Why Do We Have Emotions?
By Sarah Biermann
Emotions are a major part of the Earth Game. We wanted to experience duality, to see what it was like to be separate, limited, and have physical bodies. We wanted to experience all the juicy, human possibilities; to feel emotions, taste food, sing a song, ride a horse, pet a cat, and make love.
The problem is that we identify ourselves as being our emotions. We say, "I am sad" or "I am frustrated". NOT TRUE! You are an Infinite Being who is feeling an emotion. There is a belief that if you have an emotion you become that emotion. If you feel shame it means that there really is something wrong with you at a core level. There's an unconscious belief that if we feel an emotion then it makes it real, and it will never go away. Actually, the opposite is true, but we aren't taught that.
We're at the end of the Earth Game of duality now. It is time to release our judgments of what is good or bad and embrace the whole. It isn't about only having the positive emotions and positive thoughts in order to create a positive reality. It's not set up that way. In order to fully experience joy, love and excitement, you must be willing to equally fully experience sadness, anger and hopelessness. That's how the Game was created.
The transition we are going through now is to be willing to feel all the emotions fully while at the same time maintaining your awareness of self as the Infinite Being playing the Earth Game. We're remembering our multi-dimensionality.
In her book Initiation, Elisabeth Haich wrote about her experiences as a Priestess in Ancient Egypt and her initiation process. They deliberately brought up strong emotions (positive and negative). Ptahhotep is the Priest who taught her. He explained emotions to her.
"My dear child," he begins, "initiation, as I have already explained to you, means to become conscious on the highest level, the divine plane. To be able to do this requires long physical training and spiritual preparation. One first must strengthen the nerves to enable them to bear these high vibrations without harm, without death.
To become conscious on a given plane means to conduct the vibrations characteristic of this plane into the nerves and through the nerves into the body. From the time a body is born, that is, from the time a 'self' dwells in it, the body develops a power of resistance corresponding to the average degree of consciousness of the spirit dwelling in it.
The degree of consciousness of a living creature fluctuates up and down, depending on its emotional condition, within the limits of an octave of vibrations. These fluctuations, however, must not exceed the limits of elasticity of the nerves; for if they do, injuries and sicknesses of a more or less serious nature occur, even death. The vibration belonging to a creative vital energy is absolutely lethal for creatures whose consciousness has not yet reached this level.
The great initiation means consciously experiencing the vital energy and creative vibrations of eternal being, experiencing these vibrations on every plane of development and in their original frequency, without transformation, and simultaneously conducting these vibrations into the nerves and the body."
They began by intentionally producing emotional states by using dream pictures.
Once that was mastered they had to experience different emotional states on command, without dream pictures, going from the lowest to the highest.
Then they practiced fast changeovers from one emotional state to another.
The next step was to experience opposite emotional states, one after the other, with no time lost for transition, shifting from deep sadness to the highest hilarity, or from fear to self-assured courage.
"People believe that there always has to be a reason for their being joyous or happy. Through the exercises with dream pictures we first imagine we have a reason for being in one mood or another. Thus we learn to control the reasons themselves! As we do not actually have a reason, however, we have to imagine one.
Then comes the next step of experiencing an emotional state by itself, without a reason. After long practice, we discover we have always imagined we had a reason form being 'sad' or 'joyous', 'depressed' or 'exuberant' etc. Through these exercises we thus become convinced that events and occurrences in our lives must not have any effect on us. We discover that every state of consciousness arises — and can only arise — within ourselves. The same event can provoke one person to laughter and another to tears, while a third remains completely indifferent; all because each is merely projecting outwardly his own inward attitude, and it is only the inner attitude which provokes our response, not the external events themselves."
An event occurs and emotion is felt. The mind creates a meaning based on past experiences. A woman greets her husband when he returns home from work. He says, "I don't want to talk right now," and walks away. Her empathic system feels his anger. Then her mind creates a meaning; perhaps she thinks, "He's mad at me. What did I do to cause that? Was it because I was too tired to have sex last night? He said he understood but maybe he is really angry." This brings up a past experience when her lover had sex with her best friend and all the fear, shame and anger she felt about that. Not to mention that it ended her relationship.
