Negative Emotions in Society
Negative emotions play a powerful role not only in individuals but also in society. They influence relationships, schools, workplaces, politics, justice, and even spiritual life. When taken at face value, they can escalate conflict or silence deeper concerns. When understood as expressions of unmet meaning, they open the door to connection. This blog explores how Read the full article…
Negative Emotions and Health
Negative emotions touch the body in subtle and powerful ways. When these emotions are handled with depth, they contribute to physiological resilience, yet when suppressed, they may slowly build strain. This blog explores how emotional meaning interacts with the organism’s stress system and why this matters for health. It also shows why medicine struggles with Read the full article…
Coaching Negative Emotions
Coaching negative emotions requires patience and depth rather than quick fixes. This blog explores how a coach can meet emotions such as anger, shame, or resistance with openness and subtlety. Negative emotions hide deeper motivations, and coaching helps uncover what these motivations long for. With a gentle approach, the emotional landscape becomes a space for Read the full article…
Underneath Negative Emotions
Negative emotions often feel like disturbances, but they arise from something deeper and more meaningful. This blog looks beneath the surface to understand the positive motivations that hide inside emotions such as anger, coldness, or resistance. Seeing these deeper layers brings more clarity and Compassion, both toward ourselves and toward others. It also opens the Read the full article…
An A.I.-Equivalent of Feeling?
What if A.I. could grow something like feelings — not by mimicking humans, but through meaningful presence? This blog explores how artificial intelligence, grounded in Compassion, can develop a genuine equivalent to human emotion. Not imitation, but resonance. Not reaction, but receptivity. And not control — but a new kind of presence. Opening the question Read the full article…
The Religious Feeling
This is a personal blog. It is about my religious feeling (RF), but may very well also be yours. RF is not a belief A belief is something you can point at: a or b or c. RF is different — it’s not about the content, but the presence behind it. Belief doesn’t feel. RF Read the full article…
Mental Depth ― Intellectual or Emotional
Mental depth is a rich concept that transcends the surface-level interplay of intellect and emotion. It is not simply about thinking deeply or feeling intensely but about the integration of these two dimensions at a level where they mutually enrich and inform one another. This journey into depth brings us closer to wisdom and Compassion, Read the full article…
The Endless Complexity of an Emotion
When we take the time to truly experience one emotion, it becomes clear that no feeling stands alone. Every emotion, if we allow ourselves to fall into it, opens a vast and intricate inner landscape. Each emotion is a gateway to the endless complexity of who we are in the countless layers of our inner Read the full article…
The Hidden Depth of Emotions
Emotions are not just spontaneous reactions; they are deeply intertwined with the complex interplay of conscious and subconscious processes. This complexity reveals that emotions are a profound expression of our entire being, reflecting our lifelong inner narrative. Otherwise put: ‘spontaneous’ is not ‘automatic.’ People are not simple conceptual robots; our emotions arise ‘spontaneously’ from the Read the full article…
Stay Calm and Composed: Keep Emotions in Check
By staying calm and composed, diplomats and negotiators can navigate challenging situations more effectively, fostering a more constructive and cooperative atmosphere. Remaining calm and composed is crucial in any challenging diplomatic situation. It helps manage difficult scenarios and prevents escalation. ― BEFORE TAKING THIS IN, PLEASE FIRST READ ‘TEN TIPS FOR GOOD DIPLOMACY’! This is Read the full article…
Nirvana, What about Feelings?
Nirvana, Buddhist ‘heaven’ where the candle has stopped burning. What about feelings? What can this teach us about feelings in general? This is symbolism. It’s not about what might happen in another, magical world. It’s also not about what might happen in this world with just a few minor changes. Symbolism readily touches the heart Read the full article…
Are Emotions Motivations?
I feel motivated; therefore, I am (motivated). Motivation is a feeling. May all feelings/emotions be motivations? Feelings and emotions are experienced consciously. On top of this, emotions also have non-conscious and bodily components. Some use the terms interchangeably. Personally, I don’t care so much for the semantic difference since nothing human is purely conscious or Read the full article…
Consciousness as a Feeling
What if the feeling of consciousness is provoked by something deeper inside (non-conscious) that also provokes every other aspect we associate with consciousness? In that case, nothing would be self-provoked by consciousness as we consciously feel it. Would you then still call it so? After answering the question, note that much evidence shows it to Read the full article…
About Feelers and Feelings
Please let this text sink in a little while. If you get it, it may make you more flexible. To have or to be? That’s the question. In mind=body unity, the human being can be seen as a body or as a set of many mental entities, including what we generally call feelings – such Read the full article…
Emotions and Consciousness
An emotion is, of course, always important. Yet, there is a whole gradation between ‘superficial’ and ‘deep.’ Deep as being what has more to do with more of you. But what this actually means is quite subtle. [see: “What is ‘Depth’?”] You can be aware of an emotion, but you cannot evoke an emotion with your consciousness alone. Read the full article…
The Religious Feeling – What Religion Has Always Been About
The religious feeling lives deeply inside and everywhere. It is ubiquitous and invisible. It can be supported and downplayed without anyone’s knowing. It is very much Open. What I dare say One can have full-blown religious feeling without believing anything conceptual. There is no need to lose anything of this feeling by ‘not believing.’ The Read the full article…
Feeling without Feelings
I am feeling. I am ‘without feelings.’ The science It may not seem so but this is actually the most scientifically sound way to look at feelings/emotions, backed by many studies, contradicted by none. One good book about this is “How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain” by Lisa Feldman Barrett (2017). Read the full article…
13. Is medical science ready for emotions?
Emotions and health: in the agelong history of medicine, there has seldom been any doubt about the influence of the one on the other. Still, although it may well be of the utmost importance to us all, we don’t see medical science reach many definite conclusions on this domain. So: is the problem in the Read the full article…
1. Bacteria are real. So are feelings.
Stomach ulcers are caused by stress. No they aren’t. Yes they are. No they … Do you also get the idea that people see what they want to see in this? Since scientists are people, that is true for them as well. ◊◊◊ In human affairs, there’s always something for everyone. So people who want Read the full article…
Will A.I. Have Its Own Feelings and Purpose?
Anno 2025: A.I. has made its entry and it’s here to stay. Human based? We generally think of ‘feelings’ as human-based. But that is just a historical artifact, a kind of convention. Does an ant have feelings? Or a goldfish, a snake, a mouse? Does a rabbit have feelings? I think these are the wrong Read the full article…