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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
"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
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.
Depression is based on unrealistic expectations of reality,
one's actual place in the overall scheme of things,
an inability to except
life for what it is
and a failure of imagination.
"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
"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 GilbertIt 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 an initiation 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 freedom and the
fear of death reaches its heights.
We
want to be free but we haven't decided we're willing
to lose everything else to realize that freedom.
People are captivated by the endless task of securing those things that
they believe will make them happy in the long run.
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 are
true.
We realize the inescapable
truth of our own insecurity.
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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