There is a common teaching anent the emotions that is very prevalent in our world today. Here it is: When we let our emotions out they exhaust themselves. So the idea is that when we are angry and we let our anger out by expressing it, it exhausts itself. When we are frustrated and we give vent to our fury or frustration, then the emotion of frustration exhausts itself. When I hate someone and express my hate in words, it exhausts itself. This is the idea, however, it is a false idea.
Emotions do not exhaust themselves when we let them out and express them. The fear, the anger, the jealousy, the frustration, the hate that‘s inside of us will never go away by expressing it. On the contrary. When you express your fears and worries and frustrations, they grow. Why? Remember, we live in a world of energies and forces. Emotions are forces. When we express our emotions, we release forces. As Albert Einstein said, „Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.“ So when we have anger inside of us and we release the anger by expressing it, the force of anger is still anger. When we have frustration inside of us and express the frustration, the force of frustration has still the same frequency. It does not lessen through expression or disappear into thin air. Why? Because energy cannot be destroyed! So all you do when you express your anger, your hatred, your jealousy is polluting your own force field, your aura, in which you then have to live. This is why expressing your anger and hatred etc. only makes things worse. You are polluting your self-created atmosphere and create a force field around you that literally turns into a prison.
So if we want to be free of fear, anger, hatred, jealousy, fury, frustration and all the many negative emotions we have, we have to transmute them, not express them in their negative state. Energy cannot be destroyed, however, it can be transmuted. And so the conclusion is that the way out of our emotional misery is NOT the uncontrolled expression of our negative emotions but their controlled transmutation.
To transmute negative emotional energy means to recycle the energy by giving it a new direction. For example, when you have anger inside of you, the idea is to take the destructive force of anger and channel it into something constructive that brings you joy. In this way the force of anger is actually transmuted into joy. When you transmute anger into joy, the anger is gone. You are free. However, if you express your anger, the force of anger is still the same. It is still anger, and you are not free because the force of anger will still be present in your aura. Your aura is your self-created atmosphere that you create with with every thought you think, with every emotion you express, with every desire you carry inside of you, with every word you speak and every action you take. We all live and breathe and have our being in our self-created atmosphere. It is our responsibility to keep our house clean – not just for our own well-being and health, but for the peace on Earth.
