According to David D Burns, author of Feeling Good: the new mood therapy, emotional reasoning is a cognitive distortion. If a person assumes his negative emotions necessarily reflect the way things are: "I feel it, therefore it must be true."
When I use my negative emotions (anger, fear, and even desire) in dealing with another person, I usually tend to put my ass between myself and that person.
When I use my positive emotions (loving-kindness, serenity, selflessness/altruism), the world presents me with rewards money cannot buy.
My life feels complete; I feel relaxed, and unconcerned when nothing goes my way.
When turmoil rears its ugly head, I pause to reflect on the Buddhadharma:
Life is full of suffering.
Ignorant craving is the root of suffering.
Appeasing the ego relieves us of ignorant craving.
Practising the Eightfold Path helps to appease the ego.
For me, this is my Higher Power in action, appeasing my ego by eight useful solutions to spiritual suffering.
Thus I place my faith in the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha.
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