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Two people facing the same desperate or maddening situation can react in two totally different ways. One may react with anger while the other reacts with resignation. Still others may react with renewed enthusiasm at the challenge posed by the situation. Everyone has his or her unique way of dealing with emotion.

People generally deal with emotion in two different ways, either with expression or repression. Although the direction of repression is inward and the direction of expression is outward, they are identical in that they can both be harmful.

A negative emotion does not disappear just because you repress it. Ilchi Lee explains in his book that it merely becomes buried in your brain as an emotional memory, always looking for a way out of its hole, and with every chance it gets, it disturbs the peace you seek. Buried negative emotion may suddenly be expressed in violent outbursts toward others or through a physical illness. Afterward, we feel a sense of guilt, which adds to this cycle of negativity.

Outward expression of emotion is healthier than repression; however, even outward expression can have its problems, because an outward burst of emotion leaves an equally powerful and lasting trace on the inner psyche. Just as a rocket shooting up into space will leave blackened scars on the ground, an outward emotional outburst will leave its own inner traces.

Then what? How much easier would our lives be it we could exchange information without the emotional baggage that comes with the information? This is possible through “release.” a method of emotional control that is neither expression nor repression. Through “release” it is possible to take the emotion out of the exchange of information, if you so choose. And the main tool used to “release” emotion is the smile. We can use the simple act of smiling to give us conscious power over emotions.

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