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"The things that separate us from animals are: the ability to discern the difference
between right and wrong and to make decisions
not according to our desires and emotions." - Laura McCants
"We understand emotions as practical action
programs that work to solve a problem, often before we're conscious of it." -
Antonio Damasio
"Individuals believe in their own uniqueness, we
think we're so emotionally different from others - we refuse to use the
information that's right before our eyes." - Daniel Gilbert
When a human, or animal, feels threatened one of
either two emotions will occur - fear or anger. Fear is expressed as the
emotional desire to flee while anger is expressed as the emotional desire to
fight.
"It is not the conception of truth that will
change sorrow.
Sorrow, like
joy, is absolute." - Henri Barbusse
"Emotions like sadness serve to give us important
information about ourselves and the
nature of life. Those needed insights teach us how
to master the ups and downs of life. Melancholia has
its upsides, but rather than champion one emotion over another why not
embrace them all. Maybe if we
knew how to take charge of our emotions, we'd ultimately find the satisfaction
we seek." - Darlene Mininni
"Sympathy prompts a person to offer the first
favor, particularly to someone in need for whom it would go the furthest. Anger
protects a person against cheaters who accept a favor without reciprocating, by
impelling him to punish the ingrate or sever the relationship. Gratitude impels a beneficiary to reward
those who helped him in the past. Guilt prompts a cheater in danger of being
found out to repair the relationship by redressing
the misdeed and advertising that he will
behave better in the future." - Steven Pinker
Emotion is defined
as:human feelings or sensations named as the
words listed above
any strong
inner feeling
a state of mental agitation or disturbance.
the
part of the consciousness that involves
feeling; sensibility.
of the mind
alone, being the excited action of intuition or
feeling.
a mental state that
arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by
physiological changes; a feeling or
sensation.
Vertigo is an example of how our
emotions manifest themselves
physically.
"Fear is the great tool of
mass manipulation. It sells everything from
insurance to deodorant and builds
audience ratings for cable
news. Historically it was used to promote a
catalog of wars and ideologies, and it has been responsible for
witch burnings and a spectrum of
racism.
The panic button simply
needs disconnecting. Time to forgo the scare tactics and replace
anxiety with clarity, while we all,
without exception, take a deep breath and move to the
metaphoric exits, managing not to trample
each other in the process." - Mick
Farren
"Fear is the mind
killer
I will face my
fear
I will
let it pass through me
Fear is
the mind killer
I will face my fear
I will let it pass through me
Fear is the mind
killer
I will face my
fear
I will
let it pass through me"
-Maud'dib
I
don't believe it!
Oh shit that isn't what I wanted to
happen!
Do you really think so?
Diagnostic fMRI scanning
procedures that cause active areas of the brain to "light up" onscreen are
allowing researchers to peer into the human
brain while it's at work.
As a result,
they can better see, in real time,
how we react
both neurologically and biochemically to emotional triggers.
Such glimpses
are giving scientists a new
understanding of the
biological basis of emotion.
"Most of the brain is
dominated by automatic processes, rather than deliberative
thought. A lot of what happens in the
brain is emotional, not cognitive."- George Loewenstein, a
behavioral
economist at Carnegie Mellon
University.
Our brains detect danger, for example, and initiate
body wide physiological responses like increased heart rate, perspiration and
muscle tension sometimes before we even realize we're afraid.
There is
a syndrome called alexithymia in which a person experiences the same physiological response
associated with an emotion as a normal
person, as recorded by an fMRI scan, but is unaware of having the
emotion.
Many of our emotional responses are hardwired into our
brains, meaning that our conscious "feelings"
may play less of a role in
creating emotional responses than previously
thought.
As well, our automatic
emotional reactions may have a much
stronger impact on our physiology than previously understood.
"The most
beautiful and most profound
emotion we can
experience is the sensation of the
mystical. It is the sower of
true science. He to whom this
emotion is a stranger, who can no
longer wonder and
stand rapt in
awe, is as good
as dead." - Albert Einstein "Emotion rather than reason appears increasingly to guide
social, educational and
political propositions. The eclipse of
empiricism by
superstition is not exclusive to either
the political left or the political right." - Christopher W. Williams
"One nagging thing I don't understand about myself is why I'm still
fooled by incidental feelings. Some 25 years ago I studied how gloomy weather
makes one's whole life look bad -- unless one becomes aware of the weather and
attributes one's gloomy mood to the gloomy sky, which eliminates the influence.
