EMOTIONS ARE AT THE CORE OF ALL FORMATIONS,
WHAT WE FEEL, WE PAINT IN OUR LIFE THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION
FROM OUR CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD TO OLD AGE WE FEEL,
FEELINGS REPEAT THEMSELVES AS DO OUR EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCES IN LIFE
It is often said that the term ‘emotion’ means
energy in motion.
An emotion literally constitutes energy in motion
because each emotion entails feelings. A
feeling is an electric impulse created in response to external stimuli, which
mobilizes energy flow in the body.
When we
feel, we discharge electric energy in the body. This electric energy interacts
with chemical energy in the body and creates hormones... When we feel positive,
positive hormones are created and when we feel negative, negative hormones or
stress hormones are created. These hormones travel in neurological circuits in
the body. These neurological circuits have also been referred to as energy
circuits for the purposes of this book.
A neural
network connects the whole body and all the organs in the body. So, these
hormones travel all over the body. When positive hormones are produced in the
body, they have a positive effect on the overall health of the person. But, when
negative hormones are created, negative energy reaches the organs and the person’s
health is negatively impacted.
Since we
feel on a continuous basis, and hormones are released in our body,
consistently, negative energy also keeps getting released on a continuous
basis. This negative energy acts like slow poison in the body and overtime,
impairs the normal functioning of organs.
This
happens because each organ has a specific function in the body, and each
feeling we focus on is also related to a specific function of the body
For example, if we feel angry over someone who
disagrees with us, we are, actually unable to digest the disagreement. The
feeling of anger due to the inability to digest an idea is related to the
digestive mechanism. So, in this case, whenever we feel angry, the negative
energy released by the feeling reaches the digestive system. The digestive
system gets negatively impacted, and overtime- we develop a persistent
indigestion problem...
Similarly,
when we continuously feel we are unable to move in life at the pace we desire
to, because of obstacles in our lives, we develop joint pain or
arthritis—because the organs responsible for the function of maintaining a
smooth pace are the joints. Each time we focus on the feeling that we cannot
maintain the pace because of obstacles, we create electric impulses. The
electric impulses create the corresponding hormones, which travel in the
bloodstream and reach the organ whose function we are focusing on.
Thus, each
feeling we focus on produces hormones in the body.
The
hormones affect our health over a period of time, as they lead to accumulation
of negative or positive energy accumulation in the body. It is said that when
we focus on a negative feeling for seven years, it manifests into a physical
disease because of continuous negative energy accumulation.
So, if a
person suddenly develops asthma, the root cause of the problem may have been
laid at least seven years earlier – when the person started focusing on the feeling
that he/she cannot express himself as freely as he would like to. The feeling
would have impacted the smooth functioning of the vocal chords, and ability to
breathe freely since breathing is an expression of life.
Thus, the
feelings that we focus on impact our health critically.
If we can
be we are aware of how we feel from moment to moment, we would know the kind of
hormones being produced in the body, and the quality of energy flowing in the
body. Thus, we would know how we are impacting our health with our focus on
specific emotions over others.
The simple
choice to feel healthy, of course, is to feel positive. However, when we try to
feel positive, we realize that the process is not simple.
We keep
getting pulled into feeling negative, and we usually blame it on our negative
external circumstances. But, it actually happens the other way round. We pick
up information depending on the kind of energies/feelings we focus on in our
minds.
We, sort
of get caught in a vicious circle of negativity, through a consistent focus on
the negative—and subsequently, this vicious circle of negativity remains
maintained in the body. , and is reflected in the external circumstances that
we encounter.
An emotion is presumed to be created in
response to what happens in the external world .
However, from an
energy perspective--The reality that we perceive in the world outside is a
physical, expression of the feelings that we focus on, inside the mind.
In other words, our
internal feelings do not get created by an external reality. The external
reality gets created in our minds, by our internal focus on feelings.
All our thoughts and actions reflect the feelings we
are focusing on—and the outcomes that manifest, are a result of our
expectations of how things would be.
