LOSING IT, FEELING EMOTIONS, SHOWING ANGER & GETTING MAD!

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IF ONLY THE "BANE" OF OUR EXISTENCE WAS TO GET MAD, THE BOON OF OUR EXISTENCE WOULD BE HAPPINESS. THERE IS HOPE FOR ALL OF US, IF JUST SOME OF US, TAKE HEED TO SPIRITUAL NEEDS. IT'S EASY TO SEE IN THIS DAY AND TIME THAT PEOPLE ARE LOSING IT. THE CONVERGENCE OF A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS, THE RESURGENCE OF RACISM AND AN OVERALL INCREASE IN HOSTILITY HAS GIVEN RISE TO ANXIETY, ANGERS FIRST COUSIN. THE BIBLE ENCOURAGES US TO AVOID ANGER, AND WHEN WE DO EXPERIENCE ANGER NOT TO ALLOW IT TO CAUSE US TO SIN. LET'S  KEEP IT REAL; MOST OF US AT SOME TIME OR ANOTHER IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER GET MAD. THE "SPIRIT OF ANGER" WORKS AS A FESTERING SPIRIT THAT EATS AWAY AT THE SOUL. EMOTIONS MOVE OR "GET IN MOTION" WHEN TRIGGERED BY ACTIONS OR THOUGHTS FROM REAL OR IMAGINED EVENTS. THEY MOVE FROM THE INSIDE TO THE OUTSIDE WHERE WE CAN CONSCIOUSLY FEEL THEM. OUR SOULS, THE SEAT OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS, CAN ONLY BEAR SO MUCH WITHOUT HAVING SOME TYPE OF TANGIBLE EXPRESSION IN WORD OR IN DEED. TODAY'S ANXIETIES EXPRESSED AS ANGER ARE EXPLODING! THREATS ARE NO LONGER THREATS THEY HAVE MORPHED INTO INTENTIONAL PROMISES. THESE ERUPTIONS ARE BECOMING MORE AND MORE COMMON BECAUSE THE "SPIRIT OF RESTRAINT" IS NO LONGER BEING EXERCISED BY OUR LEADERS, LAW ENFORCEMENT OR THE PROLETARIAT. LEADERSHIP SETS THE TONE AND PROVIDES THE CONSCIOUSNESS OR CLIMATE DEMONSTRATED AS ACCEPTABLE FROM THE TOP DOWN. 

