Emotional domination

In many different types of relationships, whether personal or at the workplace, we sometimes feel we are being negatively dominated and controlled by the other person. A prevalent example of the above negative energy, in both personal and non-personal relationships, is when someone gets angry with you and makes you react and get upset; they dominate you. Over time, they realise they possess an invisible, robust remote control that, whenever they want to control you, they should use anger to achieve it. Their anger becomes a remote control.

When you react, you are allowing the other person's remote control to work. It is you who chooses to allow yourself to be influenced and dominated.

Let us not allow ourselves to be dominated and influenced by external entities, including objects and people, or we will lose our spiritual energy. Each moment we allow another person's remote control to work successfully, or we enable an object to control and dominate our emotional state, we weaken internally. We become like a puppet in the other person's hands. A puppet is never powerful because it does not act on its own but is controlled by someone else. We need to prevent that if we want to conserve our energy and remain spiritually strong.


Meditation and spiritual knowledge both increase our spiritual strength, self-esteem and self-respect. These help us regain self-control, disallow the other's remote control, and become assertive without being aggressive, taking a stand when required.