This can happen in just a few moments.
Now the strategies kick in. These are different from person to person and could include:
- Telling herself that she's being silly (over reacting) and distracting herself with something else.
- Seeking her spouse and trying to get him to talk with her (most likely about something else, or without really addressing her feelings honestly).
- Creating a plan to "win him back", perhaps a special meal or deciding that she must have sex tonight, regardless of how she feels (adding resentment to the mix).
All of this is made up. Her mind created a meaning that may have nothing to do with what's really happening. Every event is basically neutral. Different people with react in different ways to the same situation or event. And at different times in your life you will react differently to the same situation. Think about driving in traffic. Sometimes you don't mind and other times it drives you nuts.
- Suppress/Deny: Trying to hide the emotion from yourself.
- Withholding: You are aware of the emotion but choose not to express it.
- Unconscious Expression: Dumping on another or blaming another.
- Conscious Experiencing/Expressing: Self-responsible and clear expression. Being willing to fully feel the emotion.
Emotions trigger thoughts, which trigger more emotions etc. The core of this cycle is the emotion. Infants experience emotions long before they have any language to form thoughts. When an emotion is felt it triggers the corresponding thoughts that triggers more emotions etc. The problem is that most of the time the original emotion that started this cascade of misery was probably not yours!
When a person suppresses an emotion that emotion is amplified out into the field. Because most people are constantly suppressing their emotions, our environment is packed. We're swimming in a sea of unexpressed emotion! And you are the empathic sponge that soaks it all up. (This is part of the reason it feels so good to be in nature, away from people.)
Generally, people do not suppress positive emotions, so what is stored are negative emotions. Your system (mental, physical, emotional and spiritual) will seek out or create experiences that will allow you to discharge (experience) suppressed emotions. Something will happen that triggers one of these emotions, then your stored emotions are brought up to be cleared. So you will continue to create situations that "cause" you to feel the suppressed emotions. It is the unwillingness to experience these emotions, and so the continued suppression of them that keeps you stuck. As long as these emotions are stuck in your systems, you will continue to experience situations that trigger them. This is why you keep dating the same kind of person or are repeated treated "badly" by others.
The only way to get free from this emotional prison is to experience the emotions! And you must stay conscious of what is happening around and within you. Pay attention!
The first step is to recognize when emotion is present either within you or another.
1) What is the level of intensity between 1 and 10?
2) What is/are the emotion(s)?
You can refer to this list if you are not sure. Rather than saying, "I am angry" say, "I feel anger". This simple change in how you language helps you to keep your center. Your inner child relates to simple or basic feeling words.
Anger
Sadness
Grief
Fear
Shame
Guilt
Hopelessness
Helplessness
Powerlessness
3) What meaning has your mind applied? What dialog/thoughts go with the emotion(s)? Keep in mind that this is not necessarily true.
4) Where do you feel this in your body? Feel into that place and breathe. Really go into it, knowing that the emotional content is on it's way out. Shake, cry, growl, moan or pound a pillow, whatever works to move the energy.
With regular practice you will find that it gets easier to stay consciously aware when a lot of emotions (yours or another's) are flowing. You will be able to maintain your center no matter what is happening. Also, as you empty your personal storage of emotions, you will stop attracting situations to trigger negative emotions. And you will have much more clarity about what others are feeling and what motivates their actions.
Your system will be able to flow more vital energy and you will flow through life, enjoying the Game.
About Sarah Biermann
Sarah Biermann is an internationally renowned Intuitive Healer, Channel, and the founder of ImagiCreation. Clairvoyant and highly empathic, she works directly with the language of the unconscious mind. Able to clear and transform limiting systems, implants, past life material and much more, she can be reached at:
sarah@limitless-one.com or by phone at: 415-672-1279
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