EMOTIONS: Freedom from Anger, Jealousy & Fear

This book is excellent. You are not simply TOLD what to do about dealing with negative emotions, you are shown HOW and WHY! This is NOT just another self help book. This is a book I wish I had read ages ago. We are indeed all taught to suppress rather than channel our negative emotions. This book will show you how to get RID of them by acknowledging them and working through positive solutions.. rather than say grab a drug and addict yourself to trying to escape them (and you never will this way)..

This was an amazing book to help me work practically too and understand a lot of the workings of my/our emotions. Gave me insight into a human being on that level and made me calm and confident in transforming emotions. I can highly recommend it.

I'm not a Buddhist, but a Christian. I started reading, just to see what it was about and read the whole thing. The beginning is a very relaxing read and had some highlightable/clipable quotes. I do have different religious beliefs, this book offered some areas for further prayer and contemplation but I did not find these areas offensive so much as a beneficial exposure to a different perspective. Overall, I'm glad that I had a chance to read this book and learn a little about who OSHA is. Thanks to Amazon.com for having this book in Kindle format so I could start reading it in 60 seconds.

Osho books are kind of life savers for me. They uplift me, give me hope, strength and understanding for others. When I feel angry and frustrated I read his advices and keep being reminded that those are only the materialistic things and ppl who I should care about. It gives me more emotional freedom.

I purchased Emotions: Freedom from Anger, Jealousy, and Fear by Osho to see what I could learn in preparation for a Meetup session I was leading on jealousy. It’s a small pocketbook of only 150 pages, and the font is very liberally spaced on those pages making the book seem even shorter than it actually is. I think the book was required to have at least ten comma splices on each page; it’s enough to make a former English teacher like me insane. The book itself is filled with nuggets of wisdom that I found interesting to contemplate. Osho uses a combination of prose and poetry to share his ideas. Both have powerful results in some parts of the book. I really enjoyed the section on jealousy. The section on fear was shorter and weaker than the other two sections; it felt only partially developed. One of the final chapters of the book on transformation was nothing more than a redux. Furthermore, I found Osho’s perspective to be seriously lacking in an understanding of the mind-body-spirit connection. While that’s not unusual for a Western medical doctor, for a mystic, it feels like a sign of denial or ignorance. His active meditation ideas in the back were different, but none were compelling enough to make me want to try them. A great number of them involve physical motion which is difficult at this time for me, but it may be perfect for others who have difficulty with sitting still and meditating. Most frustrating for me was the section on anger. Osho’s view of anger is very simplistic. He believes anger requires two people, yet that fails to explain why we can have anger at ourselves. Equally errant is his belief that one can release anger in only a few minutes by changing one’s thought patterns. Either Osho is not a naturally angry person or anger does not work the same in men as it does in woman. I can go to bed, dream all night about different topics, and then wake up the next morning furious again about something that happened a day or two before. I found most of Osho’s suggestions for releasing anger (such as punching a pillow or running one’s self to a point of exhaustion) to be simplistic and pointless: They aren’t going to actually relieve the cause of the anger and often for me this type of tactic doesn’t even remove the energy of the anger either. Physical exertion just makes me tired and sore on top of being angry. Despite all of those complaints, I do think there was a great deal of wisdom in the book. Osho is great for “sound bites.” I found many quotes that made me stop and think for a few minutes as I encountered them. I saved many of those bits of inspiration for future mantras for my blog. I’ll also be using some of his poetry about jealousy to open my Meetup session on the topic because it is incredibly beautiful. © 2015 Elizabeth Galen, Ph.D., Green Heart Guidance, LLC

Osho perspective on emotions is really interesting. This the first time I ever read a book on how to free yourself from emotions. I think Osho has some good points in this book, like when he says, if you should let your anger out instead of repressing it. Osho all so says, fear is intelligent because is stop you from putting your hand in the fire, but you should not let fear control your life. For example just because the number one death of humans is car accidents, you should not let that stop you from driving a car. Osho also explain the difference between being a coward and being courageous. I think anybody who let emotions control them, I recommend this book to sleep them.

The book was purchased because of the content - Freedom from Anger, Jealousy and Fear. It was easy to read and helped to understand the relationship between the three. I agreed with many of the concepts and their correlation. The "Pillow Meditation" was unique, made me laugh and wonder if this is why children love pillow fights. Great way to release negative energy and hurt no one. Recommend this book.

I must be fair, before I write something about the book. When I was coming to Oregon, (this was a coincident) , then Osho was just starting to speak after 6 years of silence. Everything what he was speaking was total fitting to my present situation.... The community was for me the paradise, I was attending some groups .... Became eventually a devote.... The book emotions, is a collection from parts of many discourses he had given over 20 years. Somehow it does not feel so good, because it is not one whole piece, it is out of many pieces.... But still the contents is really great, easy to understand, so that we will accept and understand our feelings. Today I would add, with the new technics of EFT (google it) we can transform our feelings much faster than it had been possible with technics from OSHO (EFT became public after Osho passed by).

Love the book

Osho neste livro nos esclarece como transmutar sentimentos inferiores em algo mais virtuoso. Aparentemente de forma simples, mas efetivo. Vale muito a leitura!!

This book contains excerpts from Osho's other literature and compiles them all into a small, compact version. I find it very empowering to read one or two a day.

Ich kann das Buch nur weiterempfehlen. Es regt sehr zum Nachdenken an und ich lese es immer wieder gerne. Ich werde mir definitiv noch andere Bücher von Osho zulegen.

Simple language. Packed with thoughts.