Ninety percent of the decisions we make are based on emotion

90% of the statistics are made up on the spot.

If 90% decisions of decisions we make are based on emotions, then why is that something we don't simply acknowledge and then work on improving emotional intelligence?

If that's the tool we have to work with, then why do we keep trying to turn the tool into something we think it should be and in doing so inherently denying the perfection of creativity and the Creator?

Just askin'

Hail to the bringer of great bullshit! Highly entertaining!

Indeed. The ego is strong. Unbridled ego is 100% emotional, not rational. Pause, reflect, then responding helps me control the emotional response. It doesn't hurt the ego either, which is another emotional response. I don't want to kill the ego, just persuade it that there are other alternatives.

Peace,
Nrg


Your Emotional Investment
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As we progress on our spiritual path we can choose the level of ease or difficulty of each step we take. When we take the difficult path we struggle and suffer through each experience. With the easy path we are able to remember our divinity and choose how we will participate in the various lessons we are presented with. One of the ways we make this choice is through our level of emotional investment in a situation. Whether we are aware of it or not, it has the power to affect what we experience, how much pain we will accept, how long we are willing to stay in the experience and the outcome that we can anticipate.

Every situation that we participate in has a level of emotional investment. Whether we want someone to love us, to be successful in our career, get along with our friends or be accepted by our family we are looking for a certain emotional outcome from the situation and we will work hard to ensure that we achieve our payoff, which can be love, appreciation, value, acceptance, to be heard, to be acknowledged- the list is very long. When our level of emotional investment is high, we create a situation where we are so attached to the outcome that we will do anything to ensure that we are successful in meeting our goal. And we resist anything that does not give us that outcome.

With a high level of emotional investment our path can be extremely difficult because we find ourselves struggling to 'make things happen'. And we are doing that because we are so attached to the outcome that we don't see any other possibilities, we are not able to step back, let go and allow events to unfold in the way that is divinely perfect. We want to 'win' at all costs, no matter what the cost is. Until we realize that it is our emotional investment that keeps us in the situation, we will keep on fighting for the outcome that will make us feel better about ourselves, the situation, our life, our power and our value.

Taking the path of least resistance challenges us to monitor our level of emotional investment in every situation. If we do not know what that is, our lessons will show us. The more we resist a situation, the greater our level of emotional investment. It is hard to let go when we want a particular outcome but our inability to let go is a reflection of our fear. When we let go of a desired outcome we allow the Universe to bring us something more wonderful than we can imagine, decrease or remove the influence of our emotional investment and set our course for the easier path of least resistance.

Article Copyright ©2008 by Jennifer Hoffman. All rights reserved.

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