Being Happy - Accepting Emotion

[ianvass]

Emotion drives everything we do, and I do mean everything. Logic is important, but logic itself has no power to bring us to a new place and create change. Just look at all the people who are dying of heart disease that know they need to change their diets in order to live, but refuse to do so. Logic says, "Eat right or die", and they respond with

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[vesper_evensong]

I love this actually. It goes along with all the things I've been saying for years. My mother taught me a bizarre thing that helped along the way, she said, "Feelings are not right or wrong, they just are." This is not an excuse to do bad things because we are upset, but rather simply letting our emotions be what they are, acknowledging them, and choosing what we do (action) based on realizing it's just an emotion, and we still have control. I don't block emotions anymore - that's how I landed in depression so many times, I blocked feeling pain, but I needed to feel that pain in order to grow, and to learn, and to be human

[ianvass]

Heh. Emotion tends to be an (ahem) emotional subject, and when we have emotion, that emotion presses to be expressed, often in Wall o' Text.

You're fine. I enjoyed reading your thoughts! :)

[vesper_evensong]

I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'm still learning so much about it, but obviously we have emotions of all sorts for several reasons. It's an interesting journey - life.