Unlocked Emotions

The human desire to open all thoughts and emotions with abandon to at least one love partner is irrefutable but, rarely experienced. Humans have an innate urge to love and be loved however, their fears from childhood of having ‘love abandoned’ on some level, follows like a shadow through life without the courage to face the fears and move into the mysteries of love with a deep trust. To go through life as an emotional cripple holding on to inner fears is to miss life’s real juice and potential.

The mind lives in fear when the heart hasn’t been nurtured fully. The mind locks itself as well as the heart for what it deems as protection from the unknown. The mind protects the heart often to a fault because of experiences that challenged it’s trust. Size, popularity, intellect, outward confidence, etc,. have little to do with the missing key to open the heart to share love with another who is likely conditional. Loving a child is far easier than loving an adult for, the child is entirely dependent on the adult for it’s survival.

To ‘lock another’ from freedom of expression is to be a jailor of every human right to be free. Man has found ways (some of them necessary) to lock the female from all interaction with the outside world. Today with unparalleled freedoms for millions of people, that behavior is reprehensible. People who are free in the outer world but not free inside from their fears are highly risky in love. People who have inner freedom are fully able to express that with another particularly in the rare case with one who is also with ‘unlocked emotions’ and void of fears.

To be totally vulnerable is to challenge the self in being exposed to trusting the others loving acceptance no matter what. That space is rarely ‘unlocked’ for anyone to come into but, is necessary to open for the full expression of love. Real love needs no commitment. Love thats locked up with fears demands commitment for security. Always it remains conditional. With few exceptions, people that meet in a passion are being real but soon the fears show up to lock out those moments of love that knows no boundaries. The love becomes what I call ‘functional love’ with it’s ups and downs, fears and doubts. It’s a choice to unlock the flood gate and receive what comes flowing while throwing away the key to any return to safety. The irony is, it’s the only safe place to be.

Fear only fear, love only love - be on guard when it’s love mixed with fear!

Confidence and Self-Esteem

Confidence and Self-Esteem were best friends. They went everywhere together. If Confidence bought a new dress, Self-Esteem bought one just like it. They were very close.

One day a new kid came to their school. His name was Peer Pressure. He had a friend called Hateful Words. They decided to give Confidence a hard time.

They constantly teased her. They forced her to do terrible things. It was so terrible that Confidence lost Self-Esteem. When Self-Esteem wanted to start some classes, Confidence said they wouldn't be any good.
Then one day, Peer Pressure introduced Confidence to Doubt. He wanted to ruin Confidence, but Peer Pressure said he couldn't yet. Self Esteem couldn't understand what was wrong with Confidence. Confidence now hung around with Depression, Low Self-Esteem, and Overeating.

These girls were friends of Peer Pressure. Self-Esteem no longer had any friends. She no longer felt good about herself. She went to see her Imaam. Imaam Good Words told her how to talk to Confidence. He introduced her to his daughter, Encouragement.

Encouragement and Self-Esteem went to find Confidence. Self Esteem hoped she wasn't too late. The girls found Confidence in a stupor. She was no longer a vibrant, happy young girl. There were dark circles under her eyes. She had gained so much weight from eating that she couldn't move.

Encouragement gasped and Self-Esteem cried. She begged Encouragement to do something.
Encouragement began to hug Confidence. She kissed her and loved her. She told her that she was a beautiful young lady who had a lot going for her.

Encouragement held Confidence so tightly that Self-Esteem thought she would smother her. Confidence began to cry. As she cried, she seemed to lose weight. Then a bright light suddenly glowed from Confidence and she began to smile.

Peer Pressure and his friends didn't like what Encouragement was doing and tried to attack her. They hit at her and pulled at her, but they couldn't pull her away from Confidence. Then Confidence began to speak.

"Get away from me, Peer Pressure. Take your friends and go. You no longer have any power over me." Confidence was now a glowing light. She and her friends made sure that Peer Pressure and his gang never bothered anyone in their town again.
If you feel that Encouragement is not your friend, then try to find Encouragement in yourself. Self-Esteem and Confidence will follow

Let's Start A War: A War of Kindness!

by Richard MacKenzie, UK

Wow it's a mad world - people killing and hating each other, children dying, communities becoming an alien concept and the new living to work attitude taking over.

What is happening?

And what can we do about it?

Mahatma Gandhi once said - "Be the change you want to see in the world."

Can we really start to make a change to this world by doing our bit?

Sure we can.

And this is exactly what I want to cover today in this article.

