6th Tues with Morrie - 14/10/08 ~ We Talk About Emotions

"Learn to Detach". Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent.

But wait, aren't you always talking about experiencing life? All the good emotions, all the bad ones?

How can you do that if you're detached?

"Ah. You're thinking, Mitch. But detachment doesn't mean you dont let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it. "

Grief for loved ones, if you hold back on the emotions-if you dont allow yourself to go all the way through them-you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid, you're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief, you're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.

But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is, You know what love is. You know what grief is. Only then can you say, I have experienced that emotion, I recognise that emotion. Now I can detach myself from it.

~ Did you lose your loved ones ? I have experienced the loss of my beloved mum and clinging on to the love and memories pains me more than learning how to experience , embracing it totally and detaching from it. Morrie hit it right !

~Did you lose your loved ones? Are you still in pain? Learn how to embrace Pain and Detach from it ~

~ Excepts from Tuesday with Morrie ~