| a typical example of how unrealistic all negative emotions are. In the last analysis, all negative emotions | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| emotions are. In the last analysis, all negative emotions are compulsive. There comes a time on this | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| particularly with people who do not trust their emotions and intuitions, but put all their trust into | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| At times, the intellect forbids hate and negative emotions. But whenever it can be rationalized and justified | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the mistake of concluding that all instincts and emotions are negative. Therefore you do not give the | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| we thus tend to level off all our emotions in some way, even anger or other strong | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| way, even anger or other strong feelings? Our emotions will not be as strong anymore. ANSWER: It | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| stage of development does tone down your violent emotions. You genuinely feel more serene. But you should | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| actually, unconsciously, you are seething with strong repressed emotions. These have to reach the surface consciousness before | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| example, if you are very afraid of your emotions, you may believe your lack of strong negative | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| judged whether lack of anger, or other negative emotions, is a sign of growth and harmony, or | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| of gaining maturity is to become aware of emotions you may never have thought you had. QUESTION | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| No, that is not so, except for negative emotions. Make your goal the leveling off of negative | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| Make your goal the leveling off of negative emotions. Eventually true serenity will bring this about. But | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| purpose was. In order to determine this, the emotions you once felt as a child and, in | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| will see the contradictions, the arbitrariness of your emotions and how your unconscious concepts and ideas govern | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| superimpose still other ones, along with contradictory underlying emotions. Let me give you an example. Submissive people | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| for you to feel and experience all your emotions, to appraise their significance and translate them into | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| feeling and experiencing all your positive and negative emotions. I cannot emphasize this enough. As you gradually | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| their origin and meaning. Becoming aware of your emotions is a gradual process and happens only when | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| strain, tiredness, and vague anxiety result from repressed emotions. Mostly, they are unaware of their negative emotions | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| emotions. Mostly, they are unaware of their negative emotions, which they keep in hiding and which come | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| first major step in becoming aware of the emotions is an inner permission to find out what | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| way resentment, guilt, anxiety, animosity, and other negative emotions will rise to consciousness. These negative emotions account | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| negative emotions will rise to consciousness. These negative emotions account for the inhibition of spontaneity and for | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| you will find a vast accumulation of smoldering emotions that you often believe to be entirely alien | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| into emotional awareness. You will then experience these emotions. This is a painful process, my friends. I | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| spiritual development cannot occur without clearing up distorted emotions, your knowledge is still largely theoretical and not | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| increasingly aware of the true significance of your emotions will you understand that spiritual development deals much | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spiritual development deals much more with your unconscious emotions than with your actions and thoughts. The general | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| apparently insignificant insight about your own reactions and emotions will constitute a major step toward spiritual growth | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you safely take a spiritual approach to your emotions. The distinction between the spiritual and the psychological | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you explore the meaning of your previously unconscious emotions. Since this Tower of Babel exists within your | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that each one of you is experiencing such emotions; if you question yourself truly, you will ultimately | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of power. Oh, you may have recognized such emotions already, to a degree, but not to their | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the self. Rebellion must follow this set of emotions. Whenever fear, timidity, nonassertion, appeasement, and obedience predominate | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to develop, you may often find that your emotions completely deviate from such knowledge. Problems you carry | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| working for a while and coming across corresponding emotions, trends, and reactions within yourself, you will understand | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| time. May these words raise echoes in your emotions. As you let this lecture affect you, it | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| level, it becomes increasingly necessary to allow all emotions to reach surface awareness, so as to understand | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| reach surface awareness, so as to understand these emotions and to enable them to mature. Most of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| struggle is primarily for happiness, and since immature emotions lead to unhappiness, your secondary aim becomes the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and appropriate step to live through negative, immature emotions in order to afford them the opportunity to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and thus become mature and constructive, the childish emotions are suppressed, put out of awareness and buried | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the muscles at all, to feel the child's emotions at all, with the rationalization that such exercise | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| functioning which alone can lead to constructive mature emotions. Since this is more or less the case | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of growth now. In this growing period, immature emotions have to express themselves. Only as they are | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| point when you no longer need such immature emotions. This will not happen through a process of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| can only be done if you experience your emotions as they exist in you now. When you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you prevent yourself now from consciously experiencing these emotions, you will not get rid of them; you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of them; you will not enable healthy mature emotions to follow in their place, but you will | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| yourself, that the crisis reactivated the still immature emotions. It just does not penetrate your mind that | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| The fact that you put raw, destructive, immature emotions out of sight instead of growing out of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| but this is a very misleading conclusion. Immature emotions earned you punishment as a child; either they | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to hinder self-expression. Consequently, as you perceived such emotions to be undesirable, you proceeded to whisk them | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| You also found it necessary to repress existing emotions because the expression of the negative produced an | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| say that if you live out your negative emotions, the world will punish you in one form | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| another. Yes, my friends, this is true. Immature emotions are indeed destructive and will indeed bring you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| discipline or an aim, and expose your negative emotions, that is indeed destructive. Try to distinguish between | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| try to realize the purpose of exposing your emotions, and then develop the courage and humility to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| tremendous difference between merely allowing immature and destructive emotions to come to the fore in order to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| process of communication. This is the only way emotions can mature. By going through the period that | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| that was missed in childhood and adolescence, the emotions will finally mature and you will no longer | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| longer need to fear the power of those emotions which you cannot control by merely putting them | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| happen as a rule as long as your emotions remain destructive and childish; they are unreliable in | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and they are secondary in