{"id":7703,"date":"2021-08-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=7703"},"modified":"2023-05-10T16:46:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T16:46:14","slug":"emotions-and-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/cognitive-insights\/emotions-and-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"Emotions and Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An emotion is, of course, always important. Yet, there is a whole gradation between \u2018superficial\u2019 and \u2018deep.\u2019 Deep as being what has more to do with more of you.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

But what this actually means is quite subtle. [see: \u201cWhat is \u2018Depth\u2019?<\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can be aware of an emotion,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

but you cannot evoke an emotion with your consciousness alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can imagine a situation in which a certain feeling appears. In other words: you use autosuggestion (such as in the form of visualization), and your deeper self will react. That\u2019s what we do all day long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s what we somehow do each time <\/em>we feel an emotion. Autosuggestion is something of this world, not of another one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes quite a few emotions may arise during an AURELIS session.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s OK as part of the whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it is not indispensable, and it is not necessary in order to speak of a \u2018good session.\u2019 In general, it does not increase the ultimate impact of a session unless the purpose of the session revolves around the emotions themselves. So when emotions come up, let them come \u2015 and pass again. Appreciate them with profound attention as you can appreciate also other things that come from deep within yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deep attention makes it real.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is this attention that ultimately determines the effect of emotions during an AURELIS session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purely conscious handling of emotions turns emotions into shadows and food for \u2018ego.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deep, \u2018open\u2019 attention reveals an additional dimension that brings everything to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thoughts, feelings.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes it is assumed that \u2018thoughts\u2019 are connected with consciousness (or: with what consciousness is <\/em>) and feelings\/emotions with the non-conscious, the \u2018deeper layers.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actually, this is clearly wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both thoughts and feelings\/emotions live in a <\/strong>total person<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is true that what we call \u2018emotion\u2019 and, as such, consciously perceive in ourselves has more non-conscious qualities. Apparently, the transition between deeper self and consciousness has a less crystallizing influence on emotions than on thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps this is related to the fact that emotions, whether we like them or not, ultimately influence \u2013 or overlap even more with \u2013 what motivates us or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Men and women<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from all cultural specificities, I don\u2019t think that men are less \u2018emotional\u2019 than women. They may be <\/em>emotionally in a different way<\/em>, or they may deal with their emotions in another way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building on Jung\u2019s theories of animus and anima, men and women would be better able to show each other\u2019s non-conscious to each other. In other words, some of the attraction between sexes can arise from the attraction between a person and his\/her own deeper self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just look at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The urge for unification and growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creation of new life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Libido.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eros.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be a shame to reduce eroticism to a mere focus on the \u2018sexual act\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and the latter to some hormones and the depth of an iron pick. And yet, this is often the case. Nowadays, there is even a tendency to interpret Darwinism in such a way that it comes down to that.  For many people, this brings a lot of suffering and not being able to accomplish oneself. With some attention for this problem, you will encounter it in coaching again and again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People are so much richer than that, eroticism so much deeper and more beautiful.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.\u201d (Judy Garland)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Primal emotion?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An interesting theory says that, specifically, all types of emotions start the same somewhere in the brain, as a kind of undifferentiated \u2018primal emotion.\u2019 It would then be all kinds of additional interpretations of a person about himself, which make that the primal emotion will eventually (this is: a few microseconds later) arise as fear or as anger or rather as a positive emotion, such as a feeling of challenge or of \u2018being alive.\u2019 It seems unlikely that this is entirely correct, but to a certain extent, it is true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interpretations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also means, and this is very important, that interpretations that can include both cognitive and emotional aspects help determine emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, these interpretations can undoubtedly be influenced. Not so much at the moment, of course \u2013 since it all happens too fast \u2013 but in advance.  So when you hear someone say: \u201cMy emotions are going to get away with me,\u201d then that may be correct at that moment itself<\/em>, but it does not mean that this person is someone who will never be able to do something about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is possible to work on it in advance (if that is someone\u2019s intention).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case, autosuggestion (communication with the non-conscious, you know) is also an excellent way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See the metaphor of the mikado chopsticks. Emotions that go crisscrossed in all directions in a wild manner (\u2018getting away with me\u2019) may align a bit more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 As repeatedly said: if you do this completely non-aggressively, you will also become more yourself. You can already feel this in the phrase \u201cgetting away with me.\u201d So \u2018they\u2019 with \u2018me,\u2019 because they are not me. The crisscrossed emotions are less myself than I would like them to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A different view on other things<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my opinion, the foregoing readily gives a different view upon homosexuality, for example. This new view is more accepting from the outside and more flexible from the inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, it is always important to pay attention: what am \u2018I\u2019 and what am \u2018I\u2019 not. It is not the intention to turn into who one is not, perhaps least of all on an emotional level. I think it is only natural that people should always be wary of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mind-medication<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The previous is also a sensitive point in the field of antidepressants and antipsychotics, which artificially aim to drastically alter a person\u2019s feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was central to the movement of antipsychiatry, which, especially a few decades ago, also had fervent supporters among psychiatrists themselves (Foudraine, Foucault, Szasz, Laing,\u2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowadays, the steamroller of biological psychiatry (three times medication!) has made short shrift of this. Apparently, anything is allowed as long as it generates money and can be packaged in a disease model, rightly or wrongly.<\/p>\n

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