Sentiment & emotion

There is a difference between sentiment and emotion. Sentiment is distilled emotion. It is instead of emotion. Over time, it becomes a block to experiencing true emotion in the present. It seems to be protection from powerful emotion, from being overwhelmed. It ends up blocking true emotion.

Go on. Be overwhelmed.

Revive an old idea. Whelmed. Today, I am whelmed. I am washed with emotion. It flows over me. I do not resist it. I allow it to wash over me, around me, through me.....

Sentiment is distilled emotion. It can get you drunk. It can make you high, but it clouds the perception of reality. It takes you into delusion. Victim or hero? Fame or vainglory?

From true emotion, right action will follow. Intuitively. without a lot of thought. From a place of true emotion in the present, you will step forward positively into the next right thing.

Shun sentiment. accept without resistance true emotion. Learn to tell the difference.