Emotional energy is powerful and expresses the way we feel.
We may choose to deny it, but the fact remains that each of us can and must be responsible for our emotional expression and control. Each of us can and must learn to change for the better our feelings and emotional response patterns that we inherit at our birth and that are modified or developed to become inherent in our personalities as we mature.
We must be capable of appraising our emotions and rejecting, altering or cultivating them as we choose to consciously build our character. Then our emotional energies will be inclined to be positive. They are as necessary for our total well being as the energies of our minds.
Emotions require encouragement and habit practice to maintain their patterns and energies of the quality you desire to adopt and express from the range of possible emotion and human feeling. The range is wide from gentle feelings of compassion, sympathy and loving kindness to the fervent passions that can be directed towards people, causes and to life itself. There are many grades of both quality and intensity in between.
In making our choices, the most obvious benefit is to cultivate our feeling nature through the positive emotions of love and happiness and to overcome or reject the negative fears, hatred and depression that can do much damage not only to ourselves but to others around.
We can express love in a hundred ways beyond the physical sexual exchange and general displays of affection. Happiness is experienced as the result of our optimism and enjoyments. Because the emotions are responsive to movement and action and sensory stimulus, we must take care to discriminate in our choice of enjoyments. Avoid feasting the senses on things of ugliness, violence and discord, but rather, satisfy the senses through beauty and natural things to ensure a healthy development of the emotional nature.
The mind as our directing intelligence guides and channels our emotions towards our life objectives. Their interaction makes mind and emotions interdependent, with equal reliance upon the other. Any conflict between mind and emotions generally results in indecision, depression or in emotional storms which temporarily damage any determined intent of the mind.
Get to know your emotional moods and energy and learn to be happy and to expand your capacity to experience positive emotions, the greatest of which is love. But let your emotional nature be directed under the leadership of your thought.
Although it is true that we vary and that some of us have a greater or more intense emotional component in our nature than others, emotional power and enthusiasm is never disregarded or neglected by anyone with a healthy mind!
Sally Janssen’s wonderful book “Mental Fitness: A Simple Self-Help Guide”, offers simple and timely solutions. Read more…
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