The scientific
explanation -- The empirically observable
phenomenon is that the dominant internal feelings we focus on determine our perception
of reality –i.e. what we take reality to be, and thus determine the further
recreation of feelings...
In other
words, we keep experiencing the same kinds of emotions repeatedly, irrespective
of the changing external circumstances, because our internal dominant focus
remains the same.
We
experience the feelings which match with our internal dominant focus. It is our internal dominant focus which
determines what we perceive in the external environment, and hence it is the
internal dominant focus which determines what we feel about the external world.
In layman terms, we feel, as we are used to feeling
irrespective of what happens outside. We get used to feeling pre-dominantly
negative or positive, because the body maintains an internal energy balance.
(Our hormonal
balance is a component of this internal
energy balance When we feel predominantly negative, negative hormones
keep getting released, and when we feel predominantly positive, positive
hormones keep getting released.)
Everything that happens outside is taken in the mind
in a way that the feelings we focus on remain the same so that the energy
balance of the body remains in equilibrium. Disequilibrium is heavily resisted
as far as possible, and the negative and positive energies interact so that a
stable level of equilibrium can be maintained in the body... So, the feelings
that get created are more dependent on the internal energy balance of the body
than on what happens outside.
As a result,
whether we feel predominantly positive or negative depends more on how we have
become habitual to feeling—than on external circumstances. Also, if we feel
pre-dominantly negative, it is not easy to shift to feeling positive because
the body resists any change in the internal energy balance. We are repeatedly
pulled into feeling negative.
Focusing on
the negative becomes an addiction. The
process of shifting to positive thinking becomes as difficult as dead diction,
from alcohol or smoking—because the hormonal balance of the body gets
disturbed.
Why this
happens is further explained below:
Feelings
are electric impulses. The feelings/electric impulses are constantly
produced in the body in response to its interaction with the external
environment. These electric impulses can be negative or positive.
The
electric impulses get created, as, in the process of interacting with the
environment, our body is constantly exposed to various forms of physical energy
in the environment, viz. sound, light, heat, smells etc. , but our brain cannot directly decipher the
presence of these forces directly. Our brain can only detect neural signals[1],
which are also referred to as electric signals.
Whenever
our sense organs decipher any information in the physical world, this
information is converted into electric signals and thus, reaches the brain.
So, our
brain does not perceive reality directly. It processes that reality into a form
which it can perceive i.e. a physical, tangible reality is converted into
electric signals, and only then, can it be perceived by the brain. So, whenever
the brain perceives an external stimulus, a corresponding electric
signal/sensation is produced in the body. The sensation is an electric charge,
which causes an energy movement in the body. Thus, an electric impulse is
created. Feelings are electric impulses created in the body in response to
the external stimuli.
However,
our brain receives millions of sensations at any given moment, but it can
perceive only a few, due to its limited processing capacity.
So, our mind has to give selective
attention to the reality happening
outside. Thus, it gives attention to some external stimulus only, and
ignores/rejects the remaining millions of bits of information coming its way[2].
Each form
of physical energy in the environment, whether it is light, sound, touch,
smell, or taste, is a manifestation of energy, and hence is vibrating—i.e.
emitting and receiving energies. Thus, each external stimuli has a specific
vibration, and vibrates in a specific frequency...
In other
words, each information coming from the external world, which is deciphered by
our sense organs, has an individual existing frequency.
For two
objects to resonate the frequency of one has to match with another; otherwise,
one will not fit in the other. Similarly, for two bits of information to
resonate, the frequency of one has to match with that of another.
Our sense
organs pick up, and pay attention to, only those bits of information whose
frequency matches/resonates with the internal energy frequency of the body.
As a
general rule[3],
the mind perceives and internalizes only that information from the external
world, which matches/resonates with the energy frequency of the body at any
given moment, and, rejects all the rest.
