Emotional Freedom
Emotional Freedom is rare, we only achieve it through practice and reason. When we lock ourselves into fear, we have no freedom. Typically, in normal life, you lock yourself into your emotions and fear. In doing, you give them a superpower of importance. Yet emotions are fleetingly unimportant, unless we get locked into them and they cause bodily pain and worse.
Emotional Freedom is being in, and understanding, your emotions. Normally our emotions are a roller coaster of pleasure and pain. Yet emotions have a part to play as they are essential in monitoring how well you’re doing in the survival game. They give you a snapshot of your current state. Therefore, they give you feedback to what gives you joy and what gives you pain. Your emotions are the perfect barometer for how life affects you right now.
Without a core practice, students of philosophy and self-understanding have no centre from which to work. The result is vacillation, scattered attention, and a lack of progress. The core practice developed by Martin Butler is TransIdealism. It is a practice based on the work by the great western philosophers.
This practice follows the well-tried and tested approach of observation to gain data so that understanding can be developed. The three stages of this practice are:
- Sense the state of the body and emotions.
- Observe the sensations and associated thoughts without judgment or intervention.
- Understand why various emotions, bodily states, and thoughts have arisen.
Understanding is a much under-rated thing. As we understand our emotions and thought patterns so we gain some power over them. The end result is an ability to live consciously and navigate life for greatest pleasure.
