E-Moting Emotion

2000-4-29 10:40:00

Where do I start here? You guys have given me so much material that it would take a book to cover it all - so forgive me here for what will be left unsaid. It looks like we may go a little longer on this subject than I planned, but that is all right because it is of great importance.

Let me start with a statement made by Rob, my oldest student on the web, and a beloved one at that. "Am I the only one that thinks as we evolve we feel our emotions MORE deeply? Why would anyone want to desensitize themselves to certain things? To me that's crazy."

If you want proof that Rob is on to the truth here all one has to do is examine the lives of highly evolved people and initiates. Let me name a few:

John F. Kennedy: Here was an initiate with a very powerful emotional body. When he was President I never missed an opportunity to hear him speak because he came across with such conviction, emotion and passion.

Martin Luther King: This was another very passionate man. The masses responded to him because he touched their emotions. If he had not had a powerful solar plexus he wouldn't have accomplished what he did.

Winston Churchill: He was another man with strong passions. Now this was a man who did not suppress at all for he freely let out the feelings that were brooding within him. As it was, he offended many people and had many enemies.

Abraham Lincoln: He was often enraged with the blunders of his generals. McClellan particularly frustrated him and after one such event he sat down and wrote a long letter venting his rage. But then he put it in a drawer and never sent it, but wrote and sent another more moderate letter instead. But at least he got the feeling out.

Helen P. Blavatsky: A very passionate female who was not afraid to show very intense emotion.

Jesus: His passion was illustrated in the chasing of the money changers out of the temple and his great sorrow in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Actually, the temple cleansing was a combination of mind and feeling in action. When he entered the temple and saw the money changers defiling his Father's house he felt a great rage build within him. The emotion was so intense that he felt it had to be released. Now most of us in a situation of negative feeling such as this would instantly react and lash out, but Jesus remained calm and mentally assessed the best way to release the emotion. He spent a considerable period of time gathering ropes and cords and braiding them together into a very intimidating whip. When he was satisfied with his creation he entered back into the temple and released his emotion by whipping the hell out of those oblivious bad guys. As they jumped back from his presence in great alarm, he overturned all their tables and released all the animals scheduled to be slain.

His supporters cheered him on as a hero and none of the temple workers dared defy either them or Jesus. This was a pretty gutsy thing to do any way you look at it. Every time I pass by a Mormon temple I wonder what would happen if someone were to barge in there with a home made whip and do the same thing today.

They may not slay animals there in this age, but they do deem people like me, Craig, Brian, Enoch, Susan, Lorraine, Sterling and others unworthy to enter through the doors. The Mormons are not alone here. There are many "spiritual centers" on the earth that could use a new Jesus entering the scene and bringing them to their senses.

The thing to remember about emotion and the solar plexus center is this. As one progresses upon the path the petals of this lower center unfold more completely along with the higher centers. Thus an initiate like Jesus actually has stronger feelings to deal with than does the average guy on the street.

The scriptures tell us that when we are perfected we will have "fullness' of joy. We cannot have fullness of joy unless all the parts of ourselves are full and functioning. The real fullness comes when all seven centers are full and functioning together in perfect alignment.

Does this mean that an initiate is more out of control than the average guy who may only feel half the passion?

No. An experienced weight lifter, for instance, may be able to lift 200 pounds easier than you or I could lift 50 pounds. Why is this? Because he lifts weights regularly and has built up his muscles much more than the average guy has. Therefore the 200 pounds is easy for him to lift and always under his mastery.

Even so an adept can control 200 pounds of emotional energy with much more mastery and ease than can a Meryl Streep type character who has difficulty with her 50 pounds.

Because the emotional intensity of one upon the Path is often so intense he or she must be even more careful than most to make sure the emotion is released and sent forth in as harmless of a direction as possible.

JWK eloquently writes:
"Has anyone else noticed how cathartic the recent honesty has been, and how it makes you feel closer to everyone because now they are dropping all that armor, and we can really see what's underneath. Could it be we are actually all human here? Probably the thing that most fear the most, being seen as they really are, has been the best thing to happen to this list in recent memory. Some might see this as a step away from the Spiritual, but I see it as dropping more armor."

The tendency of many of the "enlightened" is to portray themselves as "above" the personality world, with the emotions as a particular target of disdain. The truth is that many such people are either suppressing, in denial or just have an undeveloped emotional body.

There's something about emotional sharing that makes people "real" to each other, no matter what your state of evolution. One thing I can say in this regard is that John has been emotionally real from the beginning and many respect him for it.

I am happy to see the group removing some of the barriers that threaten to separate us. I am particularly happy to see that Rick and John have made peace, and are now very supportive of each other. Two people with soul contact can only be separated in the work for so long and then they must join in purpose.

Also, Glenys and Susan are harmonizing. I knew that correct communication could not help but bring oneness to these two great souls.

I am also glad to see Maryellen, Susan and others using the knowledge presented here on the list to give them encouragement to release their suppressed emotions. They will certainly testify that when you do it under the direction of the soul that it just feels so right.

Sherry, a great new addition to the list, writes:
"For me, the question was how to learn how to express anger or hurt in a positive and mature way. It really helped to learn how to say 'it hurts me when this or that occurs between us or I am feeling anger because this is what I see.' Those few words, or words similar, tend to put the feeling back on us, and rather than saying to our children, 'you do this or that,' we put it right where we are feeling it, and that, to me is what our emotional body is about...how we feel and react...however, it does feel good to say to her once awhile...stop acting like such a jerk, you are driving me crazy.. now that's expressing some feeling there!!!!! ....:-). But suppressing our feelings is not the same as expressing them, whether it is appropriately done or not, imo. I think of suppressing them as swallowing them, and then they begin to eat at us, to try to get out..this usually does happen, in the form of cancer or dis-ease. I think many of us have been taught that emotional reactions are wrong, and yet, we are emotional creatures, and so of course, we need our emotions, as others have implied?we need to control them, is all. Meditation is a great way to learn how to have the emotional body come under control of the mental body and our reactions tend to lessen when we meditate routinely, I believe...it is like the emotions do not build up...they are diffused, and so we can observe situations without reacting so strongly...imo."

JJ: There are two levels of negative emotion that we must deal with. The first is general anger and irritation at events, other people or us when things do not go our way or some type of perceived attack occurs. The second is genuine hurt of grievance apparently inflicted by someone you trust.

The key word for the solution to the first set of emotions is "control." Unlike grievances these emotions need to be controlled and even a certain amount of suppression does more good than harm. When these emotions are controlled over a period of time they lessen in power and become easier to manage.

One of the best examples of mastery over this type of emotion is demonstrated in a story I heard years ago.

A man was buying a paper at a newsstand and another customer bumped into him and blamed the collision on the guy and started cussing at him. As the man cussed him, the guy smiled pleasantly and paid for his paper. After the obnoxious one left the clerk marveled at the guy's demeanor in the face of rudeness and asked him why he did not attack the guy back.

To this the potential Keyster gave this reply:

"Why should I give that man power to determine my course of action? I have already decided that this will be a pleasant day so I will control my destiny, not give it to the hands of a stranger."

This first group of emotions is thus mastered by taking your power back and putting it in its right location - which is within yourself. When I have this type of emotion I release what feels right, but when my soul says "enough" I tell my emotional self to calm down and behave.

With the second group of emotions control, and especially suppression, is a deadly enemy. The key word for this group is "direction."

Why is direction the key word here and how is it to be used to neutralize grievance? How does forgiveness fit in?