Emotions have the power to overwhelm you and through you, everyone that comes into contact with you. Emotions are so charged with energy that they create very strong currents in the body and you cannot help but let the energy out. Most situations that create this kind of charged energy are negative and mostly the emotions you release are negative.
Negative thoughts create negative emotions, which in turn allow negative actions to take place. This is why the kundalini process is very focused on self introspection. It is your thoughts and emotions that you need to be concerned with, not others. It is ALL, about you healing the negative emotions, within you.
When asked to change unhealthy emotions within yourself, will you? These negative emotions may be anger, hate, dishonesty, irritation, impatience, intolerance and many others. Doing this is not easy and is not a one time deal.
How does one heal the negative emotions within oneself? Well when any situation causes an emotion within you, notice where you feel the emotions. You may feel it in your chest, or in your stomach, you might notice your hands getting sweaty, you might notice your heart racing. Whatever it is and wherever it is, notice it, then ask god to help heal the negative emotions you are experiencing within yourself. There needs to be acknowledgement and then help to heal.
Different situations will occur over and over to test whether you have worked on your emotions and healed them. This a gradual practise, even the same emotions will require healing over and over till they impact you less and less. Until the same situations, and the same behaviour patterns from others, stop affecting you, you are still at the mercy of your emotions and situations.
These tests will occur on days you are well rested, they will happen of days when you are buckling under with exhaustion, they will happen when you are time pressured, they will happen when you least expect it, they will happen with people whose behaviour you have a tendency to dislike.
Emotions are the blueprint of how you are coping with your life situations. When the emotions from a difficult situation, brings you to your knees, know it is time to learn and grow and accept. Situations are just that, situations. Your reaction to what is, determines whether you see the the situation, as good or bad. No matter how pressurized your emotions become through what you perceive as a negative situation, you are meant to react to it in a neutral way. You need to react to whatever comes with acceptance and NON EMOTION.
The very same situations will occur over and over till you learn to NOT react emotionally to what is occurring. I know it is painful but the saying is practise makes perfect and you will be made to practise, until your emotions can be controlled by you in a non reactive manner.
A good mantra to practise is, ‘I am not my emotions, I am that which observes my emotions.’