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In the same way that we perceive the outer world as an expression of our own nervous system - one person feels love and excitement when they see a dog that resembled a childhood best friend, while another recoils in fear from the implicit memory of a dog bite - we process our internal reality - our emotions - in a very similar way.
\\nI learned this through experience!
\\nWhile I am not at all proud to say this, the truth is that before I learned to regulate my emotions through the practices of mindfulness and heartfulness, I was a pretty angry and rage-y person.
\\nI was a yeller.
\\nI would yell at restaurant servers, other drivers, coworkers, employees, my wife, my dog, my kids.
\\nI was an equal opportunity A-Hole.
\\nBut what I can see in my conscious awareness that I couldn\\u2019t see back then is that while my yelling was quite consistent, the reactions from others were vastly different from one another.
\\nThat\\u2019s because my yelling is not what created your emotional response.
\\nMy yelling is the trigger, sure.
\\nBut how you react - whether you curl up and cry, or yell back at me - is entirely based on your unconscious emotions.
\\nThis means that you have the power to control your emotional response.
\\nI don\\u2019t have that power over you.
\\nWould you like to harness this power?
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