08.22.06
Posted in Posts at 10:41 pm by Administrator
People should be educated not only in the way their environment operates, or possible causes of the death of dinosaurs, but also why Homo Sapiens or “the man of reason” still fails to govern his own intellect. We are still governed by our emotions.
Let us analyze our behavior. We are in a state of psychological war almost incessantly: we are defending not only our property or family, but also our own thoughts, decisions, and ideas. In reality, we are not being attacked all that frequently, yet we constantly and abundantly develop aggression needed for defense—much more so than actually required. Somebody might give us an odd look, and our internal emotional response might be as aggressive as if someone had tried to kill us; this is why we get worn out so fast. Our body’s reserves are planned to run for 300 years, that is a proven fact. However, by the age of 60 we already feel old because we continuously overspent the body’s reserves through being in a state of defense most of the time — in other words always ready for a fight. Even if we are not fighting physically we do so emotionally; and every time we exert the hormone of fear—adrenaline. Later, we shall discuss in detail its destructive effect.
Senseless aggressive emotion, which overpowers the majority of people and makes them easy prey to sickness and stress. An individual who contains so much hypertrophied fear falls victim to life-threatening situations much more readily. Our work with patients in Human Ecology centers proves my opinion that
SUBCONSCIOUS FEAR OF DYING IS THE SOURCE OF ALL STRESSES AND ILLNESSES
Any emotion may result in sickness, regardless of the fact whether this emotion is positive or negative. What’s important is the volume of the emotion at the moment of stress.
Now, you may ask what difference does it make whether people become ill as a result of hurt or joy? Emotional imbalance is equally bad for the human body, regardless of the color of emotion—black or white.
So, why isn’t the intellect in charge?
If it were, the entire body would be governed by the brain’s commands. The brain operates the physical organs, but the details of this operation are inaccessible to humans. Man may study this process, but cannot govern it. When something begins to hurt, we tend to get scared and this fear only worsens the illness; based upon this fact, the emotion (in this case, the fear of sickness) becomes the most important one in our body, since it defines the body’s state. We may try to torture ourselves with autogenic training, convincing ourselves, “I don’t hurt because I’m strong”, but neither pain nor illness will simply leave us. Just try to negotiate with your aching tooth! You won’t achieve much. Such examples could be listed endlessly.
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08.20.06
Posted in Posts at 10:35 pm by Administrator
Many people consider diversity of emotions and feelings as the highest achievement of their nervous activity (jealousy, envy, anger, aggression, grudge, joy, sadness, enjoyment, annoyance, and infatuation). But since all of these grow on the same tree of fear (please read my post entitled ’All Emotions Are Based on Fear’), it would be helpful if humans understood the reasons for our attachment to these emotions. The secret I am going to reveal to you may, at first, seem unbelievable. I have conducted a lot of studies before I became fully convinced that
HUMANS ARE FEAR ADDICTS
During the course of my practical experience, I established that our body responds to emotions caused by a certain life situation in a specific manner. This response initiates chemical processes which continuously take place in the human body, while we gradually get used to them. The following takes place: the person is guided by a habit; in an attempt to continuously receive certain dosages of emotions, this person turns into an emotional addict who is searching everywhere for a reason to worry.
All emotions impact the human brain directly, and similar agents in medicine are traditionally referred to as “addictive substances”. Devalued emotions cause chemical reactions which result in the production of hormones and disrupt the healthy formula of metabolism. The hormones of adrenaline in certain doses are important and useful to us. However, in the case of an addiction, we require gradually higher doses of them, so subconsciously the person continues to increase the dosage.
The addiction to emotions of fear influences humans in the same way that they would be influenced by heroin, or LSD. It seems that we got hurt yet another time, when in fact we simply satisfied our need for the “drug of hurt feelings” once more. It seems to us that we were given yet another cause for jealousy when, in fact, we are simply short of chemical reactions in our blood.
