Watch These Emotions || Acharya Prashant

Full Video:  How to be less reactive and more responsive? || Acharya Prashant, at Cummins College, Nagpur (2022)

Transcript

00:00The more reactive and the more emotional you are, the more easily you will be enslaved.

00:05Because emotion is like a button and everybody knows where your buttons are.

00:09Anybody can come and press that button and get the desired output from you.

00:13Suppose I want to make you angry and I know that if I utter a particular word to you, you get angry.

00:18Now it is so easy for me to control you, is it not?

00:21If I want to upset you, I just have to utter that word.

00:24You have become a machine and I know the trigger.

00:28Equally, let's say I want to make you happy, I want to please you.

00:31And that is something very frequently used, especially with women.

00:34I want to please you, I know what pleases you.

00:36I can come and say, oh, you're looking gorgeous.

00:37The button has been pressed and immediately you will be prepared to do me a favor.

00:41It's not so simplistic, but you get the drift, right?

00:44If I know what pleases you, I can enslave you.

00:48If I know what displeases you, I can again enslave you.

00:51And that is the great danger in being emotionally reactive.

00:56You are predictable and if you are predictable, you are controllable.