“Emotions and feelings in life are like water in the ocean which will never dry.”
Basically, expressing emotion is a mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes; a feeling.For example, emotions of joy, sorrow, love, hate. Its the part of consciousness that involves feeling; sensibility.
“The very essence of literature is war between emotion and intellect” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
Different people define emotions in different ways. Dr. Maurice Elias says, “Emotions are human beings’ warning systems as to what is really going on around them. Emotions are our most reliable indicators of how things are going on in our lives. Emotions help keep us on the right track by making sure that we are led by more than the mental/ intellectual faculties of thought, perception, reason, memory.” Emotions control our way of thinking, behavior and actions. Emotions affect our physical bodies as much as your body affects our feelings and thinking. People who ignore, dismiss, repress or just ventilate their emotions, are setting themselves up for physical illness. Emotions that are not felt and released but buried within the body or in the aura can cause serious illness, including cancer, arthritis, and many types of chronic illnesses. Negative emotions such as fear, anxiety, negativity, frustration and depression cause chemical reactions in your body that are very different from the chemicals released when you feel positive emotions such as happy, content, loved, accepted. Just as the pleasure – pain mechanism of the man’s body is an automatic indicator of his body’s welfare or injury, a barometer of its basic alternative, life or death, so the emotional mechanism of man’s consciousness is geared to perform the same function, as a barometer that registers the same alternative by means of two basic emotions: joy or suffering.
I think there are two basic emotions of life are LOVE and FEAR. All other emotions are the variations of these two basic emotions. Our behavior and thoughts come from either a place of love or a place of fear. I said love and fear the basic emotions because all other different emotions come from these two as anxiety, anger, control, sadness, depression, inadequacy, confusion, hurt, lonely, guilt, shame, these are all fear-based emotions and joy, happiness, caring, trust, compassion, truth, contentment, satisfaction, these feelings belong to love-based emotions. There are varying degrees of intensity of both types of emotions, some being mild, others moderate, and others strong in intensity. For example, anger in a mild form can be felt as disgust or dismay, at a moderate level can be felt as offended or exasperated, and at an intense level can be felt as rage or hate. And the emotion that always underpins anger is fear.
Well, it was a typical definition of emotion. Lets get through the opinions of some of my friends as Sunny Saini (columbia college) said “Emotions are virtual part of our life which always distract us from our target”. If we compare the definition above and the one said by Sunny Saini, both are exactly opposite. So I can say everyone has his/her own opinion. As an example, one more friend of mine, KATE, answered my some questions and she said “Emotions are something which we can not control and give any explanations that why they arise inside us, why they make us behave totally different every time.” She also said that “emotions help us to move our lives further, give us energy and self confidence in what we are doing. Emotions are the results of our actions and the proof that our soul is still alive”.
About emotions, my brother and also President of Columbia College, Gautam Singh Jande (Gomzi) said that “sometimes people avoid others because they are scared of other’s emotions or their own emotions towards them, but instead of keeping emotions buried inside they should show them. It not only give others a sense of how that person treats them but also help the person to find out if having any emotions for someone is worth it or not.”
Also my friend Vishal Arora said something about emotions that “emotions are the integral part of life without which life is just a lie”. According to Vishal, emotions are very important for us in our lives. I also asked my biology teacher, Dr. Simon Duffy, about this typical feeling called as emotion. He said “Emotions are spiritual, personal as well as biological.” So, I can say that every person understands emotions in different ways. It takes a lot of work to look at yourself and identify the beliefs that are affecting your life in a positive or negative manner. However, knowing your beliefs will give you a sound basis for emotional freedom.
In the end, I will say that emotions are our feelings we can not stay apart from. Don’t be afraid of your emotions. Don’t fight them, run away from them, blocking them out. Welcome them, be with them, regardless of what they are. We were born with all emotions. They are neither good or bad, they just are. Emotions dissipate and slowly disappear if you feel them, and are present with them. Just close your eyes and feel them as deeply as you can.
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