efficiency. When healthy emotions make your intuition reliable, there will be a | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and helpless. But if you have mature, strong emotions, you will trust yourself and therein find a | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| existed. After the first painful release of negative emotions, you will find a certain relief in the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| having gained insight and understanding, new warm, good emotions will come out of you that could not | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| not express themselves as long as the negative emotions were held in check. You will also learn | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| on firm ground. For only in the mature emotions, in the courage to make this maturity and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| from it. After you have evaluated the childish emotions, you will hold in your hand the key | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| danger in becoming aware of and expressing childish emotions. There is danger only if you let them | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| still denying the awareness and expression of your emotions, even though they are at the moment still | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| reach your surface awareness, how can healthy, strong emotions fill your being? If you cannot deal with | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| QUESTION: If someone doing this work finds wild emotions going back to childhood, how is it possible | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| a helper present, we may not feel such emotions, while we strongly feel them at other times | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| what is the right way to handle these emotions at the moment they come up? ANSWER: In | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| In the first place, it is significant if emotions only come out when one is not actively | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of consistent repression. Due to such repression, the emotions that come out first will appear at inopportune | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to face the self in its entirety, destructive emotions will not only appear at the proper time | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the basic defense-mechanism is left untouched. If destructive emotions govern you, instead of your being able to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| where this leads to. If such subtle hidden emotions can be detected, it will alleviate any danger | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| detected, it will alleviate any danger of negative emotions taking on a power that the personality cannot | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| not feel guilty about the existence of such emotions which are probably incompatible with the image you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of your mistaken self-image, the strength of negative emotions will abate. Yes, you will, of course, experience | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| abate. Yes, you will, of course, experience negative emotions, but you will never fear that they can | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| it this way: the strong impact of negative emotions, to the point where you fear that you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you are not your idealized self. The negative emotions in themselves would be much less disturbing if | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| ease. You will become capable of experiencing negative emotions in a way that promotes growth. You will | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| if you are alone at the moment. Moreover, emotions will come up during working sessions and will | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of my friends. QUESTION: That means that the emotions as such are not dangerous, but it is | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you will be in control of evolving negative emotions without repressing them, but expressing them constructively and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| think you should be, as opposed to the emotions that actually come to the fore. The moment | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| will no longer feel threatened by the negative emotions. You will be able to handle them. This | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| harm comes from the existence of the negative emotions as such. It does not. It comes from | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| This is the nature of such strong, powerful emotions, and they can endanger you only as long | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| not cut from one piece. Very many contradictory emotions are possible. You may love a particular person | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of this path, little by little the negative emotions will disappear. But while they are still present | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you said previously, it would seem that the emotions are a tremendous power factor, raging violently unless | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| means repression. The necessity of channeling powerful destructive emotions exists, of course. But, unfortunately, mostly the wrong | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the person grows out of the powerful negative emotions. Then there will be no sublimation necessary. It | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| wrong approach when it comes to controlling negative emotions. With a good intent to channel and to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| discussed the importance of becoming aware of your emotions. I spoke about the neglect of emotional development | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| may expect to find once you allow your emotions to reach surface awareness. Once you stop repressing | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| reach surface awareness. Once you stop repressing your emotions, you will find not only definite individual negative | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| you will find not only definite individual negative emotions, such as hostility, resentment, aggressiveness, and envy, but | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| you will understand how they breed the negative emotions about which, consciously or unconsciously, you feel so | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| impossible. All this can be found in your emotions. It is one thing to understand theories, but | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| within yourself. Only exploring the depths of your emotions and clearly understanding their significance will make it | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| to be quite free of negative impulses and emotions and to reject yourself because they exist. This | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| you. Instead of trying to whisk away such emotions, learn to accept yourself in spite of them | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| still like yourself, then slowly but surely your emotions will mature and your reactions will change, and | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| always exists. When you learn to allow your emotions to come to surface awareness and then determine | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| what you really feel, letting out your true emotions and reactions. Without that you cannot ever find | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| up, the more you will resist displaying your emotions where it would be constructive to do so | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| Again, the procedure is simply to let these emotions come out without trying to change them, because | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| lessen. You will become capable of observing such emotions without self-contempt and therefore without repression and without | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| condition you will find when you observe your emotions carefully. And that is the all-important subject of | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| become aware of that by bringing out your emotions at this point. Once that happens, once you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| any momentary situation is permanent. And your childish emotions, despite your intellectual understanding, still feel that way | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| that in thus entering a benign circle, negative emotions such as self-pity, helplessness, hostility, guilt, and resentment | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the depth, width, and far-reaching significance of these emotions. Then, and only then, will you enter into | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| QUESTION: What about the people who let their emotions guide their lives without recognizing the ethical laws | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| depends on humanity's inner state of being, your emotions and mind. Merely living according to these great | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| asked as to how to handle very wild emotions at a time when one has no helper | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| available. But what does one do if the emotions are so deep-seated, so deeply buried and repressed | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| frequently, a person does not know that further emotions are buried and demand to come out in | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Why are you afraid of letting out your emotions to the full extent? Usually you will find | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be unable to control yourself, to handle these emotions, and that you will be forced to give | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is that the full scope of one's repressed emotions comes as a shock because it is so | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for instance, that you can be aware of emotions without having to act on them. You also | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |