Have you been consciously accepting and watching your suffering, letting them transmute into peace? If so, then you are ready for the final step. What is this final key, grasshopper? Love. When you love your suffering, when you embrace them, you can finally let them go.

One of the biggest troubles we can ever face in becoming free of unhappiness is our ego. Often, the ego has become attached to our suffering, we cling to it and don’t want to let go. How do we identify these traps and overcome them?

I remember my first day on the job. I was teaching website design at a local college, and I was so nervous I nearly fell over. My skin was cold and clammy. I stuttered as I spoke. Memories of how, as a pre-pubescent boy, I was too shy to even order at Macdonald’s kept flashing into my head. And yet somehow I stumbled through to the end of the class when the students, recognising my ordeal, encouragingly gave me a warm round of applause.

A few weeks later, I was teaching a different batch. This time, I was lounging around in the chair, totally relaxed. I was having fun teaching, and they were having fun learning. I had conquered another one of my demons. Like to know how I overcame my anxiety?

Let’s get cracking!

“When hot be thoroughly hot, when cold be thoroughly cold.”

Right there in its simplicity is a beautiful, profound, little secret. It is the key to true emotional mastery. Can you guess what it is?

Positive thinking. Forgiveness. Unconditional love. Do you practice it? Do you swear by it? While useful, in our quest for emotional mastery, they actually hurt us. Find out more.

The key to emotional mastery? Part 3 of a series that covers in detail the mastery of your emotions – how to face insecurity, sadness, fear, doubt, anger, and all the other emotions. It will also cover how to purge the built up energies, and the most common forms of repression and denial. Imagine mastering your negative emotions, ranging from insecurity and doubt to rage, ever again!