Attendance process - Dar Al-Khayal

Why do we find it very difficult to respond consciously when we are upset? Why do we instead resort to harmful, repetitive, unconscious, reactive behaviors? The reason is that we all have suppressed emotional fingerprints deep inside us that have been programmed within us through experience and imitation of others. These fingerprints automatically unfold over our first seven years of childhood. Until these emotional charges are recognized and consciously ended, we automatically resort, whenever we are upset, like a programmed organic machine, to these reactive behaviors. The process of presence invites us to aspire to "conscious emotional response" as a way of life. Reading and applying the simple procedures in this book make it possible for anyone, anywhere, to transform the quality of their life experience from an uncontrollable reactive experience to an intentional responsibility. We all long to be liberated from our emotional outbursts and instead experience a calm internal response in face of difficulties. What the process of presence reveals through direct experience is that any attempt on our part "to get rid of" our emotional upset is misleading. In fact, it shows us the miraculous transformation that unfolds when we instead adopt conscious emotional responsibility. The process of presence is a guided, self-directed journey toward taking full responsibility for our emotional state. It is a step-by-step path for the sad child within us to emotionally mature.