In the allegory, Plato describes people who have spent their lives chained in a cave facing a blank wall. They watch shadows projected onto the wall by objects passing in front of a fire behind them, and they give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners’ reality but not accurate representations of the real world. The shadows represent the fragment of reality we can perceive through our senses, while the objects under the sun represent the true forms of objects that we can only perceive through reason.
In a similar way when someone expresses one opinion or is angry, upset and blames you for things, you are wrong in their life – if we are prisoner of one’s emotions,, we would see the shadows and not the reality,-to be able to see the reality one has to see their bickering as just shadow and not what’s triggering these emotions. The past hurts abuses faulty upbringing -all that could could act as the triggers,
This heightened consciousness help you not condemn them to lesser beings. And one is able to respond to the accusations as -their perceptions which one could safely stand outside of -“the emotional charge”and not respond in an angry hurtful manner.
It is easy said than done. To be able to pull it off one has to be in a resilient emotional state, which can be achieved when one has a strong parasympathetic nervous system to counterbalance, sympathetic neurosystem – the later engages with fight and flight and is very reactive.
Many activities can reinforce this state of mind, including yoga , tai chi, meditation, mindfulness, music, sports and directly stimulating vagus nerve.
