Emotional connection can be a strength or a weakness and the decision is up to you.
What is an emotion?
Emotion, a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one’s circumstances, mood, or relationship with others.
The next definition says emotion is instinctive or intuitive feeling, as distinguished from reasoning or knowledge.
So, basically, emotion is a feeling that can set a tone in your body. You can either cause it based on your reasoning or knowledge, or you can be affected by your circumstances, mood, or surroundings. Fair?
I would argue that these feelings, if they can be changed based on reasoning or knowledge, are allowed or chosen by you. Meaning that if you frame a thought, action, or circumstances around you in a different way with your reasoning, then you are able to shift the feeling, or emotion that you are getting. If we can agree there, let’s move forward.
Emotions are energy. In latin, the word emotion is “emoter”. Literally means energy in motion. Everything in this world is energy. An atom is 99.999% space. That space is not filled with nothingness, it is filled with vibrational energy and that energy only stops when an observer is observing.
WTF? Does that mean?
Our emotions are fluid, they aren’t fixed, they can change like our appetite. You may be hungry for pizza, but when you get to the pizza joint the cheese sticks may steal your stomach.
So, without going in depth on what Einstein called superposition or what Shrodinger called the observer affect, we understand a few things.
We know that energy is always moving and it is affected by our observation. We also know that our emotions, when we put focus on them, can be manipulated.
Right now, I want you to think about what it would feel like to see a cute little dog trying to cross the street and, in a moments notice, a car almost runs over it. If you imagined it just now, you may have gotten a little tense and you may even have felt your body get warm. In acting, we call this emotional memory. You just affected your emotions with your mind. How did it feel? Now, imagine watching that same little puppy run across the street toward an older lady in her robe. The lady bends down as the puppy nears. The puppy begins to lick her face and the woman starts to smile and giggle. Most likely, you just got a warm fuzzy feeling and you may have even smiled! If you didn’t smile, you are a monster, jk, jk. But this is an emotional connection.
What this exercise just told us is that our imagination can control our emotions. This means you do have control of those emotions and your emotional reaction if you truly focus on the circumstances you set them up in.
In acting, we set up a set of circumstances that the “character” has going on in their life. Once we set these circumstances, and emotional connections, we are allowed to live freely in the moment as we should live, act, and react according to the parameters we just set. These parameters frame our actions, reactions, and emotional connection.
The energy of emotion
Now we know our emotions emit energy because we are all energetic beings and now we know our thoughts/imagination affect our emotions. When we feel something, our antenna emits a frequency and, on the scale from a low dense vibration, such as hate, to a high frequency vibration, such as joy or love, we release the frequency according to the emotion.
This frequency, just like a radio wave, will attract like frequency, meaning that if you are constantly in fear, hate, and anxiety, you are emitting a low frequency. We know that frequencies attract like frequencies so, if we stay in hate most of the time, we are attracting more frequencies on that wave form.
I say all of this because
For the next two weeks, I would like you to set up your frame of thought and emotional reaction with a preset emotional connection.
I want you to write down three things:
- What is something that brings you absolute joy?
- What is something you would love to have? It could be $20 all the way to a smile from the girl next door.
- Do you believe in faith, science, or the power of love?
If you said yes to number three, then you should commit to the exercise wholeheartedly.
I would like for you to take 10 breaths. It doesn’t matter if it comes in your nose or your mouth, but 10 nice easy breathes. On each inhale, I want you to pause for five seconds, and on each exhale I want you to pause for five seconds. After you finish the breathing, I want you to imagine that thing that brings you absolute joy. Focus on it intensely and, as the saying goes – where focus goes, energy flows. Then, I want you to be aware of the feelings in your body that it is giving you. Feel what that joy does to you, embrace that tingle that goes everywhere. Remember that feeling and, now, as if you are getting that $20 or the girl next door is smiling at you, I want you to keep that feeling of joy as you see that “girl next door” winking at you. Hold that feeling and truly feel what it feels like for another five minutes. Let it play through your head. Feel how weightless your body becomes and just embrace that feeling.
In two weeks, do me the favor of returning to this blog to let me know if anything interesting happened or if your perception of emotions has changed.
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