In
other words, -- at the level of energy transmission, we convert only a few bits
of information from the external world, into electric signals; since, we can
choose only those bits of information which resonate with our internal
frequency. All that information whose frequency, does not resonate with our
internal frequency—gets thrown out.
For example, if you believe that a shopping mall is
a good place to relax, you would pick up all those aspects of the shopping mall
which make you feel relaxed eg. You would notice the abundance, the lights, the
music, the grandeur etc. You would pick up all the information whose frequency
matches with the frequency of your internal belief. Thus, you would relax,
feeling that the world is a beautiful place to live in. You belief is
reconfirmed by the information you pick up and internalize. However, if your
spouse sees the shopping mall as just another shop, where he has to spend money—he
will not notice the lights or the abundance; and he would wonder what you like
in the shopping mall, other than spending money. So, you take in information
which you already believe in; and your spouse takes in information which he
already believes in…. Both of you take in only that information which matches
with your internal frequency, and ignore the rest.
Thus,
irrespective of the multitude of activity happening externally, only a limited
amount of information, is deciphered by the brain and internalized by the
subconscious mind.
This concept has critical practical implications in
our everyday lives.
With
this information, we, form a picture of the external reality.
For the mind, only that reality exists which
it perceives to be, i.e., that which it forms a picture of.
Since
the mind picks up only that information from the external world which matches
in frequency with the internal energy frequency of the body, the picture that
our mind forms of the external world is that which is in consensus with our
internal information base.
In
other words, for us, that world exists externally, which we believe exists,
internally.
The reality that we perceive to be is only that
which we already believe is.
The dominant feelings we focus on, play
a critical role in the information we take in, about the external world, since
they set the internal energy frequency of the body, as explained below...
The energy frequency of the body is the frequency of
the electric energy flowing in the body.
The
electric energy flows in the body as a result of electric impulses which are
constantly created as feelings are produced. These electric impulses/feelings
carry a electric charge and so, have individual frequencies.
The
frequency of the body at any one moment is the average frequency of all the
electric impulses being produced at that moment.
The
average frequency is most influenced by the dominant electric charge in the
body. The most dominant electric charge is that of the most dominant feeling
the person is focusing on.
Hence,
the energy frequency of the body is most affected by the most dominant feeling
the person is focusing on.
Hence,
we can generally say that, at any moment, the person picks up those energies which
match with the frequency of his dominant feeling at that moment.
The
most dominant feeling can be measured by the intensity of the feeling. Each
feeling carries an electric impulse within it—i.e. it carries energy. The most
intense/dominant feeling is the one which carries the most energy….
In everyday life, practically, we pay attention to
those aspects of the world or agree to those aspects of what other people say,
which resonate with what we already believe in—i.e. that which resonates with
our dominant energy frequency…
When we disagree to something, we feel a resistance
in accepting it internally. Our internal energies resist information coming in
whose frequency does not resonate with the average frequency of the internal
energies. Thus, we, energetically, accept or reject
information-- literally speaking.
As a result, we only
perceive those aspects of external reality, which fit in with our existing
model of the world.
The information we pick up, confirms our
existing dominant focus, whether it is on the positive or on the negative.
The
person feels positive when he has a positive perception of the world and his
life situation, and he feels negative in the opposite scenario. At any one
moment, a person is either feeling positive or negative. Whether his dominant
focus is on a negative or a positive feeling depends on what he already
believes the reality to be.
The
information about the external world, which is, taken in, is, that,
which is, in consensus with, what we already expect or believe that reality to
be[4].
Thus,
our dominant feelings reflect our current perception of the world, and the
information taken in re-confirms our existing view of the world.
For example--If the person is feeling sad, he
believes the world is an unhappy place to live in. The mind gives selective
attention to the external reality and picks up those aspects which match with this
person` s energy frequency at the given moment.
This person is in a negative frequency. In this frame of mind--he picks
up all energy from the environment which matches his dominant frequency. So, he
picks up the negative aspects of the reality happening outside.
He reads about traumatic
events in newspapers. He comes across other people who are unhappy, and he
feels blamed even when others are not intending to blame him.
