The Power of Emotion & the Hidden Emotional Realm

[Plenum]

Over the past year or so I've come to realize that many of our thoughts, which appear to have been sufficiently considered and balanced, have a hidden emotion at its root. In actuality, all thought has at its core a root emotional energy that can be understood symbolically/sacramentally. In Eastern thought we're told that we are not our emotions, and that is very true to an extent. But what I'm saying is that all thought and opinion is rooted in an emotional energy..that we are essentially emotion.

Emotions are also rooted in symbols or 'images'.

I've also found (for balancing purposes) that you can find a root image around which a particular type of emotion clusters around.

For eg, when I was exploring abandonment issues, I found that the deepest level I could go back to was when I was 3 years old, and my sister had just arrived in this world. I had the strong image of myself standing in the living room, quite a distance from my mother as she was breastfeeding my newly-arrived sister.

My mother was not rejecting me in favor of my sister, and yet, emotionally, that was how my child's mind responded to the experience. There was nothing of intent to the experience (perhaps my mother could have reassured me? I really don't know), but it was my own narrative and emotional constructing around the event which crystallized the sense of 'abandonment'.

I believe that all other experiences (or even perceived experiences) of abandonment clustered around this first real 'experience' of abandonment (or perceived abandonment).

This was like the seed moment, around which all other experiences of the same emotional vibration clustered around.

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I think it's also possible to explore other emotions (including more positive ones) using the same approach to experience and memory. Once you have gotten to the core, you can address the core, but if you only deal with the outer layers of the emotional onion, the deep sense of final resolution and integration won't be arrived at.

Emotions take you to deep and core places. And its usually buried in the past, in forgotten moments.