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Taking Responsibility for One’s Own Feelings and Emotions [FLAU BULLETIN 36]
FIGU - LANDESGRUPPE
AUSTRALIA, FLAU
BULLETIN
Taking Responsibility for One’s Own Feelings and Emotions
More than 25 years ago, before I discovered the Creation-energy teaching, I had a friend who frequently got angry with
me for various things. I often felt I was walking on egg shells around her, never knowing when she would get upset and
‘blow her top’. However, one day, I realised that her anger really is hers and that I cannot control it. The next time she got
angry about something, I calmly said, “I’m sorry, I made you angry, but I’m only the trigger. Your anger really is yours and I
am not going to make it my problem, because you are responsible for it”. That moment was a breakthrough, because she
understood, and our relationship improved.
Recently when someone expressed disappointment in me, I replied, “I’m sorry to hear that you are disappointed, but
according to my understanding, that is your problem, not mine.” However, that person was upset by my response and I
quickly realised that may have come across rather rude and uncaring. A former boss used to tell me, “Don’t be so
Germanic”, when being straightforward with expressing my thoughts. Growing up in Germany, honesty and directness
were valued higher than diplomacy, which didn’t naturally come to me, and also can be seen as a form of lying
sometimes. As Ptaah explains in contact report No. 36:
134. Diplomacy is to be equated with lies and deception, because in this linguistic form the effective facts are
skated around, changed and falsified and those hard words which absolutely unambiguously and unquestionably
name the facts in their full sense are never used.
134. Diplomatie ist gleichzusetzen mit Lug und Trug, denn in dieser Sprachform werden die effectiven Tatsachen