[tmbchr]™

Real Life Acting Tip #7: Once More With Feeling



You are not responsible for anyone else’s feelings. Rather, you’re responsible for your own actions and have a duty - first and foremost to yourself - to perfect them. That duty arises simply because self-mastery is the best possible way to live. When you perfect your actions and your words, you end up encouraging (by example) other people to do the same. As you master yourself, your emotional reactions to things do not blindly compel you towards certain actions: towards lashing out, towards reacting negatively or defensively, and so on. It’s not that feelings go away and that you become a cold logical robot. Quite the opposite: your robotic and automatic reactions to things diminish until they disappear and you are in full control of yourself and harmony with others and your environment.







2 Reader Responses

  1. Tim Boucher Says:
    October 9th, 2007 at 1:03 pm

    Also beware of trying to protect people from feeling a certain way. You may be able to tell yourself that you’re being altruistic by withholding the truth or by acting a certain way, but really what you are doing is trying to exert control over other people’s emotions when you have no right to do so.

  2. Could Google’s Cache Be Used To Censor Data? - Pop Occulture Says:
    October 12th, 2007 at 1:21 am

    […] What this shows is an actual screen from my Google-ized site search. And if you look at acting tip “#7″ you see that the subtitle being displayed is “Feelings.” However, if you click on the post page itself (here is the link), you’ll see that the actual title is “Once More With Feeling” - which is a reference to a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode where everyone sings their lines as though it were a musical. Oddly, I changed to the newer pop culture reference-pt enhanced title shortly after I wrote the original piece. No longer than an hour after posting it originally with the shortened title, and probably closer to 15 minutes, because I almost never change a post after that time frame has elapsed, as I have new ideas to focus on constantly. […]



SURROUND YOURSELF WITH STRENGTH.