3 Major Emotions That Keep You Trapped

Whenever you feel justified in a feeling that doesn’t feel good, you are trapped by that feeling in your experience. As long as you view certain emotions as bad, you will suffer. It isn’t that the emotion is bad; it’s that you’ve condemned your choice in how you felt your experience that makes you feel bad.

Some of the emotions that limit you the most are stubbornness, righteousness, and defensiveness. These three emotions keep you locked up and unable to view yourself in your experience. Without the ability to view yourself in your experience, you are stranded and at the mercy of repeated unpleasant experiences that cause you to suffer. You are not able to see yourself clearly and therefore create unknowingly.

When stubbornness, righteousness, and defensiveness are recognized, the ability to accurately observe what we are creating becomes clear. In all three of these emotions, you are self-oriented and only able to see things from your perspective. That perspective is one of blame, comparison, and opposition. As you hold this resonance, your life reveals unpleasant reactions from those you are interacting with.

Ask yourself, “Why am I stubborn?” “Why am I righteous?” “Why am I defensive?” The answers will come.

• I am stubborn because I do not love myself and must pretend I do to feel worthy.
• I am righteous because I do not love myself, so I compare myself to prove I am worthy.
• I am defensive because I do not love myself and must defend myself to feel worthy.

Imagine a triangle, and at each corner of the triangle, these three emotions reside. Put yourself in the middle of this triangle and imagine trying to find a way out. Every direction you go, you find yourself trapped and unable to be free. Real freedom is outside of the triangle. The triangle still exists, but you are no longer within it; you are outside observing it. This is how you are to view yourself in your experience. All these feelings exist, but they only become real when you attach to them and enter the triangle.

-Athena