Suppressing Emotions

[Revolutionary Think]

What do you guys think about this?

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/timi-gustafson/bottling-up-negative-emotions_b_5056433.html 

 

[Visitor]

Psychology is still very shallow stuff. They still have not looked at the real causes of these emotions. As a result, they can only come up with band-aid solutions to overcoming them, such as releasing negative emotions to let it out. Gee, long time ago there was, and still is, such a thing as Primal (Scream) Therapy. Yet they will not talk about dealing with the common cause for all negative emotion. Fear.

Fear causes a person to tense up. In that tension they are burning up, and waste, a lot of life giving energy. Their cardiovascular and immune systems are steadily being over stressed. It's not healthy, or conducive to longevity.

If a tense person suffering from negative emotions could be truly honest with themselves, they will see what fear is governing their tension. Then, hopefully they will, act in faith that they will survive, confront their fears so as to overcome and dis-empower them. Most of the time, at first confrontation, fear dissipates.

As I've mentioned in other posts, a good example of a misunderstanding in dealing with a negative emotion, is anger. Anger is caused by the fear that something is not going the way we want it. To deal with it is to confront the fear of things not going our way. And realize that it is okay if things don't go our way. That it is okay to feel embarrassed / humiliated / exposed / vulnerable. We will still be okay. Of course the ego will have us think differently to save its face. But that too can be faced and tamed. IMHO

[Nahm]

@Revolutionary Think You are experiencing the thoughts you are repeating, this post is the proof. Pick, then start the repeating. There is only the working space of ight now. Time to stop pretending your past has any influence.

[Revolutionary Think]

@Nahm not quite sure what you mean? Proof of what? what am I experiencing that I'm repeating? 

[Ry4n]

I'm not surprised, suppressing emotions is like struggling in quick sand, it only makes you sink and quickly too. Denying our human nature that we feel pain only makes us neurotic. Allowing them helps them pass quicker. It's a shame that the education system doesn't teach us how to feel our emotions; how to be mindful of them, which results in people turning to all sorts of compulsions that cause so many mental illnesses like depression, anxiety, depersonalisation and addiction. This isn't a health issue, it's an education issue, and its pathetic and unforgivable that an education system that claims to prepare us for life doesn't teach us how to handle our emotions effectively.

[S33K3R]

It's kind of sad that what we know isn't common understanding. Seems kind of natural. Walk towards your fears face them. I learned that from cartoons as a kid LoL