How to Handle Emotional Attachments?

“When compulsive thoughts and emotions come, the first and foremost thing that you do is, you simply see them for what they are–you don’t try to resist them. The moment you resist, they will multiply.”

—Sadhguru

There is a lot of talk about the head and the heart business. There is no such distinction in the real sense because the way you think is the way you feel. The way you feel is the way you think.

For different people, different things run first. Today, largely because of the type of education, for most people, their thoughts run ahead of their emotions. But there is still a sizeable percentage of people for whom their emotions run ahead of their thought. Nowadays, those people whose emotions run ahead of their thought are made to feel stupid because they do not understand the power and the intelligence of emotion, though people are starting to talk about emotional quotient.

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