Emotions and Tonsils Have a Purpose We Have Yet To Understand

 As we have come to seek and wield external power consciously, we have come to view feelings as unnecessary appendages, like tonsils,-useless, but capable of creating pain and dysfunction. Thus, the pursuit of external power has led to a repression of emotion.

Gary Zukav, page 44

I often write and speak to this idea of repression and suppression being defense mechanisms that harm us more than they help us.  When we stuff the feeling and emoting experience just so we can keep going, doing, achieving, competing, we stuff a great deal of what it means to be human.  We deny the heart.  

We are , without knowing it, closing down to who we really are when we repress our emotion and instead of aligning with higher consciousness as we are here to do, we are denying it. For what?  For the sake of achieving some idea of external power and some semblance of control of our physical world. ...what we call, "Getting ahead." 

" Pain will slow you  down and make you less productive...so by all means "stuff it" or "numb from it", deny, run and avoid it.  Repress that emotion!!" ...seems to be the mantra of this world. 

We look at our emotions  as if they were annoyances in our way and  useless appendages, like tonsils, we need to cut out when they bring pain into our living experience.  Ironically,  I believe that tonsils have an important role in our bodies.  The body doesn't make anything it doesn't need.  Sure evolution and change may have rendered the role the tonsils play as less important than they once were and that  role may be less obvious than the role of other organs ...but they do have a role.  They wouldn't be there if they didn't. At the very least, they do help with immunity...often taking the hit from bacteria and other microorganisms so any part below their level won't have to. They sacrifice themselves in a cooperative way for the survival of the organism.  (That doesn't sound like a useless organ does it, nor does it allow us to view the body organs as if they were in one of Darwin's survival of the fittest competitions, does it?)  

Our emotions have a very important role too  and when we shut them out or stuff them down we cannot reach that higher level of logic and understanding that comes from the heart.  ...only awareness of your feelings can open your heart. page 45

When we close the door to our feelings, we close the door to the vital currents that energize and activate our thoughts and actions. page 44 As long as we are repressing how we feel, we will never discover how emotions affect everything we do and everything that happens in the universe. 

Emotions and Tonsils have a purpose we have yet to understand.  We will only come to that understanding if we allow ourselves to "feel" it all. 

All is well.

Gary Zukav ( 1989/2014) The Seat of the Soul. New York: Simon and Schuster.