A Master of Life is able to stop emotional spinouts quite quickly, and this is the difference between the master and the seeker. A spiritual adept is not immune from feeling negative emotions any more than the ordinary person. However, the advanced person recognizes emotions as illusion, knowing that illusions can be experienced by giving focused attention to them. If one removes attention from negative emotions, they disappear, as if drying up from lack of attention. Since physical reality itself is an illusion, the emotions, even though they are also illusions, can affect the illusion itself. It is all about learning how to work within the illusion, and using tools that are given for manipulating the illusion.

Because this is a universe ruled by duality, emotions could be thought of as coming from either one pole or the other, bad/good, dark/light. Gerald G. Jampolsky states this in his book Love Is Letting Go Of Fear (1979), and Karol K. Truman agrees in her book Feelings: Buried Alive Never Die (1991). She says, "My experience has been that all of the feelings and emotions in the world can basically be narrowed down to two. LOVE and FEAR. All positive feelings/emotions are LOVE based. All negative feelings/emotions are FEAR based. In other words we are either coming from LOVE, or we are coming from FEAR."

It is important to recognize and give validity to emotions as they show up, whether they are positive or negative. It is useful to learn what these patterns are so you can recognize them more easily. Recognizing positive emotions is important because it is necessary to fully experience positive emotions. Then the emotional body can truly learn these patterns. Your emotional body will be able to hold these positive emotions more readily if a conscious scan of what it like to fully experience the emotion is had. The emotional body can be trained to gravitate toward these positive experiences by memorizing the vibrational signature of an emotion.

Acknowledging negative emotions when they come up is very important. Otherwise they keep running under the surface and don't become resolved. Unresolved emotions, or emotions that you never learned to deal with, are terrible destroyers in your reality indeed. In her book Feelings: Buried Alive Never Die (1991), Karol K. Truman says, "…When negative feelings are not resolved as they occur, these feelings remain very much alive in your physical energy field (body) and these feelings affect each day of your life. In other words, unresolved "feelings, buried alive, never die!" And these buried feelings are very real. They're energies in and of themselves. They are alive, living, and constantly affecting you. These buried feelings have a personality, and these feelings that have been buried alive will, of necessity, have to manifest themselves sooner or later."

Your memories are stored by association rather than by the timeline. These memories are organized by emotional content. All your memories of being happy will be stored in one pocket of consciousness while all your memories of being frightened will be stored in another pocket of consciousness. When you access one type of emotional memory, they are all available easily because they are in the same "family" of memories. A whole pockets of unresolved emotional events could be quite Dutch for men told to your reality because of the beliefs that they support. Space Jane Roberts says in her book The Nature Of The Psyche: Its Human Expression (1979), "You will see that the events will not necessarily be structured according to usual time, but according to emotional content… your emotions trigger your memories, and they organize your associations. Your emotions are generated through your beliefs. They attach themselves so that certain beliefs and emotions seem almost synonymous. The next time an opportunity arises, and you recognize the presence of a fairly strong emotion in yourself, then let your associations flow. Events and images will spring to mind in an out-of-time context. You will clearly see the connection between the emotion and the event." It is advisable to explore pockets of unresolved emotional content because these are creating your reality even if you are not aware of it.

The first step is to acknowledge negative feelings and let go of any denial around feeling them. It is alright to have negative emotions. It is not a sign of spiritual weakness to have a negative emotion. It simply goes with the territory of being human. Accept this and refrain from avoidance strategies that keep the emotion running underneath your consciousness in a dysfunctional manner.

Do not be afraid of a negative emotion. Most people deny negative emotions or run away from them, trying to avoid feeling them, mostly because they are afraid of feeling them. Some people fear that if they feel the emotion in its full force, they might lose control and do something regretful. It is not dangerous nor will it hurt you to have a negative emotion. You most certainly can control yourself during the negative emotion, and if you fear expressing it, explore it when you are alone and safe from harming others. It is perfectly fine to feel the negative emotion fully and completely.

Sometimes it is quite appropriate to feel a negative emotion. Perhaps a boundary has been crossed, or someone is behaving quite badly around you. It is important for you to assert yourself and enforce your boundaries, and state your personal preferences. However, you do not have to do this from the viewpoint of a negative emotion. You can do this in a rational and practical manner. If you're acting out from a negative emotion, you are most likely not acting in a rational or practical manner.

Avoid telling the story around the negative emotion. This is not necessary. If there is a message for the mental body, it will simply pop into your mind as an "aha!" moment. Not all messages from the emotional body are interpreted with words. The first thing to do when feeling a negative emotion is inspect it. Find out what this signature pattern of the negative emotion really is. Taste it, smell it, feel it, see it as energy, hear it. Find out everything you can about this emotion. Use all your senses. The emotion has appeared for a reason. It has a message for you about what is going on in your inner landscape. Negative emotions are like messages from the unconscious, or subconscious, aspects of yourself. It is important that you listen to these messages, or else the emotions keep popping up until you do acknowledge them.