If he
comes across something positive, he may allow himself to feel good for a few
moments, but, generally ignores the positive aspect considering it to be of
secondary importance. If his internal frequency is negative, the positive
frequency gets pushed out, after meeting resistance in the body.
Thus,
he gives primary importance to only that information which resonates with his
existing energy frequency i.e. which matches with his own dominant focus.
After
taking in all information from the world, which matches with his internal
frequency, he, now, believes that everything in the world is as negative as he
is believed it to be. This justifies his own focus on negative feelings.
By taking in all information which re-confirms his already negative view
of the world, he feels justified in feeling even more negative...
Once a dominant focus is established, the body adjusts
its intake of information, at an energy level, according to the dominant focuses
and forms an internal state of balance...
An internal state of
balance is acquired by the body in
tune with the person’s existing dominant focus.
As explained above,
Energy flows in energy circuits in the body. These energy circuits are also referred to as neuro-pathways or
neurological circuits.
The more we focus on some
feelings over others the more strongly the neurological circuits they flow in
become... There are billions of neurological circuits in the body as the neural
network is vast.
The positive or
negative energy in each circuit gets averaged out, and a dominant focus point is
established—which becomes the internal equilibrium position of the body.
The dominant
focus point can be negative or positive, depending on which feelings we focus
on more. So, if we focus more on negative feelings, a negative equilibrium gets
established, and if we focus on positive feelings more, a positive equilibrium
gets established.
The
equilibrium position is a position of internal balance of the body.
This internal
energy balance is not necessarily an optimal balance. If the balance
established is negative i.e as when the person is in bad health, then the
balance position causes the bad health syndrome to continue because the person
keeps getting pulled into a negative loop.
Once an
internal balance is established in the body, the principle of homeostasis[5] gets
activated in the body, which causes resistant to change.
Essentially, homeostatis
acts like a thermostat mechanism—which ensures that the internal state, which
is established remains constant or unchanged. This happens because the energy circuits
which are formed cannot be broken easily.
Since
energies of like frequencies get attracted by each other, these neurological
energy circuits keep pulling in information from the external world which
resonates with their energy frequencies. Any new energy is pulled and
transformed so that it can match and flow with the existing energies in the
neurological circuits. So, if the existing balance of the body is negative, the
energy exchange from the external environment is such that the existing balance
can be maintained. Once equilibrium is established, there is resistance in the
body to change it, and efforts are made subconsciously, such that an overall position
of balance is maintained.
Explaining differently--each bit of information
we perceive has energy, its own energy frequency, and a specific electric
signal...
The
information comes in, from a new sensation, perceived by our sense organs. When a new information comes in, it is
perceived as a sensation by the mind. Each
sensation is converted into an electric signal before it is perceived by the
brain. Irrespective of whether the new sensation produces positive/negative
feeling , at a given moment,-- overtime, the energy which flows from it , gets sucked
into an existing energy circuit and follows the movement of the most dominant
feeling in the body, such that the existing internal energy balance remains
maintained.
Thus, due to the
homeostatis mechanism, the current focus remains unchanged---inspite of
changing external conditions.
When a person is
feeling pre-dominantly negative, he is in
a state of a negative internal balance.
So, the energy occurring from a positive sensation gets converted into
negative, over a period of time ; but, if a person chooses to feel
pre-dominantly positive, the energy created by a negative sensation is either
released or converted into positive[6].
For
example, when we are in a front of a heater, we feel warm. The feeling of
warmth is an electric impulse created in the body, in response to the
perception of heat by our sense organs. Simultaneously, an emotion is created
in response to the feeling. For example, feeling warm in cold weather creates a
positive emotion in the body.
However, If the
person` s focus is on the negative at that particular moment, the person may
decide—happiness cannot be-- and reject the positive sensation created by the
feeling of warmth, as transitory; and continue to feel negative.
