Question

On the basis of your reading of the passage, make notes on it, using recognizable

abbreviations where necessary.

 Use a format you consider suitable.

 Supply an appropriate title. Make a summary of the passage.

Remember the format: (8 marks)

 Heading

 Sub-headings (5)

 Numbering of points

 Pick the abbreviations used and write it separately.

 Finally, condense the passage into a meaningful summary of not more than 6 sentences. (3)

1. There are so many things we humans tend to hold back on. We repress a lot

of our emotions, whether they are considered ‘good’ or “had’ ones.

2. Sometimes we hold back on expressing our love for fear of being

misunderstood, or perhaps thinking the timing is not ‘right’. Most commonly,

we have been taught to hold back on our ‘negative’ emotions fear, anger,

sorrow, pain, etc.

3. As a child, I was often told to squelch those emotions that demonstrated

‘weakness’. I held back my tears in order to appear strong. I repressed my

anger to be a ‘good girl’ and ‘loving’.

4. Yet, I now realize that holding back anger or any other emotion affects

negatively the person who is holding back. The anger I refused to let out

stayed locked up inside, fermented, and gave rise to all kinds of poison.

Frustrations and anger were withheld, only to explode when I’d ‘had enough’.

This anger later had to be released through illness, situations where the anger

was unleashed at someone or something else (or at myself), or through

therapy.

5. What happens when you feel anger (consciously or sub-consciously) but want

to hide it? Whatever we hold back becomes a part of us and gets stored in

our body as a tangible manifestation in the form of headaches, tension, pain,

illness, ulcers, cancer, arthritis, back pain, and many other physical ailments.

6. Of course, we feel that by holding back on expressing our anger we are doing

the ‘right’ thing and not hurting anyone. Yet, little do we know, the other

person may need to hear what we have to say, just as much as we need to

express it.
7. Of course, we need to learn how to express our anger or discontent without

‘dumping’ on the other. We can express ourselves without destroying the

other person’s sense of self-worth or attacking them emotionally, verbally, or

physically.

8. Expressing our deepest feelings also applies to expressing feelings of love and

appreciation. How many times have we felt gratefulness towards another

being, sometimes just for their presence in our life, and failed to express it?

That person may really need to hear your words of praise to give them a

boost in their own self-esteem. May be they are unaware of what you so

clearly see in them.

9. I have found that at times when I expressed feelings of gratitude and love to

others, they were surprised at the way I saw them. Never assume that the

other person knows how much you appreciate them. If you think it and feel it,

then say it.

10.Our rational mind has been well trained to dissect and analyse. It likes to hold

back on acting instinctively and instead question scientifically what is the

‘right’ action to take. So, we’ve held our true selves back, and not expressed

that inner inspiration to laugh, cry, scream, give a hug, or say a kind word

when our first feeling guided us to do so.

11.Whatever first thought or feeling comes to you is your intuition, or in other

words, your divine inspiration. Any other thoughts that follow, i.e. “may be I

shouldn’t say that”, etc., are only your mind (ego) doubting and questioning,

afraid of making a ‘mistake’.

12.The best thing to do is to follow your first instinct, your inner guidance, which

comes as the first feeling or thought. That is your ‘God-self.’ The universal

power of Love guides us towards happiness, and that is why our first instinct

is always the one that will bring us true happiness and inner peace.

13.We can choose to let go of the fear of being wrong, or appearing ridiculous,

etc., and act on our feelings. Be true to yourself. Holding back is only

postponing the truth and can harm the other as well as ourselves. Holding

back is postponing the freedom to be who we really are loving, truthful

children who desire to be happy and free from negativity.

14.Let go! Express your truth today! You and your world will be better for it.​

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