I don’t know what you mean precisely by confusion, but I personally can’t always control what my immediate primal level response is to certain situations. If I try to strictly avoid certain feelings, I usually end up convincing myself that I’m not feeling that way when actually I am. I’d rather notice what I’m feeling and then move on from there, it’s probably easier to control your thinking that way. Just because you’re angry doesn’t mean you have to act like angry.
That’s basically what I meant. The move is to notice the anger, fear or disgust and then realize that this emotion isn’t useful and can be actively detrimental. Then consciously try to switch to curiosity.
Of course, I couldn’t condense the full messiness of reality into a pithy saying.
I don’t know what you mean precisely by confusion, but I personally can’t always control what my immediate primal level response is to certain situations. If I try to strictly avoid certain feelings, I usually end up convincing myself that I’m not feeling that way when actually I am. I’d rather notice what I’m feeling and then move on from there, it’s probably easier to control your thinking that way. Just because you’re angry doesn’t mean you have to act like angry.
That’s basically what I meant. The move is to notice the anger, fear or disgust and then realize that this emotion isn’t useful and can be actively detrimental. Then consciously try to switch to curiosity.
Of course, I couldn’t condense the full messiness of reality into a pithy saying.