Healthy Emotions

[Anders Lindman]

We know what bodily health is. When your hands, for example, feel nice and alive, then you automatically know that they are healthy. If, on the other hand, there is pain in your hands, or when your hands feel numb, you know that that is a lack of physical health.

The same thing applies to emotions as for physical health. You know when your emotions are healthy, because just like your hands, they feel nice and alive when healthy.

The problem is that the human thinking mind has not yet learned this simple fact. The thinking mind is confused about what is emotional health. This confusion makes the thinking mind to believe that chronic negative emotions are healthy, or at least needed.

Just like pain, emotional suffering is needed to indicate something that needs to be healed. In that sense, negative emotions are very valuable. The problem however is that the thinking mind continues to live with negative emotions since it doesn't understand that a healing is needed.

[Anders Lindman]

It's easy to recognize when emotions are unhealthy, because like physical illness causing suffering, emotional illness causes suffering.

Healing illness is no simple matter. Even when the body heals itself, such as healing a cut in the skin, it's an extraordinary complex process. Emotional healing is possibly even more complex than physical healing. When we have a cut in the skin, it is obvious what the illness is since the cause of the illness and the illness itself are directly related.

In emotional healing, the first thing to do, is to understand the cause of the illness. In physical healing causes of illnesses span all the way from those with directly obvious causes, such as a broken bone, to very complex forms of illness like cancer and allergies where the causes are far from obvious.

The causes of emotional illness are always extremely complicated. Dealing with emotional illnesses on their own level is a messy business that includes psychoanalysis, drugs and other forms of traditional or complementary forms of medicine. These methods cannot heal emotional illness since they do not treat the whole problem.

The root of the problem of emotional illness is pathological thinking, which is not only about mental illness, but also the ordinary way of thinking itself. In humans today, it is the whole process of thinking that is pathological and not just certain forms of thinking.

[Anders Lindman]

What, then, is the pathology of the thinking mind? We often hear things like "You are going to make it", "I am going to make it" and "We are going to make it". Make what? Make fools of ourselves?

The problem is that the thinking mind is suffering from chronophobia. Deep down in the subconscious recesses of our minds is a firm and very old belief that: "I'm not going to make it". This belief is one of the parts of the human sexual drive: "If I'm not going to make it, then maybe my children will". This utterly immature view of life is what creates perpetual dysfunction in the thinking mind.

Fear is related to destruction, to regression, and to the belief that "you are not going to make it".

The thinking mind deals with certainties and the more things are lasting, the more they are appreciated by the thinking mind. The human body is not going to last, thinks the thinking mind. Can you sir, and you mam, see the conflict related to that kind of deeply held belief?

[Anders Lindman]

Changing the way we think, will change our emotions which in turn will create physical changes in the body. There are also relations in the other direction: from the physical body, to emotions and to the thinking mind; but it is the thinking mind that is the governor over the whole body/emotion/mind system.

The conscious mind is the governor, but only when it has the power, and it can only have power over emotions and the physical body when the subconscious mind is working in alignment with the conscious mind.

The Matrix-like trap that causes the pathology in the thinking mind has to be understood. This is a bit tricky since it's difficult for the thinking mind to understand its own behaviour, just as it is difficult for the eye to see itself, the tongue to taste itself, and for the knife to cut itself.

How to heal pathological thinking? Even if it's very difficult, I think it can be done. The conscious/thinking mind is the governor, but we are more than just the intellect. We are also aware of our thinking. This self-awareness is more than just the process of thinking itself.

The thinking mind must be healed, but not abandoned. It's hardly any progress to lose the ability to think and devolve back into a vegetable. Instead the thinking mind must be improved, not neglected.

Confusion is a good tool for healing the conscious mind. Not the state of being confused, but the state of being confused while at the same time be very aware of that confusion. The part of us that is aware of the confusion is itself not confused.

Suggested practice for emotional healing: First let your thinking mind be confused while at the same time having control over the confusion; keeping the confusion on a leash so to speak. Then add awareness of your emotions to the controlled confusion. And then let the confusion and your emotions operate on each other as a form of self-healing.

[Anders Lindman]

Some people talk about positive thinking. Others talk about acceptance of the moment. These techniques are Illuminati traps leading you away from becoming aware of your own emotions.

The Illuminati agenda includes moving away people's awareness of their own emotions into thinking. As long as you are trapped in your thinking mind, you remain easy to manipulate. That's why you see mainstream media continue to talk about health on the mental level and on the physical bodily level, which are both important, but the knowledge about the emotional level will be kept away from the people.

We need to do something about that. One technique you can use to take the power back of your own emotions is positive feeling. That's the same thing as positive thinking, but instead of remaining trapped in the thinking mind, positive feeling is about feeling positive emotions, not about thinking positive thoughts.

[Anders Lindman]

Practicing positive feeling can be done in two steps. The first step is to learn how to observe your thinking. This is simple in theory but can in practice often require a great deal of awareness. When you are aware of your thoughts, then the next step is to remain in that state of mind and then directly observe how you feel. At first a passive but direct observation of how you feel. Direct observation here means that the observation does not go via thinking. The observation is not the ordinary way of thinking about your feelings. From the passive direct observation of how you actually feel right now, move into an active form of observation, which means that you now not only are observing how you feel but also begin to operate on the field of your emotions to remove negativity such as blocks, numbness, emotional pain, irritation, boredom, sadness and other forms of dysfunctional emotions. Be careful not to slip into thinking, because the practice operates from an awareness above thinking. You can always slip back into thinking at any time you want, but for the practice to work you need to stay in a state where you are aware of your thoughts rather than being in them.

[Anders Lindman]

The ordinary view about who you are - promoted by the Illuminati - and mindlessly dished around by parents and school teachers is that you are your thoughts and that you have emotions. Well, think again. :D

[rowan22]

Interesting post Anders I enjoyed it. This is pretty much how I relate to the reality of being.

I take the view that there is a way by which we become whole and integrated in ourselves and that anything which does not promote this is self evidently a negative thing and should be challenged.

The "details" of who is doing what to whom seem to me to be a bit extraneous and of secondary importance. Finding our own path to emotional healing awakens our feelings and supplies us with the real experiential guide as to what is legitimate/illegitimate.

[danceswithbunnies]

Is anders still around?

I used to LOVE reading his posts.

If you are still around Anders,
Did you ever figure out how to get at those unconscious thoughts?

I think we talked about that one time i said that it is possible that the body is actually the projection of the personal unconscious..(ACIM sees the whole world as the collective unconscious ego that can be healed by forgiveness).

The other thing you are going to have to contend with are the subliminals that are pumping directives and twisted thinking into your subconscious and unconscious...i personally believe that this is why we have such an increase in mental illness.

And now Government has technology where they can beam silent subliminal directly into your skull.