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Emotional Health
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I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.
I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science.
My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God
Albert Einstein. The Human Side, 1954
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Everything in life, when you boil it down to its sub-atomic level is just energy. This energy is the force of life. This force creates and connects everything. By definition, nothing can exist without it or separate from it.
The history of mankind has been a debate over what this force is called or wants. Today some call it God, in various languages, or the evolutionary force or life force. It doesn’t matter because the words and interpretations are the petty details that only us humans care about.
This force of life flows through us. Our beliefs determine and shape the world that we experience.
As the life force flows through our beliefs, it creates an emotional reaction. This reaction is a message from Life, God, the Universe, Evolution or whatever you wish to call it.
If the emotion is positive, your beliefs are allowing life to flow through you freely.
If the emotions are negative, there are one or more beliefs that are causing friction with the energy flowing through you. The specific emotion you feel is highlighting to you the beliefs that need changing in order for you to feel in tune with life.
Adapting your beliefs to fit in with your emotions will develop the truest and most effective Operating System. And this will lead you to the path that is perfectly designed for you to walk along.
The type of emotion will help to lead you to the source of the belief that is creating your discomfort. Emotional health or dis-ease is created in exactly the same way as physical health or dis-ease.
We are physically healthy when our body is in its natural state. When our body gets knocked out of balance through something alien to it, such as pollutants, germs or even the biochemical effects of too much stress, it starts to exhibit symptoms of being unwell. Many of the symptoms of a disease are actually the side effects of our body working to protect us.
For example, we experience a temperature as our immune system mobilizes to attack the invader. The temperature is not caused by the disease, but by our body’s reaction to the disease.
Happiness is the emotional equivalent of physical health. We become unhappy when we emotionally take on something that is alien to us.
When we say something, or act in a way, that is not really true to us we become unhappy. We experience unhappiness in a number of ways. Sometimes it is anger or frustration, other times it is anxiety.
All are the emotional equivalent of a disease or illness. Our emotions are not caused by events that happen to us… but by our reaction to the events that happen to us.
Our happiness and emotional health comes under attack whenever we think, speak or act something that is not really true to our natural design. Just as with our physical health, we are continually attacked by many ‘invading aliens’. These include;
The pressure to conform to Society’s, groups and organizational rules.
Expectations of ourselves, and others, to live up to certain standards.
Fitting into pre-designed roles, which restrict, confine and limit our expression of our true individuality.
These will attack us for as long as we continue to believe they are important. Once we get crystal clear on exactly who we are and what we are here to do… our emotional immune system becomes strong enough to make these invaders irrelevant to us. Just as a healthy body with sufficient nutritional reserves will protect us from physical invaders.
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