The Buffet of Your Emotions

Published: Dec. 13, 2019, 11:27 p.m.

Sathi introduces the idea of a buffet. There are so many choices, yet we only take a few items, and successfully ignore the rest. We also decide which items are healthy for us instead of just eating from the dessert table.\n\nWe can follow the same process in our lives as we deal with all the emotions and different situations.\n\n- Observe your emotions. If you are uncomfortable ask yourself why.\n- Ask yourself, "Is this my ego? What do I gain from expressing this right now?"\n- Voice your feelings only if it will be beneficial to the other person.\n- By ignoring the emotion you are not feeding into it. It is much like ignoring certain options at a buffet.\n- Identify the emotion, examine it, and then let it go