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Emotions And Beliefs
The Mental Factor
We can look to the beliefs and thoughts that we hold as the source of the emotions within us.
Consider that in any specific event or circumstance, emotions may arise in you that would not necessarily arise in another person. Something that can cause high levels of nervousness and trepidation for you may be a source of great joy and anticipation for someone else. Why would that be? The truth is that you hold a Belief System about:
the way Things are
the way You are
the way Others are, or
the way the World/God/Creator/Universe is.
It is important to distinguish between these “Learned Beliefs” that reside within the subconscious, and “Logical Beliefs” that result from conscious thinking, experience and decisions. Somewhere in our experience, we 'learned' that we were "not good at sports" or "not worthy of success" because someone who we looked up to said so, and later events seemed to confirm it. Because these Learned Beliefs are subconscious, we are generally not aware of them. We need to pay attention to our emotions to point the way.
Any time you experience some kind of 'angst,' 'bother' or 'stress,' it is really a form of emotional pain, though we are never really taught to look at it as such. Notice where and how it feels in your body - tightness in the chest, or a spasm in your gut, or some other pain or discomfort.
The main culprit is actually fear: the stress response is a reaction to perceived danger, after all. However, our fears are often accompanied by sadness, frustration, anger, etc and sometimes these other layers have to be dealt with before the fear can be addressed.
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is an effective way to address all forms of emotional pain. When you have a tool such as EFT that helps you deal with intense or unwanted emotions, you'll find you can become more in-tune to your feelings. This kind of personal awareness is certainly a healing and growth process, resulting in enhanced Emotional Intelligence - an ability to both better understand and express yourself.
"In our mental formations, there are flowers such as faith, hope, understanding, love, but also waste material like fear and pain. The flower is on its way to becoming refuse, but the refuse is also on its way to becoming a flower. There is
nothing to throw away. Pain
and suffering are a necessary
condition of our understanding,
of our happiness."
"Emotion is the body’s reaction to your mind. Indirectly, it can be a response to an actual situation or event, but it will be a response to the event seen through the filter of a mental interpretation"
Eckhart Tolle
Emotional pain (such as stress, anger and frustration)
results when there is conflict in any situation between
the Truth of What Is, and:
What you perceive to be true (the situation filtered
through your Learned, subconscious belief system)
OR
What you believe to be true (the situation filtered
through your Logical, conscious beliefs)
Beliefs can and do change, and with it our perceptions
and stress responses will as well - which is how healing
can be addressed from a mental perspective.
Thich Nhat Hanh
"The emotions are an incredible gift that we have to let us know what we're thinking."
Bob Doyle
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DISCLAIMER: Information on this site is not intended to and does not constitute medical advice, recommendation or counselling under any circumstance.
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The Emotional Factor
Emotion = energy in motion. Emotions are part of the human experience, and in and of themselves are never 'bad.' We are meant to experience the whole gamut, the highs and the lows. However, if our emotions are not properly acknowledged, accepted, and processed, motion stops or is disrupted (energy block) and physical symptoms arise. This happens when we feel ill-equipped to deal with an emotion (ie, it's too intense) or when we deny the emotion in some way (ie, boys don't cry)
dissolve the mental
and emotional factors that
can cause and/or contribute to pain and stress.
