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第八章 ?接纳当下
? 利用和放弃负面情绪
除了放下负面的情绪反应,能让负面情绪消失的另一个选项是,想象你对那个引起反应的外在因素变得透明。
我建议你从小事、甚至是微不足道的事开始练习。比如说,你在家里静静地坐着。突然,尖锐的汽车报警声从街对面传来。烦躁升起了。烦躁有什么意义?毫无意义。你为什么创造它?你没有。是头脑创造了它。这是完全自动的,完全无意识的。
为什么头脑要创造它?因为它有个无意识的信念:它的抗拒,也就是你以某种形式体验为负面情绪或者不快乐的,会消除这个你不想要的情境。当然,这是一个幻想。头脑创造的抗拒,在这个例子中出现的烦躁或愤怒,比它想要消除的最初的肇因,可要吵闹得多。
? USING AND RELINQUISHING NEGATIVITY
AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO DROPPING A NEGATIVE REACTION, you can make it disappear by imagining yourself becoming transparent to the external cause of the reaction.
I recommend that you practice this with little, even trivial, things first. Let's say that you are sitting quietly at home. Suddenly, there is the penetrating sound of a car alarm from across the street. Irritation arises. What is the purpose of the irritation? None whatsoever. Why did you create it? You didn't. The mind did. It was totally automatic, totally unconscious.
Why did the mind create it? Because it holds the unconscious belief that its resistance, which you experience as negativity or unhappiness in some form, will somehow dissolve the undesirable condition. This, of course, is a delusion. The resistance that it creates, the irritation or anger in this case, is far more disturbing than the original cause that it is attempting to dissolve.