5 emotions that need your close attention

In my previous posts, I briefly discussed the importance of emotions and how they shape our personality. I want to elaborate on the 'emotions' part because that's the origin of personality for the most part. What you feel, what you think, and what you do shape who you are! Let's start with emotions- one crucial part of self-discovery. Emotions are interesting since it is not always straightforward and they're not isolated at a given time.

Emotions vibrate at varied frequencies, and the higher the frequency, the more energy you become, and the less matter. Essentially, we aim to become more 'energy' and less matter, so it's imperative to pay attention to our feelings. It's important to release the energies trapped in the bottom three Chakras, so we quintessentially elevate the quality of life. The first step is to fix how we feel.

Here is the list of emotions that have lower vibrational frequencies and the descriptions of the same, so we can have a chance to recognize them and find the root cause when we experience, and hopefully steer clear of:

• Shame: Brene Brown says, "I define shame as the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging—something we've experienced, done, or failed to do makes us unworthy of connection. Shame is one emotion with no productive value, that makes us feel ignoble. This emotion is one of the lowest frequency feelings and makes us more matter than energy.

• Sadness: It is a low emotional state with wide-ranging depths from discontentment to intense grief. It is characterized by feelings of disadvantage, loss, despair, grief, helplessness, disappointment, and sorrow. This one is tricky since we give it many names, so it gets buried amid jargon that serves no purpose. An individual experiencing sadness may become quiet or lethargic, and withdraw from others. The extreme sadness takes the form of a serious illness like depression.

• Guilt: Guilt and shame even though seem to refer to the same feeling, there's a fundamental difference. Shame is how you define yourself whereas Guilt is how you define your action. Shame is a negative sense of who you are as a person. It has to do with how you feel about yourself, your self-esteem, and your identity. Guilt is how you feel about something you have done that goes against your ethics or beliefs. It's subjective since it comes down to the morality you stand by.

• Fear: The capacity to fear is part of human nature and hence we tend to presume that this is natural and is the way of life. It is an intensely unpleasant emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat. Fear causes physiological changes that may produce behavioral reactions such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat. It may occur in response to a certain stimulus occurring in the present, or in anticipation of a future threat perceived as a risk.

• Anger: Anger becomes the predominant feeling behaviorally, cognitively, and physiologically when a person makes the conscious choice to take action to immediately stop the threatening behavior of another outside force. There are 3 types of anger recognized by psychologists: 1. Hasty and Sudden anger is connected to the impulse for self-preservation. 2. Settled and Deliberate anger is a reaction to perceived deliberate harm or unfair treatment by others. 3. Dispositional anger is related more to character traits than to instincts or cognitions.

The purpose of outlining these low-frequency emotions is not to disregard them when they occur, but to fix them from the roots. Emotions run deep within who we are as a creature and dismissing them just because that's not a good one doesn't give us any maturity. It is important to truly take in the feelings that surge within you with the trigger- external or internal, and recognize that you feel that particular emotion. For most of these emotions, you react instantaneously without a second thought but that's where you apply the cognition- just before you respond. Recognizing, truly taking it in, experiencing the emotions, and then finding the rationale and root cause are the first few steps. Then truly letting go of the feeling and looking at the root cause objectively to either fix it or accept it based on how much control you have over that cause IS the way to deal with emotional overloads you get during circumstances that tend to gulp you entirely.

FURTHER READINGS:

1. The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown

2. Dare to Lead by Brene Brown

3. Daring Greatly by Brene Brown

4. The Code of the Extraordinary Mind by Vishen Lakhiani

5. Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Dr. Joe Dispenza.

6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anger

7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear