Emotions are difficult to deal with because often, both we and the people who press out buttons, identify completely and falsely with our emotional states. We believe that there is such an intimate personal ownership of what and how we feel that our reactions to them come from a literally toxic arsenal that either makes us attack someone or defend ourselves. We are movie screens behaving badly, believing we are the movie that is playing.
Be aware, this identification/ownership of emotions extends way beyond the frontier of emotions into our opinions, preferences, biases, possessions, and even our convictions. We forget that many times in our lives, we have changed our minds about how we feel or think about people, places, and issues big and small.
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