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about it in your thoughts, but you are not feeling the emotion of sadness in your body, your body stays resistance-free. This is what I mean by the state of unwavering peace. Thought thought is an idea, perception, interpretation or an imagination. Life-energy is capable of thinking, just like life-energy is capable of being sensitive its an intelligent energy. So thinking and being sensitive are two inherent natures/potentials of life-energy. Thought, when it happens, creates a form this form is initially just a very lose non-physical form. However, focusing on a thought causes its condensation, it starts becoming solid. When a thought gathers momentum, it has a sense of solidity to it, where it can be felt more intensely. So in a human being (a form of life-energy), when a thought has a momentum/intensity, it can be felt through the emotional sense. In order to have an intense thought one needs to create momentum on that thought through focus a lot of thoughts in a human being have a strong momentum because of their past/present focus on it. These high momentum thoughts can now create emotions which can get stored-up when they are not allowed a release (you can think of it as thought energy getting stored up in the body). This store-up of emotions creates more and more blockages (sense of congestion) in the body until it hits a high threshold where it becomes very painful for the body to tolerate emotions now these high momentum thoughts are felt even more painfully because the body is already high on stored-up emotions.
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to a limiting thought, and thus, you can totally go ahead with what you want to do rather than be afraid of the sensations of an emotion like fear, sadness, guilt, nervousness, anger etc.
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Iz says: July 21, 2012 at 3:55 am Hey Sen, Im still a little confused with this post. I get the idea of negative thoughts and how when they come we look at them in an understanding/disinterested way and by doing so, slowly over time they will impact our body less because less emotion will be generated by the thought (please tell me if thats right). However, youre view on feeling good still puzzles me. You say its a lack of emotion effecting our bodies that makes us feel good but what about thoughts that make us laugh, is that not an emotion that we feel in our body? Same with sexual thoughts, pretty sure that impacts me physically in the you know what area haha, or are both of those more like releasing energy? I also have a second question, sometimes I daydream about situations where I can land a girl by being funny. Some daydreams of course are unrelated to chicks but still make me laugh. Its not that im afraid (fearful) of these daydreams but are they healthy, does it mean i still have a long way to go to reduce mind momentum? Reply Sen says: July 21, 2012 at 4:32 am Iz, when you are mostly in a state of resistance (a constantly stressed/fearful mind and strong emotional store-up) the thoughts that make you laugh, or thoughts of joy, basically just cause your mind to be distracted from its negative thoughts and hence in that moment you are free of resistance (free of emotions) and hence you feel good so its the freedom from emotion in that moment that makes your body feel good, and we call it a happy state. But when you come to a state of inner wholeness, you are free of resistance/emotions already and hence you realize that it doesnt make any difference to your inner experience state if you have thoughts of joy or not also, the act of laughing by itself is just a physiological expression and it does not imply that someone is actually feeling good, because a lot of humans laugh even when they feel grief or nervousness just to act normal. As for the sexual thoughts, it affects you biologically by sending blood to your genitalia and creating an adrenaline rush, which just increases your tactile sense especially in your erogenous areas this tactile pleasure is what makes you enjoy a sexual act. The relief of the release will not matter so much if you did not have a strong tension created by the emotion of sexuality. The emotion of sexuality (the physical tension created by your sexual thoughts