​F.E.A.R. IS OUR ACRONYM THAT STANDS FOR FRIGHT EXPRESSED AS-A REALITY. TODAY, OUR POPULACE AS A WHOLE IS COMING FACE TO FACE WITH THE TYPE OF P.T.S.D. THAT IS USUALLY A BY-PRODUCT OF OPPRESSION OR WAR. AS WE WARNED IN PREVIOUS POSTS; WHEN WE REOPENED THE PANDORA'S BOX OF RACISM, WHICH WAS ALREADY LEAKING AND HAD NEVER BEEN SEALED, IT WOULD ALLOW THAT SPIRIT TO RUN AMOK AGAIN! WE'VE MOVED FROM A "NATURAL" VIRAL PANDEMIC TO A "SPIRITUAL" EPIDEMIC OF ANIMOSITY. MOST PEOPLE FAIL TO ACKNOWLEDGE THOUGHTS AS THINGS OR WORDS AS SPIRIT. AS A RESULT OUR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS BEHIND ALL THAT'S GOING ON IS TAINTED. THE SPIRIT OF A THOUGHT IS MOST COMMONLY EXPRESSED IN WORDS AND ARTICULATED IN VARIOUS WAYS THAT RELEASES ENERGY. SOMETIMES THESE SPIRITS GET CAUGHT UP, STUCK AND CONTAINED IN WAYS THAT CONTAMINATE OUR THOUGHTS AND IDEAS. WHEN WE ARE IN A "NORMAL" STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS IT ALLOWS US TO PONDER OUR ACTIONS BEFORE COMMITTING TO THEM. HOWEVER, OUR SUBCONSCIOUS IS MORE DELICATE AND MANIPULATIVE THAN WE THINK. SPIRITS INTERACT WITH US AT THAT LEVEL OF THINKING, WHETHER WE KNOW IT OR NOT! THOUGHTS THAT GET TRAPPED IN OUR MINDS CAN BECOME DANGEROUS EXPRESSIONS IF WE CANNOT RESOLVE THEM THERE. THOUGHTS ARE THINGS AND OFTEN MANIFEST IN OUR WORDS AND DEEDS. WE ARE SEEING MORE AND MORE OF THESE EXPRESSIONS THROUGH ACTIONS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN DEALT WITH, DISCUSSED AND RESOLVED AT AN INTELLECTUAL LEVEL. THE SAFEST WAY TO RELEASE ENERGY IS THROUGH VERBAL DIALOGUE. EVERY URGE HAS AN ORIGIN. EVERY TYPE OF ENERGY COMES WITH ITS OWN LEVEL OF URGENCY. OUR INDIVIDUAL URGES SHOULD NEVER OVERRIDE OUR COLLECTIVE RESPECT AND RESTRAINT TOWARDS OTHERS. AN URGE HAS NO LOGIC OR MIND OF ITS OWN. MOST URGES HAVE BOTH AN EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL COMPONENT TO THEM. ALL URGES MUST BE CHANNELED AND CONTROLLED! IT IS OUR MINDS THAT GIVE OUR URGES THE UNCTION TO FUNCTION.  WHAT WE FEEL IS NOT ALWAYS RATIONAL AND "IN FACT" MAY NOT BE REAL. "FEELINGS" ALWAYS "FEEL" REAL AND OUR PERSONAL SPIRIT STAYS IN CONTACT WITH THEM AS IT DOES WITH THE ENTIRE SPIRIT REALM. THE SPIRIT REALM IS FILLED WITH FEELINGS! WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO FOOLISHLY IGNORE THE OVERWHELMING MOUNTING EVIDENCE OF IT'S PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCE AND PRESENCE? WHEN WILL THE WORLD WAKE UP? THE "SCIENCE OF SPIRIT" IS NOT A DIFFICULT FIELD OF STUDY! IT IS MORE OF AN IGNORED SCIENCE. THIS IS THE FIELD OF SCIENCE WE STRIVE TO APPLY HERE!   

ENDURANCE FADES AND TOLERANCE HAS LIMITS

Suck it up, be a man, put your big girl panties on and get over it; are some of the expressions we use to encourage one another to toughen up. Although we mean well, sometimes it is advisable and necessary to indulge pity. The spirit or attitude of our expressions are as important as the words themselves. There is a fine line between sharing sorrow, showing compassion and wallowing in grief. We experience grief as a natural human response to loss with stages and cycles that may be repeated. Perhaps the planet is grieving and stuck in the stage of anger. Why does it seem as if so many of us are always upset? What hope has been lost? What opportunity has been denied? What rights have been removed? What dreams have been deferred? We should keep in mind that every emotion has a purpose and that the ability to feel them is a part of our psychological construct. Feelings are as much of a protection and a warning mechanism as they are anything else. A hiss of a snake or roar of a lion should invoke some level of healthy fear. Fear is one thing we all have in common. As much as we are all similar we are also uniquely different. We can all endure some level of both physical and emotional pain, however our individual tolerances differ. One of the fundamental errors we make in accessing others is to compare them to ourselves! This applies to culture, gender, race, regions, religions and multiple other factors. Feelings have a broad range of applications and definitions. Our feelings interact with our senses and effect how we judge situations, ourselves and others. Without their presence at the physical tangible level we would potentially and unknowingly subject ourselves to irreparable harm. Without their presence at a psychological intangible level we would all become "raisins in the sun."

