Why Do We Have Emotions?

By Sarah Biermann
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Emotions are a major part of the Earth Game. We wanted to
experience duality, to see what it was like to be separate, limited,
and have physical bodies. We wanted to experience all the juicy, human
possibilities; to feel emotions, taste food, sing a song, ride a horse,
pet a cat, and make love. The problem is that we identify ourselves as being our
emotions. We say, "I am sad" or "I am frustrated". NOT TRUE! You are an
Infinite Being who is feeling an emotion. There is a belief that if you
have an emotion you become that emotion. If you feel shame it means
that there really is something wrong with you at a core level. There's
an unconscious belief that if we feel an emotion then it makes it real,
and it will never go away. Actually, the opposite is true, but we
aren't taught that.
We're at the end of the Earth Game of duality now. It is time
to release our judgments of what is good or bad and embrace the whole.
It isn't about only having the positive emotions and positive thoughts
in order to create a positive reality. It's not set up that way. In
order to fully experience joy, love and excitement, you must be willing
to equally fully experience sadness, anger and hopelessness. That's how
the Game was created.
The transition we are going through now is to be willing to
feel all the emotions fully while at the same time maintaining your
awareness of self as the Infinite Being playing the Earth Game. We're
remembering our multi-dimensionality. In her book Initiation, Elisabeth Haich wrote
about her experiences as a Priestess in Ancient Egypt and her
initiation process. They deliberately brought up strong emotions
(positive and negative). Ptahhotep is the Priest who taught her. He
explained emotions to her.

"My dear child," he begins, "initiation, as I have already explained
to you, means to become conscious on the highest level, the divine
plane. To be able to do this requires long physical training and
spiritual preparation. One first must strengthen the nerves to enable
them to bear these high vibrations without harm, without death.
To become conscious on a given plane means to conduct the
vibrations characteristic of this plane into the nerves and through the
nerves into the body. From the time a body is born, that is, from the
time a 'self' dwells in it, the body develops a power of resistance
corresponding to the average degree of consciousness of the spirit
dwelling in it.
The degree of consciousness of a living creature fluctuates up
and down, depending on its emotional condition, within the limits of an
octave of vibrations. These fluctuations, however, must not exceed the
limits of elasticity of the nerves; for if they do, injuries and
sicknesses of a more or less serious nature occur, even death. The
vibration belonging to a creative vital energy is absolutely lethal for
creatures whose consciousness has not yet reached this level.
The great initiation means consciously experiencing the vital
energy and creative vibrations of eternal being, experiencing these
vibrations on every plane of development and in their original
frequency, without transformation, and simultaneously conducting these
vibrations into the nerves and the body."

They began by intentionally producing emotional states by using dream pictures.

Once that was mastered they had to experience different
emotional states on command, without dream pictures, going from the
lowest to the highest.
Then they practiced fast changeovers from one emotional state to another.

The next step was to experience opposite emotional states, one
after the other, with no time lost for transition, shifting from deep
sadness to the highest hilarity, or from fear to self-assured courage.

"People believe that there always has to be a reason for their being
joyous or happy. Through the exercises with dream pictures we first
imagine we have a reason for being in one mood or another. Thus we
learn to control the reasons themselves! As we do not actually have a
reason, however, we have to imagine one.
Then comes the next step of experiencing an emotional state by
itself, without a reason. After long practice, we discover we have
always imagined we had a reason form being 'sad' or 'joyous',
'depressed' or 'exuberant' etc. Through these exercises we thus become
convinced that events and occurrences in our lives must not have any
effect on us. We discover that every state of consciousness arises —
and can only arise — within ourselves. The same event can provoke one
person to laughter and another to tears, while a third remains
completely indifferent; all because each is merely projecting outwardly
his own inward attitude, and it is only the inner attitude which
provokes our response, not the external events themselves."

 

Life is Meaningless:

An event occurs and emotion is felt. The mind creates a meaning
based on past experiences. A woman greets her husband when he returns
home from work. He says, "I don't want to talk right now," and walks
away. Her empathic system feels his anger. Then her mind creates a
meaning; perhaps she thinks, "He's mad at me. What did I do to cause
that? Was it because I was too tired to have sex last night? He said he
understood but maybe he is really angry." This brings up a past
experience when her lover had sex with her best friend and all the
fear, shame and anger she felt about that. Not to mention that it ended
her relationship. This can happen in just a few moments.