The positive feeling created by the feeling of warmth gets
ignored , and the energy accompanying the feeling, either gets thrown out
or gets converted into negative energy .
Thus, any new energy follows the dominant focus of energy current in the body.
The average energy flow in the body depends on the
intensity of each emotion being experienced at any given moment, and the most
dominant current take over the milder currents.
Continuing
on the above example, --if the person is feeling intensely angry over something , then ,
the slight positive feeling of warmth will not help much in making him
feel positive.
However, in the less
extreme scenario, if the person is feeling just mildly irritated, but is
pre-dominantly positive, he will let the positive feeling of warmth, add to
his already positive perception of reality. He will allow his mind to shift
to the happy feeling, and ignore the mild irritation he was feeling.
Thus, it is the
dominant existing current in
the body, which establishes an internal energy balance, and determines whether
the external energy coming in the body , adds to the positive energy flow or
adds to the negative energy flow[7] .
(Negative energy is felt
as blocks or obstacles, in the smooth flow of energy —eg, feelings like--this can’t happen,
happiness cannot be, create blocks in the process of what can be.
Additions to the negative flow of energy can also be viewed as subtractions
from the positive energy flow.)
Thus, whether a
person feels positive or negative in any situation depends more on how he
expects to feel in that situation, internally,
than on the external situation, itself.
The internal state of balance, which gets
established by a constant dominant focus on a particular feeling, becomes
a person’s identity. An
identity is defined as the way a person thinks about himself in comparison with
the rest of the world. Eg. I am fat, I am pretty, I am emotional, I am practical, I am confident
etc.. An identity is a person’s awareness of himself/herself.
The person’s
awareness of self , is an abstraction derived from the most dominant emotion/feeling he focuses
on. For example, if the person is constantly focused
on anger —He says to himself repetitively- I am angry—that feeling becomes his
state of internal balance, and his identity. This person thinks he is angry by
temperament.
Similarly, if he is focused on a sad feeling, he keeps telling
himself constantly—I am sad. That feeling becomes his identity. This person
thinks he is depressed by temperament.
The negative feeling which the person focuses on, becomes a label of the
person. Other people refer to him, as an angry person or a depressed person.
That reinforces his focus.
Thus, the external world only
reinforces the internal choice of
focus of the person.
The /person’s identity affects his self-worth. For example, If a person
feels low in confidence, it means that his focus is on negative aspects of
his/her personality.
With this choice of dominant focus, the person
notices all that happening within him and around him, which confirms his
negative perspective. Since he picks up information from the world which
matches his internal frequency, he ,is, usually, able to justify his anger or
sadness or his low confidence, and his resulting anguish .
He thinks he has to focus on a negative feeling
because external circumstances force him to—whereas, from an energy
perspective, it is the other way round.
He perceives the external circumstances as negative
because his internal energy balance is negative—and his internal energy
balance is negative because at some point in his present or past life, he
allowed himself to focus extensively on a negative feeling.
The negative
feeling he focused on created more energy
than the average current in his body, at that time- and thus, this
feeling with the highest energy intensity became his dominant point of focus.
Once a dominant focus is established--due to the homeostatis mechanism,
the person maintains a negative
internal state of balance--- even if external conditions change.
So, person who
is under-confident or angry or depressed, remains so unless he makes a
conscious attempt to change his point of focus, by being aware of what he is
focusing on from moment to moment. He needs to shift focus on positive aspects
of his personality even if it means defying his existing reality.
When he chooses to shift his focus on a consistent
basis, over-time his energy circuits change from negative to positive, and
thus, over-time he automatically starts picking up information from the
external reality which make his feel more positive.
Conclusion
Thus, we come to the
original point—that it is not the external physical reality which influences a
person’s perception of reality, or impacts his/her internal feelings but it is his existing emotional state of mind
which influences his perception of the external reality ; as it determines the
kind of information the person takes in from the external world.
Practically , this means that we lay emphasis
on some aspects of the external world and ignore the rest. We lay emphasis on
those aspects which match with our belief about ourselves and the world, and it
is only those aspects of the world which we lay emphasis on, which are take in
by the subconscious mind, and form the basis of our future expectations..