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or mental need) is not really needed for you to enjoy sex, rather it can cause you to become impatient towards releasing this emotion (as a means of seeking relief from the emotional tension) and thus cause you to not really savor the act long enough or cause you to do something irresponsible (blinded by the emotional tension). I guess, you need to experience what it feels like to be free of the emotion of sexuality to realize the freedom it affords to really focus on enjoying the tactile (and visual, olfactory, auditory and gustatory) pleasure of the sexual act itself. Also, what you call the feeling of love is basically just the absence of the emotion of fear or hatred, by itself the feeling of love is just the natural state of being resistance-free its not an emotion however when we have a lot of resistance within us, the thoughts of loving someone (or being loved by someone) are basically thoughts of well-being that take your minds attention away from its negative thinking (and hence removes emotions) and makes you feel good. In the absence of emotions, you always feel good and hence feeling good becomes ordinary, its just realized as a natural state of being a state of wholeness. As for your question on daydreams, well daydreaming that makes you laugh is always good, the point is whats your state of being when you dont have these thoughts to fall back upon? Your mind momentum only makes it intensity felt when its creating emotion generating thoughts, and its momentum can be sensed by the intensity of emotions it creates in your body. Kevin W. says: July 21, 2012 at 4:31 am This really sparked a big realization for me. Thank you Reply j says: July 21, 2012 at 6:15 am I wouldnt have understood this post a minth ago. But w the practice of releasing stored up emotions through. Allowing myself to feel what i feel, Im able to observe some of the negative thoughts without much impac. Which wouldve beenimpossible d/t so much stored up negativity. im still struggling w inferiority complex but hope Ill be able to overcome being strongly identifying self from mind/ego. thanks Reply Willy says: July 21, 2012 at 11:06 am Sen, i believe that majority of us reading your posts are either married or independent in one way or the other (parental indepencence) This world as we can see- is evolving and many young people are also evolving in their understanding (more that before when we were young and information as at that time was limited). Now, alot of young people are having this strong desire/interest to know more (even more than we older ones.. Lol).. And that brings me to this question: Sen what pointer would you give for a young person/people(lets say teenagers or early 20s) who are still under the strict hands of their parents, and would wants to undergo this journey towards being
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balanced Or who had been having some negativity which they wana transcend.. Are they to wait untill they are out of their parents house/strict hands, to begin to allow/let go (because it may contradict their parents beliefs).. Or is it too early for them to start now?. This question came as a result of a question asked to me by a teenage prodigy, and your clearance will be very helpful.. Thanks Reply yetty says: July 21, 2012 at 12:58 pm this made me realize so many things.thanks sen Reply Starlight says: July 21, 2012 at 1:23 pm Sen, I observed that there is this sense of satisfaction whenever the mind ruminates in thoughts of how those who have done wrong to me and gives justification to cut them out of my life. This is a pattern Ive observed since young, but I m still not seeing the whole picture. May I know why is this so? Reply True One says: July 21, 2012 at 4:37 pm Hi Sen, Thanks so much for all your kind help and the posts. I need your help please. My brother has a situation that needs help with but I dont know what to tell him. Could you please give me your advice. So here is his situation. My brother doesnt want to work and he hates working as he likes to be rich so he can enjoy life fully and does not have to work from 9-5 daily just like a prison. When he is at work he suffers by the fact that he has to work and he does not work harder or long hours to get promotion because he is not inspired to do so as he only goes by taking inspired action, so what should he do? he buys lotto sometimes and prays and hopes for inspired action to show him the next step but nothing has happened yet and is so frustrated. Whatd you suggest in this situation, I cant tell him he is fantasizing as I think if he has this desire to be free financially, the life force will deliver it but should he also do anything? maybe change his views etc. Kindly let me know. Thanks so much Reply abet says: July 21, 2012 at 6:30 pm Idk about the new readers, but the ones like myself who have been reading your posts fro a couple months now. It is like your posts have evolved parallel to my own personal evolution, when I have a deep question about something I almost always find it in your post Reply
