2009.12.26 The Wheel of Emotions

[Peregrinus]

I was wondering if you have read the book Power vs Force by Dr. David Hawkins? He discusses emotion states and has a scale of emotions that might be helpful to you.

I have not. I looked breifly at that scale. It may be of help.

This is something that has helped me in my own balancing work. I have read many of your posts and don't feel as though I am in anyway qualified to help you simply because I have also been very confused by emotions or my lack of such through my life.

You are as qualified as I am... to be sure. I think many are ruled by their emoions over their logical, so for me this is coming to an understanding of emotions, logically, so that I may come to feel them. Many of the emotions I listed I simply cannot invoke... yet.

But I will pass along things that help me along the way and continue to read your posts for tips from your perspective...I hope that we can be of assistance to each other as we muddle through this difficult yet fascinating landscape of our emotional body.

Please do dear sister, all you have said. I look forward to any insights you may have. Assistance, service to others...

Peregrinus, I spent about half an hour going down your list, filling out the opposites for each emotion. But then I gave up when I realized my mental dictionary just isn't big enough!

Thanks for trying. I didn't expect this to be easy, but perhaps easier for those that have felt these things.

Individual emotions are like fine strings. Although we may have a label for a few of them bundled together, many of the emotions on your list are subtle and delicate, and their opposites may not have names. Also, emotions flow together, so one emotion and its opposite could be defined many different ways. Likewise, one word could be used to describe a range of emotions.

Can you then put those mixes together? That would be a beginning.

Failing the list, I would simply suggest that the opposite of Fear is Love. (Anger being a mixture of Hatred and Fear.)

I changed that antithesis to relay that. Thanks.