No, You Can’t Control Your Emotions

Learning How to Navigate Life Through Non-Attachment and Emotional Clarity

For a long time, I filled my life with attachments — to food, to drink, to shopping, to love. I would attach myself to anything and everything, hoping to find some shred of who I was in those attachments.

What I’ve learned is that all our attachments enable us to do is more easily ignore our internal guidance system — our emotions.

Feeling down? Go buy a new bag.

Feeling angry? Go have a few drinks with friends.

Feeling alone? Go eat the rest of the cake left over in the fridge.

This led me down a path of self-loathing, confusion, and an inability to accept my role in anything that occurred in my life.

If this resonates with you, please know it doesn’t need to be this way.

Emotions — Our Internal Navigation System

We are not our emotions.

Our emotions say nothing about us as a person at a deep, core level.

From a young age, however, we are taught which emotions are “acceptable” and which are “unacceptable.”