Emotions

Much is known about our emotions, or is it?

The game of Snooker relies on fifteen red balls, six coloured object balls, black, pink, blue, brown, green, and yellow and a white striker ball called the cue ball. All of the balls are required to be on the Snooker table to start the game with two players.

Emotions are in a strange way similar, with a subtle difference. All emotions are required to be off the table, meaning within our mind and available at a moments notice. Only brought to the table when an external stimulus has been received.

What are Emotions

An emotion is a psychological thought process, first an internal then an internal or external response to an exterior stimuli, (to our liking or not) invoking positive or negative thoughts and connected body chemical reactions. this Places us in a position of being comfortably or uncomfortably in control of our actions.

The Unknown part:

What we, it seems, cannot comprehend, is how Trauma (s) that bring on an emotive response (when speaking of trauma it is always meant in the plural, meaning many) affect us, we cannot know how they affect our attitude, our thinking even our body language. Let alone how our body’s two thousand or so chemicals and hormones are affected. The desire of the body is always to maintain a balance. Even in imbalance, the Mind has balanced the bodies chemicals and hormones. The body, cannot, under these circumstances be, detoxified.

What happens next?

Our mind tries to make sense of what has happened to us. Relative to the power (strength) of the trauma we begin the process of an insidious change. Firstly, with the thought in our mind - I do not want to go through that again. Put it to the back of our mind, we are told - this changing process - if the emotive response is negative - will be continuous for the rest of our lives. In other words the emotive changes made are to protect us during the course of our lives from the same thing happening again, relative to the changing demands life seems to place upon us.

Protestations "1 do not want to go through that again" did not go through my mind are of no value, This phrase are my words, somehow using some other or similar words this phrase DID go through every persons mind that is ill or in pain.

Even if the experience is positive it will affect our body chemistry for the rest of our lives

Put it to the back of our mind

We do not seem to hear this statement so much these days. In years gone by that is precisely what we were told, was it safe to do that, can we actually forget a trauma by taking such seemingly harmless action. If we cannot, what about the chemical secretions. Today the message is” You have got to move on.” If we could move on would we really need to be told!

The answer to this conundrum is most definitely no. For the more we try to tuck the trauma away in the depths of our mind; the more active it remains for the rest of our life, always adjusting the (negative) secretions of our body chemicals/hormones to ensure a balance (to the mind and body its chemicals/hormones are always balanced even if science say they are not) is maintained.

These adjusted chemicals are always destructive, for there is no part of the mind or body these now toxic chemicals cannot reach.

End Product of emotive trauma

New and science defying pains/illnesses. Pains that cannot be seen by new technology, pains that are a real as the nose on ones face, even when, accident or surgery has removed a part of the body….Once emotions have been brought to the table in this way it is impossible for us to put them away - back in snooker table pockets - without specialised assistance

Emotions

Fear, anxiety, inadequacy, tiredness, aggression, anger, jealousy, bitterness, resentment and hatred seem to be the main emotions involved but there are many others, some we may not even recognise as emotions. One of them is Perception; without doubt is the most destructive of all emotions. Without Perception we cannot do or think anything In pursuit of organising and running our lives?

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