taking insights from sadness and that is also a major goal of Yoga, how a desired state can be evoked and keep the inner world aligned with the outer world. You should live with this fact in your head that everything in this world which saddens or excites us is a lie , thereby taking no emotion on long rides. Thus they don’t have to be taken for terror or power. It becomes easy to control them when a change is brought about in perception. This is what author Thibaut Meurisse talks about in his book ‘Master your Emotions’.

5: Only be loud when you are overflowing:

Expressing emotions externally can be unproblematic in those cases when you find yourselves overflowing through the emotions. People, whose joy and sadness is fleeting, cannot afford to be externally loud and expressive. If you notice, your lives are mostly abound with momentary emotions. You feel terrible at one moment and on clouds nine at other. When an emotion cannot survive for long, it is not wise to neutralise the emotion by releasing it but you have to resort to non reaction.

6. Work more whenever you are emotionally excited:

Your mood and emotions keep on changing on a daily basis. To exploit emotions productively, you can avail of them by shifting your work in between these specific time periods. For instance, most of the people are energized and emotionally charged in the morning, that’s the reason difficult assignments and tough projects are done in the morning. Some feel emotionally charged at night, so it becomes convenient for them to do more work then. This is a simple and straightforward way to channelise your emotions. If you perceive your emotion like an energy drink or powerful drug, then you will realise that internalising and channelising emotions is a lot better than externally expressing them and having them neutralized.

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