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Orlando says: July 21, 2012 at 9:47 pm Same here Anne says: July 22, 2012 at 10:42 am I was just thinking the same thing. Dont now what I would do without you Sen. Casey says: July 23, 2012 at 2:21 am Me too! Hes been a big part of my healing. Kevin W. says: July 25, 2012 at 4:44 am Couldnt agree more anca says: July 22, 2012 at 12:29 am Hi Sen, What if somebody experience insomnia in the beginning of the process? I had insomnia two years ago when I had a strong anxiety moment because there were stress, fear and big chances in my life and it was like my brain couldn t adapt so quickly. Now I feel ok, I can allow intrusive thought, I reach to balance dark and light nature, I relax and I feel free like I can be myself again after many years of fear and feeling guilty and not knowing who I am. Now is the same I have insomnia but I feel good, more relaxed and pacient, I am not scared, I am not feeling guilty. The problem is that the sleep doesn t come. It is like there is a high level of energy in my brain and tension in the body. I hope this is not a psychosis or something of a kind. I don t think it is because all this makes perfect sense to me. But it is totally new and totally quickly. Maybe to quickly for me. I will take medication because the insomnia is very profound and than I will still follow this process because is the right thing to do. I am myself. Just that I realized how low was my level of awareness before and how unhappy I was because of that. If I take medication, you think it will affect my awareness? Reply Anderson says: July 22, 2012 at 10:54 pm Hi Sen, When I sit back to relax and just be aware, I have noticed that thoughts and images pop up in the mind, but they almost immediately dissolve or vanish again. Sometimes I wonder if Im kicking them out to get rid of them, but it doesnt feel Im doing that. I feel that the other option would be to put some focus on them, to let them stay at least for a few seconds, but I feel this is not correct as I feel this would be to feed the thoughts and images with energy and whatever little effort, something which is to be avoided. I also do not feel that I have any fear of my thoughts. Id be happy to let anything come up.. it would be great relief and steps forward, at least then something obvious is happening. So I dont think Im running away from my thoughts or mind. Perhaps I just need to get more stable in
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residing in the aware stillness. I do feel a difference when I relax in awareness (as much as my current capacity allows) as compared to those few times I have tried to think about nothing or have no thoughts. To try to have no thoughts is impossible, at least to me. I just end up having a thought about trying to not having thoughts. There are always thoughts (I guess since I sit in the mind trying to have no thoughts, which is impossible). But when I relax in awareness as per your pointers, I feel an immediate difference. It feels like that thoughts just dont come up that much, and those that do, they evaporate or fade away almost immediately, and they dont have much persistence to them at all. However, I dont think this is what you call phase 3 (letting go of what arises) because I feel I havent yet gained enough solidity in the awareness to having moved to that phase yet. So Im wondering if you could shed some light on my particular experience. Where am I standing actually? Warmest regards! Reply Suhasini says: July 24, 2012 at 9:59 pm Same here. Every time a question arises in me I find answer to that in Sens posts. thanks a million times Sen. Reply Abdi says: July 31, 2012 at 3:45 pm sen, thanks for your helpful article. one thing i want to tell you is that i feel pain and hurt when i give compliments to the people and they never thank me for that or if they ignore that. i feel stupid when the people ignore me or never show intrest what i did for them. I also feel needs of compliments and i crave for it dont know why. for example on the facebook when my friends put their photo there i always give them a good compliments with all my heart while when i put my photos on facebook they ignore it and never like and never give me any compliments but they give compliments to the other peoples photo etc. sometimes when i put status like meaningful words to encouraging the people they never like or they ignore it and they like and comments a bull shit status that other person put there. sometimes it kills me and i feel jealous because what i do is good things and they dont like it. i still dont know what to do so i decided to shut up and never like someones photo or status or give any compliments and never expect and compliments from the people ever again so am i wrong? is it good decision to leave the people alone and not expecting any thing from them ? sen i have been feeling this over sensitivity long time like 10 years and my childhood was horrible and scary. i was physically and emotionally abused by my parents, i was compared to my elder brothers by my parents and they always hate me for a little mistakes i make . I was also abused by my teachers, relatives, and some of the peers. I was been pulled by other children and elders many years of my life and now i am 26 years old. i feel sorry for my self and i need to overcome all this social anxious so please respond me and tell me something to do . your respond will help me a lot. thanks Reply Sen says: August 2, 2012 at 3:20 pm
