Three phases of the emotional self-mastery process
"Be a place on earth where nothing grows, but where something can be bred - the seed of God." Rumi - Sufi mystic Emotional self-mastery, as described by James Mahu in concepts such as " Living from the Heart ", is a process. It is not one event, one act, it is a process that must continue on and on in the life of the individual. In the article mentioned above, James states that this process has three phases: 1. Observation 2. Treatment 3. Transformation So let's explore these three phases so that we can see what they bring to our daily practice of emotional self-mastery and how they differ from each other. We begin our exploration with a quote from James, who describes the process in Living from the Heart as follows: "For those who establish emotional self-mastery as their path, they will need to track, treat and transform their behaviors as they progress on this journey because this is not about instant gratification. This journey is truly focu