WHAT HAPPENS TO A DREAM DEFERRED?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a soar and then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load?
OR DOES IT EXPLODE?
Langston Hughes

WE NEED A BARTENDERS MINDSET: MIXING AND MUDDLING REQUIRES SKILL 

Although most of us use the terms feelings and emotions interchangeably there are many distinctions. We "have" feelings and "feel" emotions. Feelings are the meanings we give to emotions. It may be helpful to see their relationship as two sides of the same coin. Feelings are generated by our beliefs, memories and thoughts. We can be influenced to feel various ways (brainwashed) through our environment. Feelings operate at a conscious and physically recognized level. Emotions "move" or surface from a subconscious hidden place we may not even be aware of. Sometimes suppressed memories flood us with emotions and we may not be sure how to process them or know how to feel about them. We all have the power to selectively choose and feel emotions by recalling them from memory. These can be characterized as "memory initiated emotions." Emotions dwell closer to our imagination than our reasoning and dwell in the subconscious area of the mind. Emotions, when stirred, can surface and express themselves in multiple ways. A flood of emotions can be so overwhelming that no dam can hold them. They can manifest in our voice, facial expressions, gait and posture. These are just some of the signs to look for. Spirits take advantage of our mixed emotions. Mixing chemicals, drinks, drugs and ingredients in a recipe requires precision. Mixed emotions can be explosive! Our emotions like to surface as reactions. However, feelings are within our conscious control and can allow us to respond or be responsible. There are models for emotions. We'll consider just six basic emotions. Anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise are within a spectrum of emotions we all can relate to. Our five senses (there are more than five) operate hand in hand with the emotions we feel. The fight, freeze or flight response is an example of this. Feelings have the ability to create emotions through our imaginations and can connect our spirit to thoughts that change the way we feel. This is not double talk. We must consider the effects that feelings and emotions have upon our spirit. Our soul and spirit are intricately interwoven into our body, mind and thinking. These things all coincide with one another and life's events. We can all "imagine" how something feels without going through the experience by tapping into our personal range of emotions. Suppressing emotions & ignoring feelings frustrates us, feels bad and stirs even more emotions! ​The "spirit of ANGER" takes advantage of our ignorance of how FEELINGS and EMOTIONS operate! One definition for PEACE is the absence of anxiety & frustration.

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LOVE IS A SPIRIT TOO!

As real as "feeling emotions are," they are only as powerful as we make them. It's easy to confuse feelings of many different types due to their dual applications. Whether we are aware of it or not, we feel everything. There is either a physical or psychological (emotional) feeling associated with EVERYTHING we do! Sometimes we are so used to certain feelings that we simply take them for granted. Eating, sleeping, walking and just relieving ourselves each feels a certain way. Love feels a certain way also, but more importantly love behaves in specific ways. Although feelings appear to be reliable indications of whatever caused them, their origins may not be rooted in love. Feelings can easily deceive the best of us whether used as evidence boldly or with diffidence. Love is not difficult, but love is obligated to stubbornly enforces its code of conduct. Anyone who has been a recipient of love's discipline knows this. So many of us  resists love's strong hand of chastisement and only embrace what comes easy. What good is a love that ignores and fails to correct what's wrong? Love champions discipline. We cannot be truly loved without being properly led. Which of us would expose our children to the hardships of life without first teaching them life's lessons. Here comes a hard saying (an analogy).  Life births only two types of children. At birth they both appear to be alike. These are not male or female but rather babies and bastards. Life births us all while arbitrarily and impartially chastening us. None of us are actually born as bastards. It is by our choices we become that way. "Life's bastards," will not accept the reprimands that come along with the firm hand of love, life's partner sends to us all. Life's babies are guilty too. They complain, criticize, fight, rebel and resist life's reprimand; but eventually they will receive, heed and respond to chastening and/or reproof. Separating the babies from the bastards is not our job. Wheat and tares often grow together until the day of harvest. There will be times when we all behave as bastards. We cannot personally give ourselves an exemption or a ghetto pass. Challenging our own biases allows us to embrace a "spirit of truth." The "spirit of love" is accompanied by a strong cast of similar spirits like boldness, courage, forgiveness, sacrifice and truth. Love has the strongest bonds of any spirit and reaches beyond death or the grave. Sometimes we limit love's capability when lacking FAITH! Fortunately love has a sister named GRACE, the cousin of MERCY, all children of PROMISE. Our consolation is in knowing that love never fails. We only have to exercise it regardless of how we FEEL about what appears to oppose it. Listen up and speak up. Do not fear what we don't want to hear, love is stronger than death!