10-15-2011, 09:56 AM
(10-14-2011, 08:48 PM)zenmaster Wrote:(10-14-2011, 12:32 PM)Gemini Wolf Wrote: It's one way of using contrast to integrate emotions through metaphor.But that's sort of like saying someone removes the cause of physical pain by integrating yelling or wincing.
One doesn't integrate emotions. An emotion is an unconscious reaction to some aspect of self that had not been integrated (acknowledged and accepted). You could call this a 'misunderstanding', an 'imbalance', a 'blockage', etc. The emotion is a response to a mind pattern (such as a complex) which has been engaged by some stimulus which brought awareness close to it. What is being integrated is how one views that which is reinforcing the distortion. When the distortion being held on to is seen as being unnecessary, the pattern is balanced and becomes part of usable consciousness. That is the form of integration.
Is your view that the unconscious is causing unbalance?
Are you suggesting that expressing emotion is unwanted?
Are you saying that emotion is a mind complex and an unconscious reaction?
Do you think expressing emotion is an indication Of imbalance or of a balancing act itself?
I've had emotional reactions, and then I've had mental thoughts about emotions. The two appear very different to me.