In a gist, the feelings a
person focuses on from moment to moment depends more on
what is happening internally, rather than what is happening externally. The person’s existing emotional state of
mind determines what he perceives in the environment and what he doesn’t.
The external reality
is perceived to be negative or positive,
depending on whether the person’s pre-dominant internal focus is on the
positive or on the negative emotions.
The choice to be able
to shift one’s focus on the positive—thus involves all changing all those beliefs
and memories of past experiences which have made the person believe in the
negative up till now. This is necessary also, so that the negative energy
accumulation in the body gets released , as only then, the negative energy
balance of the body can be tilted to positive.
A shift to positive
thinking or to feeling positive about oneself , cannot occur unless a conscious
attempt is made in the beginning to shift the point of focus.
This effort is met
with huge resistance within the body because the equilibrium position gets
disturbed and the body wants the person to continue focusing on the negative to
restore the equilibrium.
So, in the beginning,
after a few hours or a few days of focusing on the positive, consciously, --the
person again starts noticing negative aspects of the external reality ,
unconsciously, so that he can go back to
focusing on the negative.
If the person has been working on his beliefs
and has got over some beliefs which were making him focus on the negative, the
person may start noticing new negative
aspects of external reality- so that at the level of feeling/energy , he/she
can continue feeling as negative as was used to feeling before.
This cycle of deliberately shifting focus on
the positive, and then drifting back to focusing on the negative, takes a few months or years –
and conscious mind control--before a new focus can be established in the body.
An automatic focus on
the positive can only occur only when the energy circuits in the body have
changed direction and positive hormones have started getting released in the
body.
As we read in the next
prologue, emotional management is needed to help oneself to be able to shift
ones focus to positive , by helping one understand what it is that is making
one focus on the negative—and how true or false those beliefs are in the
context of the person’s current reality.
The process of
creating awareness of what one is focusing on, within the self- requires a continuous effort towards conscious mind control –but the rewards are far greater
than the efforts.
[1] The physical
properties of stimuli are converted into neural signals that are transmitted to
the brain through special receptor cells, through a process called
transduction—refer to PSYCHOLOGY by Robert A. Baron.
[2]
According to NLP research, the brain receives about 2.3 million bits of
information in a second, out of which it can process only 7-2 chunks of
information. The remaining remains ignored/unperceived.
[3] There
can be exceptions to this rule, as in when the intensity of the stimulus
received is high—Bright lights and loud noises make a difference. Eg. If there
is a bomb explosion, an earthquake—most people do turn and look, irrespective
of the internal energy frequency. However, even then, the extent of response
and internalizing of the information depends on the internal frequency of the
body
[4] In
psychology, there is a term called Confirmation Bias—which means that people
have a tendency to pay attention to only that information which confirms their
existing vies or beliefs—refer: Robert.
A. Baron-‘Psychology’.
[5] Refer to
Psychology by Robert A. Baron—section on motivation theories
[6] For example, if your hand gets burnt if fire,
you will feel negative , However, if you pre-dominantly focused on the
positive, you will take the experience of your hand getting burnt in a neutral manner and ignore it, or use it
for a positive learning, as explained thus: You may choose to ignore getting
burnt and continue focusing on the positive which you were focused on or you
may choose to feel happy that you have now learnt not to put your hand in the
future. You would take the negative experience as a learning lesson. So, when
the person is positive, the person either chooses to ignore the negative
feeling, and releases the negative energy or he/she chooses to learn from the
difficult experience, and uses the energy for his empowerment.
[7]
Metaphorically, the negative energy can be perceived as absence of positive energy. It has no
substance of its own. It just operates by creating breaks in the flow of
positive energy. When it is released or converted into positive, the positive
flow is restored, as happens when we train our mind to be neutral, as in a
thoughtless state, or to focus on positive—refer to self-help section for
further clarification.
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