Emotional Maturity

Emotional Maturity

It is the energy which has force and it moves .It is the nature of the soul to come under the influences, to be affected and colored by what it is in contact with. Emotion is the soul’s reaction to stimulation and provocation. Emotional maturity means to understand the subtlety of this process and to position the self to minimize destabilizing influences and the ups and downs of the material world.

Emotional maturity means to understand the power of people , places and things which affect you adversely and to minimize their destabilizing influences . Neutrality on the face of different stimuli and provocation allows you to maintain inner stability and turn to inner dimension more easily .Emotional maturity gives you capacity to  manage feelings . You have inner resilience to manage even big calamities , disasters and shocks .Emotional maturity is an attitude which looks beyond character defects , recognizing that dwelling on  others’ defects causes you to absorb them . Emotional maturity implies dignity , patience and far sightedness .You are internally stable and can observe events with detachment. You have  the determination to do what you wish to do regardless of obstacles or hurdles.

Through meditation one can develop emotional maturity . Through this, one can accumulate inner power to that let you accommodate and reframe a situation that has been bothering you for a long time so that you can let it go . You need to keep up a disciplined rhythm of regular daily meditation in order to destroy or melt the mental bondage .This is considered settling accounts of Karma through yoga . It helps you sustain quality thoughts .

Meditation helps you to introspect and discern carefully whether you are setting yourself up for sorrow by harbouring unrealistic expectations.The presence of expectations obscures your inner emptiness .Spiritual emptiness can not be filled by position power or material .Your desire and expectations cause sorrow not the people who fail to give you what you want .Through meditation you have the opportunity to strengthen yourself , to make yourself flexible ,broadminded and tough .It  allows you to cultivates the power of tolerance by which you are unaffected by various forms of provocation.

Contemplative inner stillness calms your mind and you develop greater self respect .Introspection lets you go deeper more real part of yourself . Once you see that the feeling of insufficiency which arises from spiritual depletion lessen because you develop power from within .Emotional maturity comes when you have taken time to sit with yourself ,cultivate your qualities and strengths and practise them.....