According to Goswami Kriyananda, “The battle is the battlefield of your emotions for you, the battlefield of my emotions for me, and the battlefield of other people’s emotions for us.” Other people are highly emotional and they ’emote’ us, and we respond emotionally and we ’emote’ them. The end result? Disaster. Gratefulness helps us to center our emotions. The result? “We can get out of our nightmare state and see the world as it really is.” says Kriyananda.