You'd think I learned that lesson and now know how to deal with gloomy skies. I
don't, they still get me." - Norbert Schwarz
Depression is based on
unrealistic expectations of reality, of one's actual place in the overall scheme of
things, in an inability to except
life for what it is and a failure of imagination.
"The clinically depressed are less susceptible to
basic cognitive errors. The clinically depressed recognize the
illusion for what it is. Unhappy people
have the more accurate view of
reality."
-
Daniel Gilbert{CORRECTION:
LIKELIHOOD OF DEPRESSION NOT DEPENDENT ON GENETICS
A new study released in
June 2009 debunks an original study that concluded that a single gene
determined one's risk of depression in response to a divorce, a lost job or
another serious life reversal. The original study followed 847 people from
birth to age 26 and found that those most likely to sink into depression after
a stressful event - job loss, sexual abuse, bankruptcy - had a particular
variant of a gene involved in the regulation of serotonin. Those in the
original study with another variant of the gene, that had orginally appeared
significantly more resilient, were found to be no different. }
It
is almost unheard of to value
depression as an important catalyst in a
larger living process.
Depression, when correctly understood,
affords an individual the
opportunity to
deepen, empty, and open one's
heart.
The current popular ideology of
materialism has the
mistaken notion that the point of
living is the successful attainment of situations and conditions -
material security - safe and secure
equals happy.
Depression is defined by
materialism as the nemesis of
happiness.
Depression, from a
materialistic viewpoint, indicates
a fundamental failure in living.
The truth
is that none of the circumstances that we struggle to achieve will last and
they do not provide the height and depth of freedom
we desire in any case for any length of
time.
True freedom resembles
more a surrender of our unattainable, unrealistic and egotistical desires
than a victory over situations and conditions.
True surrender becomes possible as we
shift from cognitive dominance, the need to control,
to submission, the ability to
accept, to directly experience, to immerse
oneself, in the joy of living.
True freedom
exists at the center of our being, our innermost
soul, the point where the
divine spark of
God exists in each
man's soul.
At
the heart of happiness,
peace and contentment is the ability to
live where we are, as we are, to
interrupt the assumption that we must escape or change our present
experience to become whole.
We cannot become safe, secure, or free of discomfort, but we
can be who and where we are and realize we are already whole even while
experiencing
emotional pain, sadness or
loss.
The
experience of
emotional pain, especially
that based on a false
understanding of
reality, provides the motivation and ultimately the
inspiration to discover and live a
life based on the truth.
Many experiencing significant
depression come to the conclusion that
happiness cannot be won through attainment.
The depth of the depression
marks an individuals proximity
to the obviousness of surrender. At some point surrender may become obvious and
choiceless as every other option is extinguished.
"One cannot reach the
dawn save by the path of night" - Kahil Gibran
Depression is a sign that a spiritual
rebirth is immanent and necessary.
Depression marks a potentially significant
spiritual break from one's old
life - beliefs,
opinions and attitudes.
Depression
manifests as the struggle between the longing for material
freedom and the fear of
death reaches its heights - at the bottom of the abyss.
"Fear of
death really equates to a fear of life, which is about growth, change, and
transformation, a continual dying of the old and birth of the new, season to
season and moment to moment." -
Charles
Eisenstein
We want to be free. To realize
that freedom we must be willing to give up the old
beliefs and opinions we
cherish.
People are captivated by
the endless task of securing things they
believe will make them happy.
Unfortunately, in the long run we all
face the reality of
the end of everything we so
dearly cherish.
We see that our worst fears of loss are
true.
We realize the inescapable
truth of our own insecurity, we will die.
When one collapses into depression one holds the notion that I am
unique in this frailty, that I have unjustly been singled out as a loser and
that everyone else has it better than me.
It is the
belief that I, in particular, have failed at the
life task everyone else is succeeding at.
The
pain of life being so terribly out of sync with previous
expectations reaches a feverish pitch.
One
realizes that one cannot continue to live as one has.
At this point many people make the
mistake of committing
suicide.
They can
not release the belief that the only way to be
happy is to have life work out according to their
unrealistic expectations.
We are
depressed because we can not accept the
fundamental inevitability of the pain of
loss.
Those that end their lives
simply cannot accept the utter nakedness of moment to moment
awareness that does not depend
on the ego.
If I give up now, accept my
death before I die then there is nothing to fix,
nothing else to do but continue to live.
At
this point I intuit that the present moment can be experienced as whole in
and of itself.
-adapted from Brian Adler
There is an irrational part of every
human that wishes that actual reality would be different from that which
reality actually is. That
wish is tied to desire.
Desire causes humans to
fantasize, wishing
reality to be different than reality is.
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