(04-15-2015, 08:05 AM)Bluebell Wrote: [ -> ]me too, but lets say u took a betablocker... if wut u feared would happen but u weren't afraid... wouldn't it still hurt u?
Try to answer your own questions with depth rather than upfront honesty. Honestly, this world can beat you down. Honestly, there is horror even I flinch at... And honestly, there is Madness.
If you want to look at the face value of everything happening right here and now, you'll see a lot of things that don't actually make sense. It's a trap in my opinion, one that I like to call the
In-Plain Sight Issue. Unless you look for something, it's hidden in plain sight. I work at a gas station that has a microwave along one of its aisles at about 3 feet off the ground. Most people just assume we don't have a microwave, when they ask I tell them where it is. Blows their minds, it's within view within 40% of the store. I know where it is, I know my store has a raised roof, and that the outer brick wall also makes the edge of the glass window. A coworker who's been there for 15 years, never knew the ceiling was raised. She never looked up, never looked further than the face value of the store. For 15 years. I mentioned it one day, blew her mind, she told my GM who also didn't notice it for the several years he'd been there. I worked there less than a year and noticed all of these little things, because I looked.
So please, I don't think you, or anyone, deserves to suffer to such an extent as to make their own life hell. You should tell me the answer to your own question,
if what I feared did happen, but I wasn't afraid, could it still hurt me?
Personally, that's not a fair question to me. Of course it can possibly hurt me, I could have a brain aneurysm without warning, yet I'm not scared of it, but it could very much so kill me. I could walk outside right now and walk into dog crap and would it hurt me? No, maybe my feelings. Maybe I'd hurt myself more with how big of a deal I make out of it...I have done that before actually.
ACTUALLY, around last week I too was dealing with some very serious and severe negative emotions, Despair, Frustration, Hatred, Malice, Sadness, and Anxiety, I call it the Horror-core because I literally can feel pain when they're occurring in my chest at the green ray chakra. I almost actually committed suicide over just trying to figure out why I was suddenly feeling all of this. Like the OP actually said, it's almost like I was becoming lost in my own emotions as I tried to balance them. A torrential current of incredible depth of just Despair alone almost made me do it. Following suit with frustration, then hatred (tip: don't talk to certain people when you feel this...), then malice (tippitytip: REALLY don't talk to certain people when you feel this!) following suit with sadness. I haven't actually fully gotten through anxiety though. Where despair literally had me on the edge of a knife, Anxiety stopped me completely in my tracks. Slowly moving towards terror, I just decided to forgive it all instead of fully understanding it. That level of anxiety causes panic attacks in me. I don't get those, never have until last week dealing with that one emotion attached to a 5 year old self. I almost preferred Despair over Anxiety, it's not that the pain is different or more bearable, it's that with Despair I can still think and rationalize. When the anxiety kicked in, it's like the Mind literally freezes up, and it's not easy thinking with a frozen mind.
I think the most important aspect of it all though was putting it into perspective about where it all came from. Those emotions that were buried for 17 years resurfaced at my own call, and despite barely being ready for it, I got some help from a helpful guy named Garry (plenum healer ad on lawofone.info) who offered me some very helpful services in accepting the experiences and desiring for them to continue, who gave me answers that gave me the questions to find my answers.
When I'm in despair now, and I have been recently, I return to that furious and terrified and horribly depressed 5 year old. I stand next to him and apologize for not being able to do more. The fact that alone calms me down tells me I'm not too far from finally looking at that mirror and forgiving myself for not only bringing forth these very turbulent emotions at a very bad time, but also forgiving him and loving him for making it possible at all to experience any of this. Forgiving myself for being powerless and useless at a time when I could have used it. I offer mercy to myself basically, stop judging myself and start looking for a better Way!
That was really all I was trying to ever tell myself, look back, discover why, and forgive. Feeling it all in the present can really be a rough experience. However, I find that we can always look elsewhere when we find ourselves feeling trapped, stuck, or like we're losing it! Except in despair it took me a few times...
Recalling Ra's balancing guide,
Session 10 Query 14
Ra Wrote:Exercise One. This is the most nearly centered and usable within your illusion complex. The moment contains love. That is the lesson/goal of this illusion or density.
The exercise is to consciously seek that love in awareness and understanding distortions. The first attempt is the cornerstone. Upon this choosing rests the remainder of the life-experience of an entity. The second seeking of love within the moment begins the addition. The third seeking powers the second, the fourth powering or doubling the third. As with the previous type of empowerment, there will be some loss of power due to flaws within the seeking in the distortion of insincerity. However, the conscious statement of self to self of the desire to seek love is so central an act of will that, as before, the loss of power due to this friction is inconsequential.
Exercise Two. The universe is one being. When a mind/body/spirit complex views another mind/body/spirit complex, see the Creator. This is an helpful exercise.
Exercise Three. Gaze within a mirror. See the Creator.
Exercise Four. Gaze at the creation which lies about the mind/body/spirit complex of each entity. See the Creator.
The foundation or prerequisite of these exercises is a predilection towards what may be called meditation, contemplation, or prayer. With this attitude, these exercises can be processed. Without it, the data will not sink down into the roots of the tree of mind, thus enabling and ennobling the body and touching the spirit.
Then they also made a remark (which I'm having trouble finding) regarding how the nature of balancing these emotions can be handled. You allow the emotion to come forth, they used the word revving I believe, rev up the emotion that caused the blockage from an Open Heart to occur, let that emotion flow over you, then let it ebb away on its own, and it should if you aren't actively fueling the emotion with your mental activity (not stopping thinking about something that angers you) then from there you balance it with the opposite positive emotion by invoking that to put the opposite end in perspective. (Actually I think it might have been Carla from her book Living the Law of One who used the word Revving, I'm drawing a big blank right now!)
Emotions are Energy in Motion (E-Motion)...The point here is emotions are--to me at least--also my responsibility to handle appropriately. I need to find a way to look at myself, understand I feel these things for a reason, a clear and concise reason to aid me in spiritually evolving. They're not fun or pretty, but they're still existent, still in Being.
And for that I love those negative emotions that drive me into the ground. They might hurt me, but ultimately I am still Learning, Loving, and Being even as I feel detached, broken, and destroyed. It's your perspective that creates your view of reality more than anything else at this very moment. What's his name...Jobe? The guy who God and Satan made a deal over to test his faith. He should have been utterly, absolutely miserable by the time the two of them were done ruining his life to prove a point. Jobe took it all with a perspective of faith. He went through hell but maintained a bit of positivity (even as the extremes began, like his family dying, his livestock dying, losing his everything, almost dying...) and in return God rewarded him by giving him back everything he used to have and more (semantics, the story leaves room for much negative interpretation against God, I'm providing my own here).
I think the story tries to tell us that we should have faith in those moments where we absolutely question it (never thought I'd say that). In the times of despair, seek Love in the moment. Say it. Whatever you need to do to get your Complex to begin searching for that Love, holding that Faith and Belief in that Love, even as it apparently slips away and abandons you completely and utterly without remorse or mercy, hold on to it.
The Creation is Love. We suffer now, but to learn. How much longer? Is it really too long against the prospect of infinity? Is the negativity really wrong, or do we just understand it as wrong? All is As it Should Be.
I don't think anyone should be completely isolated when dealing with emotions like this. Although I don't really feel like I have anyone close enough to reveal such personal feelings to, just not being the only one holding it all in is enough.
I imagine I'm not alone in feeling, that sometimes I want to just go away to another place and leave Earth far behind. I imagine I'm also not alone in feeling, that I can't abandon my home.
...And I apologize for the lengthy post. I always seem to have a lot to say.