When we look at our world we can readily see that when people’s emotions go up, intelligence and clarity goes down. They are inversely proportional. It’s true for all of us. When we get fired-up with feelings such as fear, anger, despair, our clarity becomes less (and the ego identity gets stronger).
Beliefs that feed the emotionality and story are like putting blinders on a horse — blinding us to certain things, and to a deeper truth. Every individual has experienced hurt and many people carry past wounds. And these un-healed psychic wounds contribute to the blinders of belief.Consciousness itself is not wounded and has never been wounded, is already and always free and whole. This is why it is so important to make this distinction between mind and consciousness, and to see that the essence of our being is conscious Life.
Some may think; “oh I had a negative thought or emotion. That means I lost it”. No. It means you’re human. In this human drama, it’s not realistic to think we can live in a condition of calm and equanimity all the time. But when we recognize and accept that our real nature is infinite conscious life, the blinders come off — again and we recognize our true home — again, ever deeper, until our last breath.