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Q. Lewis, I am a very spiritual person. Still, often my emotions get in the way and I say and do things that I later regret. Do you have some tips to help me keep my emotions in check without simply repressing them?
A. Yes! How we engage in contemplation and deep introspection is deeply connected to patterns of emotional and non-emotional thought.
It seems that at the most basic and obvious level, the human mind seems to make notes of patterns — what psychologists generally call “pattern matching” or “pattern recognition.” Some of these patterns connect for us on a linear — intellectual level while others on an intuitive level.
An emotion is an elusive, capricious, mental, and physiological state that we associate with a wide variety of feelings, sensations, thoughts, and behaviors that we experience daily. Love and hate and an entire array of feelings, passions, and sensibilities all reflect what we classify as emotions. In order to function in the world, you must understand, integrate and express these feelings. Your ability to be in touch with and express emotion plays a large part in the types of choices you make.
“Knock, And He’ll open the doorVanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sunFall, And He’ll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.”― Jalal Ad-Din Rumi
There are many factors that define how you will respond to one stimulus or another, and how you will define these responses. There are general and multifaceted ways in which you respond to the world. You may process important information and respond through conscious and unconscious actions, feelings, bodily reactions, and behaviors. Some personalities are reflective of certain character traits — if you are a loving person for instance you will likely feel and express love more quickly or easily than you might express fear or sadness.
You cannot create a definitive description for the word “emotion,” but you can create a system for defining feelings or thoughts as “emotional,” since doing so will help your practice become more consistent. For our purposes, let us say that in your daily life you are generally in one of five emotional states. These are love, sadness, fear, and joy. The level of success that you have in your practice is greatly dependent on how you respond to one or another of these core feelings. Obviously, you can’t go through life being mad or sad and expect to get anything done, but there are ways of addressing your emotional needs and these needs must not be ignored if you want to nurture your practice.
Research indicates that emotions are related to areas of the brain that control motives, attention, motivation, and behavior. It is these same areas of the brain that define and prioritize the importance of events and circumstances taking place around us. This is valuable information for expanding the quality of your personal spiritual practice.
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Author: Lewis Harrison is a practical philosopher, an Independent Scholar, and a Results-Oriented Success Coach. He has a passion for knowledge, personal development, applied game theory, self-improvement, creativity, innovation, problem-solving, functional medicine, natural healing, and story-telling. He is a practitioner of Transmoderm Zen. Lewis Harrison is also a speaker, best-selling author, and the creator of the Best Course to Happiness…at Last.
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