emotions Archives - Page 7 of 17

Tag: emotions

Theme: Politics
control your flow
action, emotions, paradox, power
October 22, 2023
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1–2 minutes
When you “go with the flow,” you abdicate control to access emotions to release stress.
The problem is we cannot control our moods: they pass through us, and when safeguards are unleashed, some toxic rage or wallowing despair bubbles up, causing self-damaging behavior.
Yet, we want to be free, lively, and spontaneous, not in a gray, restrictive, robotic life. The paradox is needing control to allow freedom.
Consider going with the flow, similar to surfing or painting: a masterfully developed skill that does not let go as much as channel attentive excitement into expressive action.
Theme: Self
fearless humans
emotions, growth, society, Truth
October 15, 2023
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1–2 minutes
A fearless person is a true human, because they are truly free.
Without fear, there are no constraints: a true human is a monster.
Theme: Self
reciprocity fails
emotions, happiness, insecurity, relationships
October 13, 2023
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1–2 minutes
Reciprocal treatment is why people-pleasing fails. To rely on another person for a momentary emotion (pleasure) is to externalize the internal.
Beyond that, you already have happiness any moment you choose to accept it: giving it away and expecting it to be returned without a loss is idiocy.
Theme: Self
making our own hell
emotions, learning, psychology, self-sabotage
October 10, 2023
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1–2 minutes
We often catastrophize a situation into being. There is no problem, just our feelings, which we elevate into a dramatic reaction.
There is an option to approach your perceived problem constructively, but intense emotion clouds and obscures.
This implies that hell is to be trapped in your feelings, unable to see beyond yourself, merely reacting with more emotion.
Theme: Self
aversion to yourself
desire, emotions, escape, psychology
September 22, 2023
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1–2 minutes
Often, we avoid other people, not wanting to encounter them and the proceeding interactions.
We claim to want to avoid them for a myriad of reasons, but this is in large part because others are a mirror: when you have an aversion to yourself, you avoid those who accurately reflect you.
Theme: Self
Keep joy for yourself (social media)
emotions, happiness, self-awareness, social media
September 19, 2023
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1–2 minutes
Pleasures do not need to be advertised.
We tend to think what we like is who we are: we identify with our joy.
However, to broadcast your joy is to move the internal to the external, from which the external representation parasitizes your glee: the outer "image of identity" affects your actions (amplifies) by feeding upon your emotion for social reification.
In an odd contradiction, the external image of you is fixed (flat, unidimensional) yet must continually expand. Once enough of your joy has been extracted into the proxy "image of identity" you are reduced to joyless reactive motion where you now mirror your social image, it does not reflect you.
In social media, this is when your passion is converted to content, your content then drives your action, which you are no longer passionate about, but you must simulate joy to maintain identity.
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Theme: Self
The new must come slowly
anger, art, change, emotions
September 3, 2023
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1–2 minutes
We constantly seek novelty, but we hate the new.
We will claim to want new things, but only if they are slightly new, marginally better, and often with little impact on our lives.
Anything genuinely new is disruptive. We must rethink our lives and how we deal with the world.
Thus, even if it is an excellent change, such as Jesus coming to earth or marvelous life-and-labor-saving machines freeing us from work, we will hate those changes because they are too new, require too much identity, and relinquish too much agency.
Newness must come about slowly.
Theme: Growth
happiness comes from reality
attention, emotions, learning, vision
August 31, 2023
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1–2 minutes
You can try to be happy by keeping your head in the sand. That is, to live in escapism, often taking the form of idealism.
However, reality will slap you on the ass, and once again your happiness will be stolen from you.
The other approach is clear eyed bravery: to see reality as it is, or at least as much as you can understand. This is not being a cynical realist; it is seeing through your own illusions and delusions.
Once you can see through yourself, you can see through anybody – and not being tricked, you can love them; then you will never not be happy.
Theme: Self
Imposter syndrome
emotions, identity, insecurity, trust
August 23, 2023
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1–2 minutes
The imposter is overly confident, while a successful entrepreneur who is challenging them self is always afraid.
The fear is because they are overcoming resistance, encountering uncharted territory.
Once they are not plagued with some doubts they are not pushing them self. At that point, they are either not invested (wasting their time) or they are literally a “confidence man” in the middle of a con.
Theme: Self
Our monsters bring us onboard
emotions, fear, learning, stress
August 22, 2023
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1–2 minutes
“The monsters we create welcome us aboard.”
Mark Downham
Our fantasies we provoke to frighten not only become transformatively terrible, but they take us further into terror. They perform the inverse of scaring us away: they teach us to become comfortable with the monstrous, if not to be monstrous ourselves.
The revelation is our familiarity makes our intimates, the creator lavishing attentions thrills in the creative distress.