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  Excerpt from  A Guide to Blis s - Your First Step into Expansion, part 2 We will focus our consciousness on one object and then carry out an expansion. We will break through limits and realize new possibilities/ways of experiencing and feeling.  We shall begin with a very simple expansion, the expansion of a positive emotion. Of course, we are not used to expanding positive emotions as they seem to be more than enough on their own. The very suggestion indicates that there is something beyond a positive emotion’s borders that we ought to find. Why would we expect this? After all, if it were up to us, we would rather abide in positivity as much as possible before sorrowfully collapsing into some negative emotion, pain or even the daily existential tension that follows too many of us! Well, the thing is that, in actuality, positive emotions in their expanded states can lead us to truly sublime experiences, overflowing bliss, and an existence beyond sorrow, beyon...

  You’ve mastered the vocabulary of emotion. You can say “I’m sorry,” “I’m thrilled,” “I’m worried,” in your second language. You know how to express joy, grief, gratitude, and frustration. But do you know how much to express? When to express it? To whom ? 🎚️ The Volume Dial of Emotion Emotional calibration is the ability to adjust your emotional expression to match cultural expectations. It’s not just about what you feel—it’s about how you signal that feeling. In some cultures, grief is public and loud. In others, it’s private and restrained. Joy might be exuberant or quietly dignified. Anger might be direct or veiled in irony. At Level 3, you may express emotion clearly—but not appropriately . You might apologize too profusely, celebrate too loudly, or offer comfort too intimately. Your words are fluent, but your emotional timing is off. 🕰️ Emotion Is a Cultural Clock Every culture has its own rhythm for emotional expression. Some cultures value immediacy—say what you...

  excerpt from  Anger Anonymous  -  CHAPTER ONE ANGER STYLES: TENDING THE FIRE “Anger’s my meat. I sup upon myself and so shall starve with feeding.” —William Shakespeare   Everybody gets angry. “But not me,” I told myself.  In my father’s drunken rages, I witnessed the devastating effects of uncontrolled anger. I saw dealing with anger as playing with fire. I could easily get burned. I decided at a young age, without really mak bing a conscious choice, to smother any smoking tinders of irritation I felt. In remaining calm and controlled, I found safety and, I believed, acceptance and admiration from others. It was only many years later that I began to recognize the awful price I paid for my pseudo-tranquility. ANGER, A POWERFUL ENERGY Anger is a natural energy, like fire. Our earliest ancestors witnessed the power of fire in lightning storms and raging forest fires. They also enjoyed the light and warmth it provided in their cold, dark world. It was like a...