Dissolving and emotions

[Anonymous]

Hello All,
I’m interested in any experiences you could share as far as the impact of dissolving on your emotions, and in general the relationship between dissolving and the psyche emotional body. Do you find that emotional states are more powerful? Does this practice help you work with them, and if so – how? I’m not thinking so much about situational emotional reactions (getting-mad-at-your-boss etc), but stuff coming up out of the blue, during dissolving practice and in the daily life.

[Anonymous]

Hey Magda,

I’ve meditated (Inner Dissolving) daily for the last several years. I’ve noticed some general trends in my overall emotions. I notice I have less anger, hate, sadness and anxiety. Basically, I experiance negative emotions less frequently. And when they do come, I notice they pass more quickly. Things that might have pissed me off all week, now are over and done with more quickly.

I also notice that I experiance nice emotions more frequently. Joy, love, forgiveness, patience, tolerance, acceptance are all more common.

I’ve noticed that I’ve been able to gradually forgive people for things that I once thought were unforgivable. It’s been fascinating watching my thoughts and emotions slowly evolve on a particular issue.

A tongue in cheek example might be someone that you really hate. They once did something very bad and ever since then you’ve hated them. You often times day dream about running them over while driving a very large truck.

Then you meditate for a month and you notice that your thoughts have changed slightly. Now you think about running them over while driving a car.

And you notice that the more you meditate the more your thoughts change. Little by little. It might progress like this

• You run them over while driving a large truck
• You run them over while driving a car
• You get into a fight and you beat the crap out of them
• You punch them once really really hard
• You yell and scream at them and shove them
• You yell and scream at them without shoving them
• You don’t raise your voice, but you really let them know what you think of them
• You more calmly talk to them about how you felt and maybe you listen to them a little
• You talk to each other
• You work things out and become friends once again

In between each line on that list you might meditate for a month. But it fascinating how your own internal thoughts and emotions can genuinely change over time. Thoughts that at one point would have been impossible for you, are now effortless and natural.

This is one of the experiances that made me appreciate how powerful meditation can be. I always thought that people that meditated were just learning to force themselves to act in a certain way. That they really still hated Mr. John Doe, but they forced themselves to be nice to him. I never realized that they could actually change their thoughts so that they no longer hated this person and that instead they actually felt warmly towards him. Amazing!

Hope this helps,
Janak

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