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May this find you well and happy. ********************************* This is Part 4 of your 18 segment weekly email course which you requested on "Understanding and Managing Emotions". For much more on this subject we suggest the book "The Psychology of Happiness" by Robert Elias Najemy which can be found as pdf ebooks at http://HolisticHarmony.com/ebooks/index.asp and also in your booksores, at Amazon.com or for 40% discount at http://www.HolisticHarmony.com/psychofhappiness.html May you enjoy it and benefit from it. ********************************** THE RESULTS OF SUPPRESSING EMOTIONS Suppressing our feelings can have some of the following results: 1. We create psychosomatic illnesses, such as asthma, allergies, colitis, rheumatism, cancer, headaches, and hormonal imbalances, as well as a variety of other physical, emotional and mental imbalances. 2. Our emotions are passed on to others any way. They experience the subconscious effect of what we are feeling and actually react to that rather than to the mask we wear in an effort to hide what we feel. 3. We lose the opportunity to communicate openly and honestly so as to create sincere relationships. 4. We fail to learn from the experience as mentioned above. WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF OUR EMOTIONAL NATURE? The ancient Indian sage Patanjali (300 BC) gives us a clear understanding of the human personality complex, its motivations, workings and relationship to the soul. Perhaps a numerical approach will explain more clearly the generation of emotions: 1. We are souls. We exist as consciousness before the birth of the physical body and long after its death. We are divine consciousness that has no beginning and no end. We incarnate into a physical body. 2. This incarnation is part of an evolutionary learning process. We learn through the body and personality to experience more perfectly our true inner nature and express it externally in the material world. 3. The process of discovering our real nature is called enlightenment, self-realization, liberation or self-actualization. HOWEVER: 4. Once in the body, we lose awareness of and are ignorant of our true spiritual nature, divine consciousness and energy. 5. This ignorance or amnesia of our true nature causes us to identify with the body and mind through which we are experiencing the world. This is roughly equivalent to our thinking that we are the clothing that we change on a daily basis. This identification generates a sense of ego or personality, which is similar to our clothes thinking that they are the real us. A sense of "I" and "mine" are generated, and the ego grows an illusionary power of its own. This is also like the electrical energy, that passes through a light bulb, forgetting its nature as energy and believing it is the light bulb, thus becoming concerned with how it appears in relationship with other bulbs and what those other light bulbs think about it. Also there will be fear that perhaps the bulb might break, which would mean "death." Thus, our two main fears are of death and rejection. But the electrical energy is one and the same in all light bulbs and does not perish with the death of the bulb. 6. This identification with the body and mind then generates a variety of attachments and aversions. Depending on our role-identifications, we will prefer some objects, people and experiences, and will want to avoid others. For example: a. When we identify with the role of the parent, we might be susceptible to the following attachments: 1. To being obeyed by our children. 2. To ensuring their health, happiness, grades and success. 3. To making sure our children are compared favorably to other children. 4. To being able to control them. 5. To their accepting our advice. and the following aversions towards: 1. To our childrenšs becoming ill. 2. To our childrenšs keeping company with other children of whom we do not approve. 3. To criticism concerning how we are bringing up our children. b. When we identify with the role of the spouse, we might be susceptible to the following attachments: 1. Exclusivity on our spousešs attention, love, affection and sexuality. 2. Our spousešs happiness and satisfaction 3. Our spousešs approval and acceptance. 4. Our spousešs health and success and the following aversions towards 1. To being criticized or rejected by our spouse 2. Toward him or her paying attention to others of the opposite sex. 3. To our spouse becoming ill. Each role creates a set of attachments and aversions that then limit our happiness and peace, creating negative emotions when they are not fulfilled. Steps 4 through 6 show the evolution of emotional nature. When we fear that an attachment will not be fulfilled, we react with fear, anger, jealousy, hatred or perhaps depression. The same happens when we are presented with situations, people or objects that we would rather avoid. Our uncontrolled negative emotional reactions are proportional to our identification with our ego roles and their attachments and aversions. We are creating our own hurt. We are victims of our own ignorance and programming. Our suffering is created by our own beliefs, not by what others do or do not do. Others are the stimuli, which trigger our programming and cause our negative feelings. We can begin slowly to work our way out of this darkness. 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