Even so I'm still having a bit of trouble not moving in to "fix" my emotion by mentally pointing out that the emotion is the result of an untrue belief about what happened in the past."
LETTING EMOTIONS BE - NO NEED TO "FIX" THEM
I’m not sure I understand how the Law of Attraction has anything to do with your statement here. I’m probably misunderstanding what you’re saying. Regardless, though, I can share my experience with your struggle.
For a little while, I believed that I just needed to correct an untrue belief from the past to “fix” my emotions. What I discovered is that I was punishing myself by constantly seeking to “fix” myself. (You probably know this stuff already, but for people reading, I’ll explain it.) In the PP, we’re invited to accept that there’s nothing wrong with us or our emotions. That they are exactly the emotions required for us at any given time, but some of them are just stuck in a holding pattern. Emotions are “energy in motion.” When that energy gets stuck in a holding pattern, it becomes dysfunctional, causing us issues.
Emotions are “energy in motion.” E-motion. Science has proven that thoughts and emotions are all energy. So, there’s literally a wave that goes out from us when we think a thought or feel an emotion. Energy, by design, flows. When it gets stuck, it’s not functioning as it was meant to function. So, when we’re in the womb and after we’re born, we’re being affected by our parents’ emotional energy at the subatomic level. Their behavior reinforces this energy, which fully seats those stuck emotions in us. We may not do exactly the same things they do to cope with their stuck emotions, but we usually have the same stuck emotions. That's how we download our life lesson, basically. The rest of our life is for us to emotionally mature by "unsticking" those emotions. The PP invites us to get rid of the story we tell ourselves about how those stuck emotions came to be, and just feel them instead. We don’t even name the emotions—we just let the emotions be, unconditionally, without trying to “fix” them or stuff them.
We see the stuck emotions as a seven-year-old child, or younger, and we embrace him or her lovingly, fully accepting the emotions. If a story pops up or if we try to correct the supposed “lie” we believed when we were younger, we gently bring our attention back to the emotion itself and feel it without condition. We absolutely must do this consistently—daily. Consistency is the key. The more we do it, the quicker that part of us matures, then integrates into the whole.
Once integrated, that energy is no longer stuck. The emotion is flowing at that point. When an emotion flows, it’s no longer dysfunctional. In fact, that emotional energy is now put into a massive pool of energy that is used to generate our emotions for whatever task we must do in each moment. Emotions are fuel. So, we might have called an emotion “anger” and labeled it dysfunctional when we were a child, but actually, that energy (fuel) was just stuck. And we actually require that energy for our development and for the task at hand. So, when the energy comes up, we let it be, unconditionally, and don’t label it. We can just see it as energy for whatever task we need to do. At first, this is difficult. As integration occurs, it gets easier, and even fun. Energizing, in fact!
I was so relieved when the Presence Process gave me permission not to have to figure out my emotions or fix them. A huge weight was lifted when I knew that I could just let my emotions be, because there was nothing wrong with me. All that had happened was that my emotions were not given unconditional love when I was growing up, and I was not shown how to unconditionally love myself and my emotions, so they didn’t mature. Plain and simple. I was freed from “figuring things out” and “doing” something to “fix” myself. I got to embrace the emotion and love it unconditionally! Sometimes, that sucks, but there’s so much joy and peace underneath. Makes it exciting to get to deal with all of it. The difficult emotions start feeling fun to be with. That’s what gave me the excitement of being with emotions when it was tough. I knew I was finally learning to love myself. That’s what I set out to do in the Presence Process. I’m very happy about that.
Never mind, each to his own makes the world more interesting. I have seen it and really enjoyed it. 