Like everything else in life, when practicing when-which-how, we have our good days and our bad days. This is especially true when working with the emotions. Some days we may spend more time in a negative state than a positive one. This is why it is good to develop an attitude of neutrality in which we don’t get too high over our successes or too low over our failures. By taking the middle path between these opposites, we avoid attachment to the outcome, or as noted earlier, looking for results. The attitude of accepting the good with the bad also helps to smooth out the emotional roller coaster we ride each day. At least now we have the tools and methods for learning to manage the ride.
An important point to remember is that we all have a center of emotional gravity. We may get buffeted around by various emotional situations during the course of a day or even a month, but our efforts to stay aligned with the virtues will help us greatly in restoring our emotional center of gravity.
