Emotions

Forgiveness is well known as being the central teaching of Christianity and not only Christianity. Same is right about mercy, humility, loyalty, acceptance and many more. There is a lot of stories approving all this stuff in any religion. But it must have some meaning beyond the “taught” one. And it has. All these human qualities are built upon emotions. C. G. Jung wrote in his “Aion”, “Emotion, incidentally, not an activity of the individual but something that happens to him.” This phrase is a key. Once you fall a victim to your emotions you don’t control yourself anymore but you’re controlled by stereotypes given by religion or mass media. And same is right for the guilt, fear, shame, envy, and many others. Emotions are our reactions to our thoughts. In contrast, there is another type of reactions. Reactions to changes in our real world – instincts. Difference between these types seems to be obvious, but it’s not. Reality of our world depends on our understanding of it. Freud wrote in “Beyond The Pleasure Principle”, “consciousness arises in the place of the memory-trace”. Our memories are different and understanding may change from life to life. But one day it stops changing and forms instinct on the place of emotion – it’s a part of the personal development process. Before it happens the whole process of instinct development looks much like conflict. It happens in anahata. And it’s what hurts when you try to open it. Back to emotions. There’re many ways to work with all this stuff. I’ll show one. This is US dollar, picture from its back.

This pyramid with a “Big Brother” eye is a very interesting symbol, but it’s unusable in this form. It would make much more sense in this form

Identify yourself with this symbol and try to look at something making you emotional. If you did it right you should understand at this point why it touched you. That’s it.