Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Roger Ebert

My big long spiel yesterday was not meant to be as morbid and self-indulgent as it may have sounded.  I was trying to share some insights that others may relate to.  

I was trying to make the point  that emotions are energy  fueled by our thoughts and more particularly our beliefs.   They are just energy.  All energy flows and needs to pass through an object.  Think of an electrical current...it needs and entry and an exit point to allow for this flow.  If it doesn't pass through it will do great damage from within.  Because we attach meaning to our emotions and see them as the source of our happiness or our discomfort we sometimes block the flow.  If an emotion is believed to be the cause of suffering we may try to resist it, deny it and repress it.  It is not the emotion that is the issue or the circumstance we believed fueled the  emotion that is the problem...that causes the most discomfort...but the resistance to it.  When we resist it, we don't give it a way out and the energy  stays within the body and mind causing upheaval.

Emotions need no judgement.  They are neither good or bad; right or wrong...they just are what they are.  Judging an emotion as something "we should not feel" is self destructive.  It is like judging the flow of water in a stream. When we place judgement on our emotions we may feel we have the right to decide what feelings to let flow and what feelings to block.  Blocking emotions is like making a damn.  We all know what happens to a free flowing stream when we block it from flowing.  It builds up on one side of the damn creating turbulent energy...and all the life on the other side becomes stagnant, dry and eventually dies. Emotions are just energy that is meant to flow through sustaining a well balanced energy and the beauty of life. Whether it is fear or love; joy or sorrow, peace or anxiety...we just need to let the emotion flow through. Not only do we block the unwanted emotions when we make a damn...we often block all emotions.

I also wanted to express that I felt fear...and it was okay to feel fear.  In order to understand fear, reduce it to its proper size and meaning (it is like every other emotion...just energy) we need to look at it, accept it , let it blow a bit and then let it go.  Denying fear and avoiding fear are common traps we as humans often fall in which leads to much more self limiting destruction than the fear itself can cause. 

Emotions need to be expressed. One way to open the door to allow an emotion to flow through is to express it.  Say to self or others, "I am afraid."  "I feel fear." Once we do that we stop resisting the reality of it, we shrink it down to size and we let it flow through us.  It may take time for it to make its way out but it will go.

Emotions are also messengers...letting us know that there is something in our subconscious minds that may need examination.  Our emotions are fueled by our belief systems...recognizing our feelings can help us to identify what beliefs we may need to change.

Many of us are suffering unnecessarily because of our self limiting and life destructive beliefs.  These beliefs are a result of conditioning and social doctrine...that doesn't make them true.  In order to free ourselves from the prisons they keep us in...we must be able to get to the core of our belief systems and examine it.  Some universal beliefs that impact many of us are: The body is all there is to us and when it dies we die.  We are all victims of the clock.  Our lives are dictated by the past and future.  Suffering is caused by random and external acts of circumstance. There is only so much "good" stuff to go around so we need to separate, defend and attack to make sure we get our share.  We are all separated by our body lines from each other, God and the universe.  What we experience with the five senses is the only reality there is. etc etc Oh the list goes on and on.

If we change the belief we can change our life.  That is the truth.  But changing belief means having the courage to look way inside to where the belief system is hidden and to challenge it.  It is not an easy process...let me tell ya.  I have been at it for years now and I have days, like yesterday, when I realize I am still so stuck in limiting belief.  Yet I also learn that it is happening...I am getting there, however slowly.  I am changing my beliefs and I am changing my life.  I need to accept where I am at right now in the process though.  I have a long ways to go.

All is well in my world.