What To Do With The 7 Human Emotions

Below I list 7 human emotions, describe how and why the arise within
you and what you can do about these primary emotions.

You can become an expert at understanding emotions and how to control
emotions so you stay conscious, still experience whatever you do, but
have it affect your life so much less.

1. Anger

Why do you get angry?  You don’t choose to get angry but something
gets triggered within and boom, there it is…

• energizing you
• tensing your arms and fists
• arising up your centre and gushing out your mouth if
  you let it go

Anger is the energy that says ‘that is not OK with me, my boundary has
been crossed, I feel I have lost control of my freedom.’

2. Sadness

Sadness is the response to having lost something or empathizing with
someone else who has lost something.  This ‘thing’ that you have
lost could be an object, hope, a vision or a birthright (nurturing,
love).  It can also arise from noticing something you don’t have
that others do have.  For example envy is a positive experience
but when accompanied by thoughts of jealousy or ‘poor me’ it turns
negative.

3. Grief

Grief is similar to sadness in that it arises in reaction to a
perceived loss.  However, I 
will distinguish it from sadness by
saying that grief is a whole different scale of loss.  This is
more about losing something that you identified as part of you, rather
than losing something you have.

We all have a self-image and that self-image includes relationships you
are involved in.  So grief in my opinion is what is felt when the
energy connection to another being is broken.  This could be an
animal also of course.

4. Fear

Fear is having a vested interest in something not happening, presumably
because it threatens you in some way, not only physically but threatens
your image or possessions.  When you care about something not
happening you will feel afraid.  For example if you were prepared
to experience anything, even death, you would not feel fear.

Fear is so prevalent in our lives because we live from our sense of
being separate, isolated and an object.  If we experienced ourself
as part of the one whole union of souls and saw how life really worked,
we would not be so attached to events happening or not happening and
fear would not be an experience I propose.

5. Shame

I don’t think shame is considered to be a primary emotion in that it is
not something that all humans feel for the same reasons.  By that
I mean what might make someone feel shame might not make someone else
feel shame.

Shame is based on an individual’s conditioning.  Someone might
feel ashamed about their sexual desires while another might love their
desires and explore them with great openness and wonder.

Shame is a negative feeling in reaction to something you are or think
you are.

6. Worry

Probably not a genuine primary emotion but rather an activity. 
Nevertheless it does not feel good.

Worry is a mental activity of persistently thinking about something
that might go wrong.

The only good thing about worry is that once the incident has passed
without coming to fruition you will feel like the weight of the world
has been lifted from your shoulders.

7. Guilt

Similarly to shame I would not call this a primary emotion but rather a
reaction to conditioning.  Different to shame in that rather than
being a reaction to being who you are guilt is a reaction to something
you have done.

If you do something which goes against your morals and ethics you will
feel guilty.  This unpleasant feeling is designed to prevent you
from doing that thing again.

What You Can Do

One of the most empowering discoveries people make is to learn why
emotions arise and that by changing your thoughts, attitudes and what
the events in your life mean to you, you can change how you feel.

For example living in the ‘now’ as they say will reduce fear and
worry.  Doing shadow-work
and discovering who you are with acceptance will reduce shame and guilt.

These
are the 7 human emotions that you might find to be most prevalent
in your life.  You are not helpless and at the mercy of emotions,
there are many more than these 7 human emotions.  You can do
plenty towards understanding emotions and how to control
emotions by looking at how and when they arise.