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The Great Energy of Emotions
Mechanisms for Containing Emotions
Emotions and Stress
Letting Go of Negative Feelings
The Anatomy of Emotions
Scale of Emotions[4]
Understanding Emotions
Top 10 Take-aways
Throughout the entirety of history, humankind and a large part of the knowledge systems created by it, such as philosophy, literature, medicine, and psychology, have been looking for the most effective way of ridding people of their suffering. But most often the sources of our suffering are found in the world around us and the blame for our dissatisfaction falls on people, places, social institutes, the weather, fate, or even on politicians.
Still there is no single external factor that can cause us as much suffering as our own negative emotions, especially those that have become the main backdrop to our existence and our second nature. When facing these negative feelings we resist them and try to suppress them. We are so used to acting this way that we often fail to notice how it happens and gradually start resisting all our feelings.
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Basically, a stressed state is a reaction to potential threats to our well-being (real or imaginable). Even in a peaceful environment we are subject to chronic internal stress because all the emotional tension we have accumulated over the course of life continuously seeks a way out. External factors merely allow this energy to manifest itself[1].
In a paper dedicated to body’s response to stress, Dr. Hans Selye and Dr. Walter Cannon describe stress as a "general adaptation syndrome". Our body responds to stressful stimulus by going through several stages sequentially:
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