Emotional Maturity
Another Benefit of Meditation

How you think determines your level of emotional maturity.

Change your mind; change your emotions; snap out of depression; and enjoy conscious easy living now.

Here is an exercise to demonstrate how quickly you can move from depression to happiness.

Have you noticed how what you think creates sensations in your body?

Take a moment and think about a problem that has been really bugging you for quite a while.

Keep thinking about it until you bring the issue into this moment.

How does your body feel?

Keep thinking of the problem. Where in your body are the feelings most intense? Are they isolated into one area, or spread throughout your entire body?

Now, take a deep breath and allow your thoughts to lighten up - think about something that recently made you very happy - even ecstatic if you can. Keep thinking about the ecstasy while you notice feelings in your body.

How does your body feel now? Keep thinking - get right into the thought - see yourself in the ecstasy. Where are the feelings most intense?

Hold the thoughts and feel the intensity grow.

Can you see how what you think influences how you feel?

Did you notice how quickly you were able to change your emotions from heavy, intense, sinking feelings to upward spiraling feelings of happiness?

Fearful thinking renders you unconscious

If you frequently feel depressed, for example, you may not realize that it is your thoughts - habitual, self-limiting thought patterns - that take you on a downward spiraling ego trip.

The reason is because ego thought patterns trap you into an unconscious state of mind.

Certain thought patterns - or the drama associated with them - are addictive because they seem to meet one or more of our suppressed emotional needs.

Emotional blackmail

Ask yourself; what is my payoff for repeating this behavior? What do I receive when I do this? What needs get satisfied with this behavior?

Answers like: When I am depressed, I get more attention from friends and/or loved ones; or When I lie to my partner, I will not be deserted and left alone, are evidence of fear based erroneous thinking.

They let you off the hook from facing your fears head on. What truths are you evading? What are you really afraid of?

There may be a variety of unconscious methods you use to manipulate others into fulfilling your needs.

That is called emotional blackmail.

Sooner or later the methods fail to fool others so your ego cleverly devises other tricks to bait the trap.

Switch tracks

Instead, why not switch to a long-lasting and more fulfilling path and learn how to move closer to emotional maturity.

Begin by watching for your destructive and limiting patterns and change your emotions to uplifting thoughts of praise, gratitude, and love.

Emotional maturity is an ongoing journey

Rather than a goal to achieve at some time in the future, it is much more productive to stay present in the moment and be aware of your thoughts and feelings.

Individuals who enjoy emotional well being rarely experience guilt over past mishaps because they continue moving forward with the flow of life.

Emotionally healthy people are aware that they have choices: and they choose for peace and happiness in the moment rather than the pain and suffering of past events.

How to master your emotions?

Emotional maturity is a natural result of regular practice of meditation.

The Ishayas Ascension is particularly helpful because the techniques that are based on thoughts of praise, gratitude, love and compassion help you to develop a habit of positive thinking.

Watching your thoughts is an exercise to empower you to replace the negative self-destructive or equally self-limiting grandiose thoughts with Ascension attitudes (thoughts).

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