Imagine your head hitting the pillow tonight and that last thought going through your mind being one of fulfillment as you drifted off to sleep!

Want to know how you can make this a reality?

Then read on...

I want to get on to Random Acts of Kindness - something that I have mentioned before in other articles.

A Random Act of Kindness is exactly what it says it is.

What could you do today that would make someone else's day?

What could you change in yourself that would ultimately enrich the world around you?

Remember the greatest gift that you could give anyone is your time.

As I have said before - gifts can be brought, money can be earned, but your time can never be replaced.

Here are a few Random Acts of Kindness that you could achieve in order make someone else's day.

1. Share your smile with people! Sounds simple, but makes all the difference.

2. Tell a friend or colleague just how appreciated they are. Write and email or call and do it in person.

3. Buy a shopping basket of food and donate it to a homeless shelter or old persons home.

4. If someone has given you good service make sure that you commend them.

5. Plant a tree. I especially like this one as it makes sense, what with climate change.

6. Save your magazines and take them to the local Doctors office, homeless shelter, etc.

There are so many little things that you can do to help out others and to make yourself feel good on the inside.

So why don't you take today as an opportunity to make a change to yours and someone else's world?

Remember that a few seconds of your time, could mean the world to someone less fortunate than yourself.

Emotional Wheel

Life is like an unsolved puzzle. No one can define what life is because it is a very complex thing. Life is something that makes you happy and proud at times and makes you feel so low at times that you say to yourself, ”Why was I born?"

But whatever it is, it is real fun. In Life, in every moment, something new happens; something that you never expected, something that you were waiting from a long while to happen and something you were expecting to happen. It is a combination of happiness, sorrow, joy, love, anger, enjoyment, loneliness, fear, excitement and many other emotions. The definition of the word life can't be completed without using the word emotions. Some people work in emotions whereas others work with emotions.

So it's very important to understand how people are using their emotions. If they are letting emotions get control over them, then they'll be dragged by others and situations all the time. But, if he is controlling his emotions in a proper way, then no one will ever have control over him.

The way a person uses his emotions is what we call attitude. Someone has correctly said, "Your attitude determines your altitude in life". Attitude, as I already defined, is the way an individual uses his emotions and directly related to the psyche of a person.

Some people use their emotions in a positive way and some people do it in a negative sense. When people use emotions in a positive way we call it positive attitude and when they use it in a negative way we call it negative attitude. It's up to an individual to decide how he uses his emotions. Which way will you decide?

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Panic

People may panic when they are scared. By being faced with the unknown you grow immensely though. When panicking, people may become irrational though, thus they may be driven to harm themselves as well as others.

In the face of danger why do we fear communication? If communication can do anything it will help reduce panic.

Panic can be somewhat alleviated by full communication throughout it.

One

If we take away love our world would become a tomb. The world is and always will be all of our homes, however it is not in the same time and space as it was from a moment ago till know. Even as you are reading, this the world is changing. Not that much, because the only moment that exist presently is now. However the world is constantly in motion.

We are both the future and the past, and in essence there is really no present. It is so relevant, however until we believe that our problems will be the same. It is the belief in the unknown that is going to save us. Our ideas, which our so powerful that some of them, even become law.

That, above anything else is what we are all striving for. To be taken seriously. We are all confused individuals. The main problem is that we are all running around like a chicken with its head cut off. It is like being in a dream all your life and not being able to wake up. The further you go, the deeper you get.
That is until we see we are in a dream. Only then we are able to wake ourselves up. That is only one of the issues that we all have in common with each other. Hopefully we can all wake up as the real world is much more wondrous then our dream like trance.

However knowledge of this dream like state is not enough. It is like we all our sleeping but not knowing that you are, however many times we try to wake.

It is impossible to do so. The longer we are in this trance the more complex it will become. Look at human history or media, and how much good can you see. It is almost as if we are in an experiment that went terribly astray.

It is becoming so horrific, simple or complex, that it is difficult to understand unless you are deeply involved as well as interested in it.

So life is so abundantly joyous. Someone has to be braver than anyone else has been in a while. It is as you can lead a fish to water but you can’t make it swim to stay alive. Something like that has to occur by waking us all.

Hopefully this recognition will not take to much longer. We all need so much sleep it is ridiculous. However, we have to have abundant respect for life. As we all have to celebrate life, however temporally it is difficult to realize why.

Worry

Don't worry yourself to death. If you worry too much you can never be to sure. Worrying can really hurt yourself as well as others.

