(Steps To Process And Release Emotional Toxins 11&12)
They may trigger strong feeling in you but they are not responsible for them being there in the first place. When you are truly able to accept responsibility for your emotions, you will experience a new level of freedom.
Then your state of happiness will not be dependent upon other people changing their behavior. Shifting your awareness from object referral to self-retreat is the basis of liberation.
Each of us knows that we are mortal, yet none of us can remember or imagine a time when we didn’t or will not exist. It has been said that “The past is history, the future is mystery, and all we really have is the present.”
When we’re able to embrace the present moment through conscious choice making, a strange thing occurs. The pains of the past that we’re escaping and the fears of the future we are resisting all dissolves as one. And when we transcend time through present-moment awareness, the deepest level of healing is enlivened. In the process of giving up everything to the present, we gain everything we have longed for.