Imagine a bottle on a table. You start pouring water into it. You pour a little at a time. The bottle slowly starts to fill up. If you continue pouring, when the bottle is full, what will happen? Easy. It will start to overflow. This is a simple, yet very suitable example of how your emotional world works. Day after day you add emotions, one at the time, into your emotional 'bottle'. If the emotions are good, by their own nature they dissolve in the form of a good mood, a feeling of pleasure. But, if the emotions are negative, they do not dissolve spontaneously. They pile up, one on top of the other. One day, you realize that they have formed many layers that fill up your inner being. Without gradually releasing them, one day they will 'overflow' in the form of a disease, depression, a huge outburst, a devastating crisis. "Release" is the word. Never allow the 'bottle' to fill so much that it overflows!
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