Now the strategies kick in. These are different from person to person and could include:

• Telling herself that she's being silly (over reacting) and distracting herself with something else.
  
• Seeking her spouse and trying to get him to talk with her
  (most likely about something else, or without really addressing her
  feelings honestly).
  
• Creating a plan to "win him back", perhaps a special meal or
  deciding that she must have sex tonight, regardless of how she feels
  (adding resentment to the mix).
  

All of this is made up. Her mind created a meaning that may have
nothing to do with what's really happening. Every event is basically
neutral. Different people with react in different ways to the same
situation or event. And at different times in your life you will react
differently to the same situation. Think about driving in traffic.
Sometimes you don't mind and other times it drives you nuts.  

Four Ways We Cope with Emotions

• Suppress/Deny: Trying to hide the emotion from yourself.
  
• Withholding: You are aware of the emotion but choose not to express it.
  
• Unconscious Expression: Dumping on another or blaming another.
  
• Conscious Experiencing/Expressing: Self-responsible and clear expression. Being willing to fully feel the emotion.
  

 

The Emotion/Thought Cycle:

Emotions trigger thoughts, which trigger more emotions etc. The
core of this cycle is the emotion. Infants experience emotions long
before they have any language to form thoughts. When an emotion is felt
it triggers the corresponding thoughts that triggers more emotions etc.
The problem is that most of the time the original emotion that started
this cascade of misery was probably not yours! When a person suppresses an emotion that emotion is amplified
out into the field. Because most people are constantly suppressing
their emotions, our environment is packed. We're swimming in a sea of
unexpressed emotion! And you are the empathic sponge that soaks it all
up. (This is part of the reason it feels so good to be in nature, away
from people.) Generally, people do not suppress positive emotions, so what
is stored are negative emotions. Your system (mental, physical,
emotional and spiritual) will seek out or create experiences that will
allow you to discharge (experience) suppressed emotions. Something will
happen that triggers one of these emotions, then your stored emotions
are brought up to be cleared. So you will continue to create situations
that "cause" you to feel the suppressed emotions. It is the
unwillingness to experience these emotions, and so the continued
suppression of them that keeps you stuck. As long as these emotions are
stuck in your systems, you will continue to experience situations that
trigger them. This is why you keep dating the same kind of person or
are repeated treated "badly" by others.
The only way to get free from this emotional prison is to
experience the emotions! And you must stay conscious of what is
happening around and within you. Pay attention! The first step is to recognize when emotion is present either within you or another.

1) What is the level of intensity between 1 and 10?

2) What is/are the emotion(s)?

You can refer to this list if you are not sure. Rather than
saying, "I am angry" say, "I feel anger". This simple change in how you
language helps you to keep your center. Your inner child relates to simple or basic feeling words.

Anger

Sadness

Grief

Fear

Shame

Guilt

Hopelessness

Helplessness

Powerlessness


3) What meaning has your mind applied? What dialog/thoughts go with the emotion(s)? Keep in mind that this is not necessarily true.

4) Where do you feel this in your body? Feel
into that place and breathe. Really go into it, knowing that the
emotional content is on it's way out. Shake, cry, growl, moan or pound
a pillow, whatever works to move the energy. With regular practice you will find that it gets easier to
stay consciously aware when a lot of emotions (yours or another's) are
flowing. You will be able to maintain your center no matter what is
happening. Also, as you empty your personal storage of emotions, you
will stop attracting situations to trigger negative emotions. And you
will have much more clarity about what others are feeling and what
motivates their actions. Your system will be able to flow more vital energy and you will flow through life, enjoying the Game.

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About Sarah Biermann
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Sarah Biermann is an internationally renowned Intuitive Healer,
Channel, and the founder of ImagiCreation. Clairvoyant and highly
empathic, she works directly with the language of the unconscious mind.
Able to clear and transform limiting systems, implants, past life
material and much more, she can be reached at:
sarah@limitless-one.com or by phone at: 415-672-1279
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