Can reading self help books make you lose awareness?

[Blackjack38]

Recently I planned on reading 2 books on emotions and 1 book on meditation. I have some knowledge and experience, like everyone else, about emotions in life and I feel like books on emotions will make it more difficult for me to manage my emotions or alter my daily life emotional experience towards a too ordered one, instead of just feeling fluently.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

In my experience - you cannot control emotions and feelings. They occur. You can only alter your relationship with them. 

IE do you have an irresistible impulse to act on them? Or can you sit with them. Feel them in totality - and let them pass (process them)

A book can assist. But no amount of cerebral analysing, explanation or thinking will be able to control the feeling itself. We can only change how we relate to the feeling.

Which books were you looking at reading? Some are better than others at teaching techniques.

Edited 6 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[Blackjack38]

I am looking at emotional intelligence 2.0 and search inside yourself

What would you recommend?

Edited 5 hours ago by Blackjack38
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[Blackjack38]

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[Rishabh R]

@Blackjack38 Read Subtle Art of not giving a F---. Preferably chapter 1 . The gold of emotional regulation.

[bazera]

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16098910-letting-go

I think this can help you a lot, read it.

Also, why do you think a book can make you lose awareness? What do you mean by that?

It's just a new information, it's up to you how you use it.