Emotional Inheritance
To illustrate the difference between emotions that you own and the ones that you inherited, below are two contrasting examples. Sense of injustice Most of it came from one childhood incident where I was wrongly accused by both parents, followed by strong reproach. I knelt on the floor in front of my parents and grabbed my mother's legs to plea for her trust. I wailed and cried. My mother was wrong, but I was to blame. My attempt to defend resulted in another accusation: dishonesty. The message was, "If I say you are wrong, then you are wrong. If you want to live in my house, you submit to me." Authority. Injustice. Disempowerment. By hook or by crook, I have come to shed most of the emotions related to injustice recently, but I am not completely done yet. The challenge is that if it is an emotion that we own, we have to go into it completely, in order to uproot it. That is a disastrous event, but that's how we he...