Emotional Mindfulness

We all go through different kinds of emotions in a day...obviously the degree to which each one of us go through varies.....and again they are not subject to reason but may be immediately subject to action...probably these emotions that we go through everyday gathers and lifts us up and this is perhaps the highest morality we can instill...at the same time some emotions don't make a lot of noise, its hard to hear pride ...saying this reminds me of what my sister told me couple of days back....this is how it goes..."Read your blog to mom ( about Mother's Day) and she started crying"...I knew that when I was writing the blog about my mom I was emotional and in tears but when heard my feeling at that time was a deeper truth, lead me astray!

And having said that and coming to think of it, I question to myself "What are emotions"? Emotions are energy that we feel in our bodies as physical sensations. Each of us feels our emotions differently, and each of us learned to put names to the various physical sensations that are caused by the energy of our emotional state. In modern times the subject of emotion has become part of the subject matter of several scientific disciplines-biology, sociology, anthropology etc. An interesting phenomena is that when we put ourselves mentally into a person or situation, we experience the emotions of that person more strongly....Purpose of emotions: they certainly have significant effect on us...but what is it all for? .....may be connect good emotions and eliminate the bad ones, signals telling you something about what is happening in the inner you....emotions will not go away, but we can learn to manage them. We all have emotions, and we must deal with them, but we cannot trust them! Why? because emotions are our greatest enemy. More than anything, Satan uses our emotions against us to keep is from walking in the spirit. We know the mind is the battlefield-the place where the battle is waged between the spirit and the soul. I have read that when emotion pulsates, the mind becomes deceived, and conscience is denied its standard of judgment. Emotions urge us towards haste.

Therefore "To me, there are three things we all should do everyday. We should do this everyday of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh everyday. Number two is think. You should spend sometime in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special" as quoted by Jim Valvano!