The Happy Mess Project

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Emotional clarity and awareness are very different things

"And if you don’t have a defined emotional system, then you're not making decisions as an emotional being. Because, that’s the trap for unemotional people, that they end up making emotional decisions which is devastating to them physically and psychologically.

St Augustine – not that I'm a fan of ‘Augie’, but every once in a while people say things that are intelligent – said “The only reward for patience is patience”. And if you're an emotional person that’s your mantra. Because the only thing that’s ever going to work for you is patience.

Everything about the emotional system is obvious in Design. You see a defined emotional centre, you know that this is the authority in the Design. And it’s an authority that qualifies the way in which your strategy works. Because you are emotional. Clarity is not the same as awareness.

Look, if you're an emotional person and you meet somebody that you're attracted to, and you go through some kind of courtship that takes place over time because you're emotional, you go up and down in your wave with this being. If you get to a place where over time your clarity says to you “I think that this relationship will work”, it doesn’t mean you really know that’s true. If you get to that place where you say “Basically, emotionally, I think I love this person”, well it isn't necessarily true. It’s a clarity, after all.It’s not an awareness.

Emotional people can never be certain about anything. They can be very clear about things if they wait. But that’s not an absolute. And, you see, because it’s not an absolute this is what this codon does. It gives you the sense that it’s chaos. And it’s not. If you're an emotional person, let go of being certain. Enjoy clarity. And enjoy the fact that you're not completely clear. Because you can't be anyway. And enjoy the fact that of not being completely clear that there can still be surprises for you and the fates are happy to deliver them. So that you can learn something new."

- Ra Uru Hu