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Abdi, there is a lot of meekness within you, which creates a servile vibe, which makes you come across as a person needy of approval. Even your good nature of being kind to people, and appreciating them, can seem contrived in the sense that you almost do it from a place of wanting to come across as a nice person seeking their approval in return. This basically a behavior created due to a imbalance towards light nature, where you are trying to be nice and loving out of fear/lack within you. Youve also suppressed a lot of anger within you, a lot of hatred that you feel towards the way you got treated during your childhood lies emotionally suppressed in you and you suppress it because you feel rooted in meekness, and hence are afraid of allowing anger (which is a more powerful vibration than meekness) in you. The growth path for you is to develop your sense of inner power and worthiness by letting go of this tendency towards meekness and servitude, you can find this inner power as you stop being driven from your minds conditioning and start connecting with your inner space. Its a journey of connecting with your inner being and bringing the wisdom of this inner space to your mind. Your mind will only keep working from its present imbalance it will either try to be nice (defensive) or it will try to be distanced/aggressive (offensive), both these behaviors come from the same state of imbalance created from the state of inner lack/fear. So instead of trying to find a solution through your mind, spend time connecting with your space of being, and from this space of connection allow a release of all the pent-up emotions of anger and fear created due to your upbringing. You can understand more about how to connect with your space of being, in these posts http://www.calmdownmind.com/the-space-of-being/ http://www.calmdownmind.com/fearless-within/ http://www.calmdownmind.com/working-with-thoughts/ Dancer says: August 5, 2012 at 2:11 pm Dear Sen, I have a question about emotions. There exists a notion of the emotions being our guidance system. When something feels good, exciting, coming from a place of joy/passion/happiness, it is considered being in aligment with your desired reality, your Inner Being, your purpose. When something feels bad, or as if coming from a place of fear/hatred/confusion, it is considered out of alignment with your desired reality, an untruth, and an interpretation of a situation your Inner Being does not agree with. My question is: when, at some point on the path towards a wholeness-based being, feeling little emotion (good or bad) and being able to have sad/happy/angry thoughts without feeling a strong corresponding emotion, what about the emotional guidance ? How would one be guided if thoughts do not elicit that much emotion? Or would the thought tone, or flavour, be enough to point in the right or wrong direction? What is your experience and view on this? Reply Sen says: August 7, 2012 at 4:13 pm Dancer, actually emotions are never an accurate guidance system, mostly because emotions are created by your minds thought process/interpretations which can come from a narrow, and even imbalanced, perspective. The guidance system you learn to rely on is your inner voice also called inner wisdom in the form of instinct, intuition, inspiration stemming from your connection with your inner being. This connection becomes more and more clear, and strong, as your mind momentum (and emotional momentum) starts ebbing away. Basically,
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when the mind momentum dies away (the emotional pressure is also done with) and in this place you wont have this inner conflict created by the two voices the voice of a conditioned mind and voice of your inner being (or voice of your life-streams intelligence). By voice I dont just mean words, I also mean a sense you get in the form instinct/intuition. If you notice, that the feeling excitement is not always an accurate guidance system it could just be coming from a deluded perspective in the mind. A lot of people commit some imbalanced action under the impulse of their over-excitement or under the impulse of passion. Also the bad feeling could be coming from a place of resistance in the mind for example the mind resists a low state, and spurs you to distract yourself instead of allowing the energy to release. Also, an imbalanced mind can create resistance (a bad feeling) about a wisdom based action so if you simply follow your minds reaction as your guidance system, you will just be lost to your minds responses, and the mind does have a lot of deluded thinking in its unaware state. abdi says: August 15, 2012 at 8:00 am sen thanks for your helping I want you to tell me how to concentrate on learning new thing like new languages, reading books and watching programs. i mean i cant focus on learning or doing something interesting. my learning ability is very week and i my memory isnt that good even my paying attention and focusing is bad . so please tell me how i can improve all these things ? please reply me and help me like you did before. thanks Reply
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