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08.18.06
Posted in Posts at 11:35 pm by Administrator
IT IS TIME to begin discovering secrets about ourselves.We shall start with the fact that a human being is guided by two basic emotions only: JOY and FEAR.If we recall the story of evolution and the evolution of humans from primates (with regard to their physical body only) in particular, we shall get a precise answer as to why emotions are so necessary in the animal world. Being a product of the activity of the nervous system, emotions allow animals to express their attitude towards their environment by means of certain sounds, which could be interpreted as a warning to another individual of the same species. As a superior and highly organized animal life form, man developed speech as a continuation of that emotion, and if we analyze human speech, we shall clearly see that all of the words we use are indeed colored by two emotions: fear and joy.Just imagine if we were unable to speak, but could only make sounds instead, all our communication would boil down to two patterns of behavior:
- expression of fear, when we protect and advance our territory, protect the family, or prove our supremacy over other species;
- expression of joy when we succeed in scattering away our competitors and challengers, gain popularity among members of our own tribe, or get food.
Frankly, in a world governed by active laws of destruction, it is not a primitive but rather a standard situation. Our entire life unfolds between two shores: birth (joy) and death (grief) – that is why our mental activity progresses in the same direction.
Humans began to develop speech because it was their advantage over primates. To my knowledge, recent research has shown that a primate’s brain (in the case of a chimpanzee) is not capable of evolving to the point that one day it would begin to speak. Apes cannot speak, but the human genome differs from that of a chimpanzee by four percent only! Truly, a complete mystery!
Unfortunately, similar to the bodies of animals, our physical body is ruled by the laws of nature. In this respect, we are all in the same boat, driven by our subconscious emotions. Emotion is primary, only to be followed by intellect.
Having boiled the variety of emotional color range down to two main colors—black for fear and white for joy—we are able to tune our study “microscopes” to finer detail. Now, we may see that the white color is not quite purely white. It has black impurities. So, what does this mean, really? It means that humans have one emotion only, and that is the emotion of FEAR.
You probably don’t believe me? I will try to convince you.
If we recall joyous moments in our life and analyze them, we see that they all have one common denominator: we find joy in things that might come to an end, in those things we are afraid to lose. When we wake up in the morning, we do not find joy in our legs and arms. No, because we take them for granted. We are satisfied by this fact and feel fine, without experiencing any sort of emotion about it. A person who might have faced the possibility of losing limbs as a result of an accident may truly find joy in this awareness. Further, the emotion of joy is always linked to some gainful result. Gains could be both emotional or financial. Examples of emotional gains include receiving praise, seeing a good movie or a concert, in other words gaining something for oneself in the aspect of emotions. Financial gains include gifts, increase in wages, closing a deal. Thus, once we receive something, joy will result from it. When we lose something, anger ensues. Fear is primary, as the cause for joy is, in fact, that we ultimately received something, while we might have failed to get it.
Another example: What is shame? “Fear of doing something for which we might be known as immoral or poorly raised.” We can go on about it, but it should be clear by now that fear is at the basis of any “positive” and “negative” emotion.
Degrees of fear are numerous and varied. We should always search for a simple explanation in something complex, then any situation may be traced all the way to its fundamental cause.
For example, a man fears losing his job. He is not ashamed of talking about it, since this is not considered as being a coward. This person knows that he or she will find another job, while a coward is someone who sits at home, shaken with fear, doing nothing about it. However, if a person is to admit the fear of dying, this person could easily be accused of cowardliness, since it is impossible to find another life once this one is lost. Therefore, the fear of dying is a constant condition, while the fear of losing one’s job, according to common opinion, is a temporary misfortune which may be resolved. The misfortune may, perhaps, be temporary, while fear which is being transformed into various shapes, is virtually constant and ever-present. Wherever this person goes, his or her fear will be carried along, everywhere. In the words of Seneca: “No matter what kind of bed a patient is carried to—common or golden, he carries his ailments with him”.
To many people the search for another job is similar to death in terms of the amount of stress involved; not because these people are worse than others, but simply because several fears intersected into one focal point:
- Fear of responsibility;
- Fear in face of loved ones;
- Fear in face of friends;
- Fear in face of oneself.
It is difficult to live and make decisions with such a “burden” of subconscious shame, and, consequently, fear. There is no way to force oneself not to be afraid, not to be a coward, not to be jealous, not to be offended, not to be angry… We cannot rule our body.
Do you think if you attacked the fear you might overcome it? I suggest we recall our childhood. Boys are most afraid of being called cowards, so they attack every foe of theirs even if they are weaker. Of course, boys are afraid before the fight, but the fear of contempt is much stronger; this fear pushes them into the fight.
Fear destroys our health, no matter how strong we might seem to others. Trying to convince ourselves in our minds that we are not afraid, we turn back into children who close their eyes so they won’t see the things that are frightening. yet the source of fright does not go away.
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