Master the Emotional Self

"You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery;the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others."

Leonardo da Vinci

One of my goal in this 10 years will be understanding and mastering one of the most important human nature, emotion.

I start to analyze the characteristics of each emotion, and how to deal with them if we cannot deal with them, accept it and how to use it constructively.

 Rules

Emotion is something which is really deep inside us. We feel it rather than we think about it. We use limbic system of the brain to deal with it.

1.Therefore, try not to put emotion into words, but feel it.
However, I need somehow to make them in words, so that it is understandable, which will be a very difficult task.

2.Calm the mind. 
When the mind is full of thoughts and worries like waving sea, it is very difficult to detect what is actually happening inside. Therefore, I try to calm the mind by developing the skill of mindful meditation, and be in the present moment.

3.Imagination can also cause emotional reaction
One of the characteristics of emotion is that only imagining a curtain situation can cause us emotional reaction. 

Therefore, we have to distinguish 2 types of emotion, emotion came from reality or emotion came from imagination.

The latter can be dealt by stopping thinking about it by controlling our ruling principles of desire and aversion.

4. Test the theory first!
Anything we read, listen or study can be tested in the reality, How my body responds to each situation or occurrence, and use what is useful and eliminate what is not. The ultimate goal is to accordance with the Realty, Nature,Dao or God, whatever we would like to call.