The Dimension of Emotions

Emotions are our immediate reply to experience. Feelings are the honest, pre-verbal language of soul experience. Before the mind can label what has happened with words, feelings convey our uncensored, individual reaction. They reveal the raw, inner intelligence triggered by our circumstances. When emotions are acknowledged and honored, our inner experience is validated and our integrity and dignity are preserved. Out-front feelings may be considered politically incorrect, but they accord with our essence.

Like water in life systems, feelings are spontaneous movers and shakers of the energy body. If they are not repressed, they carry things from the unconscious mind to conscious mind, back and forth. They transmit and move information and energy around the human system so that all four elements communicate with each other. For example, after intuition sees a vision, a flow of emotion can move the body to act and the mind to evaluate.

Freely flowing emotions heal the body, provide energy, and create consciousness. They allow us to process and integrate new experiences and new information. Feelings create the possibility of balance, flexibility, and growth within the personality because emotions feel their way through what are otherwise insoluble problems and contradictions.

If we focus for a while (say 15 to 30 minutes) on the feeling within the body, even feelings that make us uncomfortable or feel horrible, the emotions spontaneously change and lose their charge as we process them.

But whenever feelings are judged and squelched because they are “irrational” or “effeminate” or “frightening,” we become dysfunctional, less than human. Rigidity, death, and disease predominate when there is a lack of emotional flow and vitality; elasticity, resiliency, and health thrive where there are no taboo emotions. Without conscious emotion we are mere robots ripe to be used as pawns in the power schemes of others.