Big Emotions - The Capitals

[kokopelle]

I've been thinking about how we perceive emotions and how we really understand the "capital" emotions. I've got experience with Depression, but not with Anger or Sadness. The latter look like anger or sadness to me because I can't relate to people who are fully in the grip of the capital emotions. So, if a helpful person says, "emotions like anger, sadness and depression are signs of disconnection from our higher selves", than they are relating from either a general mix of emotions or are not factoring in the capital letter types.

To me, the crux of the matter is that the techniques that use general emotions are applicable when a person has a capital letter emotion, but the stakes are higher and the work is much tougher. Books/material written for the general public cannot and should not focus on each capital letter of emotion. Sadly I suspect that many people have some variation of capital emotion. Does this mean general techniques are compromised? No... it just means that we are all terribly human.

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[chimerae.livejournal.com]

This is too geeky for most people, but maybe with your engineering mind you can hear the meaning behind these awkward words.

I heard emotion once "conjugated" as EMotion, shorthand for Energy in Motion

Sometimes these make for nice clean direct flows -- like current through a wire off poles in a battery -- but most of the time it's a lot more like the consequence of a whole bunch of off rhythm magnetos and other forms of induction. Resistance in the carrier(s) (impurities in the wire) also block current and cause things to heat up, which uneven affects relative capacity for flow so the Energy in Motion shifts to strange routings.

Add to that the MECHANISMS (as opposed to the wisdom and consciousness) of memory, imagination, and group association that is relationship, family, and culture. Everybody who can is grabbing up the "good" emotions and running as fast and hard as they can from the "bad" emotions of themselves and others.

We're living adapting organisms, so Energy in Motion through OUR "wiring" changes the wiring in such a way that we're able to carry more load in conduits we use alot. So -- if I have the "habit" of joy I'm apt to experience more joy both because of internal reasons AND because I'm apt to sluff off the more unpleasant stuff if I have the capacity.

I tend to end up view the whole thing as shifting valence stoichiometries. Except, of course, each and every one of us has some option of choice and consciousness. Not to choose is to choose -- we can be no more than the sum of our wiring in an environment and Energy in Motion will flow through us as a consequence of wiring. If we choose, we then engage a sort of conscious concurrent open-heart and brain surgery. We're attempting upgrades on our own CPU's while they're running and feeling every shift.

There are easier ways to upgrade your personal psychobiological CPU. If you shut off sections of your awareness and choice mechanisms and benign "others" intercede, load capacities can get shifted around so that there's greater option for joy and less options for depression -- antidepressive drugs do that, religion does that, Teachings and Practices do that. Because we live so close to each other in our current world, at the moment these interventions usually involve a promise for a different social geometry -- Use the right intention and GET MORE STUFF and you'll be happy.

I don't know how you feel about it, but I think you have one of the coolest current social geometries I have ever seen. You seem to have good relationships with interesting people both at home and at work. You do cools stuff all the time.

It always sounds like your memory is overloaded with "bad programming" out of your past. REALLY shifting your programming involves changing your routings and increasing options for Energy in Motion. Fortunately AND unfortunately, every time to head down that road, your intellect kicks in and you route for maximum safety and ease for yourself and your context. With that sort of a quality social geometry, it would be crazy not to invest in protecting and preserving.

There are lots of ways to do what you're trying to do, but part of it seems to me to get honest about your own excellence and the genuine uniqueness of some of your experience and the commonness of some of your challenges.

If someone with your extensive capacities underutilizes your anger and fear circuitry, and over utilizes the familiar depression circuity you're not able to get enough resources working to shift to the next level.

My experience is that the "higher self" doesn't HAVE emotions the way our human selves do. The whole blissed out thing is an echo of an experience -- at breakthrough when we connect with our higher selves, yes there's that moment, but past that there's something very different.

We're in a human incarnation for a REASON. Running away from it is like going to college and then spending all your time in the dorm lobby.

[greensh.livejournal.com]

Energy in Motion... cool.

I find your comment about my social geometries to be interesting. I find myself to be pretty boring and while I am "known" by people, very few are considered as close associates. I think my dreams are a better representation of my energetic/spiritual connections. I know many more people in my dreams and interact with these varied people. The thing I do know is that my potential, my possible energy in motion, is tremendous. One day I will realize it.