The emotion you’re experiencing, the block you’re feeling, the reactions and responses that emerge from your subconscious; it all works for you, for some reason. 

In some cases, it helps you get what you need or want. In other cases, it helps protect you from others or from yourself. 

It takes great discernment to know when it stops working for you, when you start working for it. Sometimes this is an experience of fear, pain, and shame. Something isn’t right.

Then it takes courage, willpower, and focus to understand it, learn it, and how to control and harness it.

Then, it takes philosophy, discernment, and mindfulness, to work together with it. A perfect balance of hot emotion and cold consciousness, planning and spontaneity, adherence and flexibility.