Life is too short to worry all the time. We should all have more fun in it, because if you really think about it that is what makes life worth living. We cannot take our obstacles as seriously as we do.
We will make it through all our obstacles. Some keys that would help us are to stay as calm and as friendly as possible.

When we are relaxed, we are able to work easier, then when tension is increasing. In emergent situations, as well as others, if we are calm there is a greater possibility we could overcome whatever obstacles we have found ourselves in.

The obstacles we find ourselves in portray the obstacles that are within ourselves. We always want to change our reality to better fit our needs. No matter if we are aware of it or not, our reality cannot and will not be in true alignment with ourselves.

This alignment is an extremely fragile way of thinking. Our realities do not always intersect causing conflicts, emotionally, physically, mentally and even spiritually.

Most of these conflicts are so easy to solve that we are not even aware of their existence. However there are some that cause so much discomfort that the price is insurmountably unthinkable.

Needless Worry

Worrying may have its time of value. But once the issue is resolved it shouldn't exist in your mind set anymore. It may seem needless to the listener, however it has to be respected. Its volubility is not diminished at all by the fact that the listener does not find it serious.
There is a point to everything. Some points are better left unsaud. This is because they have to be seen first and gone through before they are taken in.

Sad, but this is how some choose to learn, so you should respect this however hard it may be for you if you choose not to you will lose so much energy that is very valuable, and you will make yourself sick faster then necessary, which is unnecessarily the news.

Kindness

Everyone is in such a hurry. They have no time for themselves, let alone to be kind. Why?

The only thing you are rushing to, if you really think about it is your death. You don’t take care of yourself when things hurt you, on your body or otherwise. You die from pain, if not from stress.

Stress is the all time leading cause of death. It is very sad, because it is self-induced. It could always be alleviated if people just practice a very simple, but alien, step and that is the mystically of relaxation.

When your day just goes bad, stop for a moment and take a breath. Relax, Relax, And Relax.

Emotional Leads

Emotions lead to greatness, as well as destruction. Passion outweighs every obstacle known or unknown to us all.
Where there is life, there is always hope. Life is a magical and mystical journey. It is full of wondrous adventures as well as tragic failures.

You just have to hang on; as much, as well as long as you possibly are capable of. All the energy will come back to you as positive harmonic tendencies. These are able to create such knowledge in and of itself as the finest recourse that we all know and love. In essence, this belief is all we have as well as our life force is.
Thought and imagination are the greatest resource we all have. They are capable as well as they are getting us what we want as well as need. We all need freedom through all of time and space. However there are some thoughts that are so evil, you shouldn't really think about for they are capable of destroying all of time and space. However, they are defiantly not as powerful as the essence of life as we know, which is the most powerful for it the essential part and structure of life.

Humar

It is sort of funny how we take things so serious, however the more serious we take things, the more difficult all of it becomes. The more attention we pursue on anything, the more stressful we get and that leads to consequences beyond consequences. Nature knows this but with all our knowledge we can't totally grasp it; at least not all of us, however hard we try.

For this is probably the only chance in all time you have to have a good life, so take, it no matter what. You always have ro have fun, and do all you want in your life. However if you do not talk no one can tell if you are having fun. Wisdom only is received by interaction of what is on your heart.

So you have to be truthful.

Happiness Expressed

Happiness abundantly spreading throughout life is a good release of emotions. It becomes our lively essence. Keeping us young and playful is a terrific way of being.

Life, however, is so fragile in emotional expressions. It only takes one seed of misery to grow and create some conflicts to spoil life’s grand design.

Happiness

This feeling can only come one way. That is if you do not take your problem or anyone else's problem seriously. This sounds simple, but it is not. If anything look at the news and entertainment as a whole. What draws you in?

Happy people may, however it is only the tragedies of life that capture your attention. It is not that easy to stop unless you are ready to lose all your processions or maybe even your life.

What if there was a war no one ever talked about. This war was going on for decades, millennia, however long life existed. This eternal war got so embedded in the subconscious that no one knows about it, except a very small number

Emotions

Positive and negative emotional responses put great variety in every life that it touches. Sometimes though, it may get carried away as everything can.

Everything that exist has a way of working out for the best of the situation that it happens to be in. There are very few clear questions or answers to them.

Humor can improve many situations, if both entities involved are aware of it being present. Usually it relaxes any situation it gets introduced to.

Passion

Is passion good? Or is passion bad? No wonder we are all in a state of confusion. We all need to recognize that, not ignore it.

Only then can we solve our dilemmas. This is not new. It is very common, however
not always followed.

Would you like the future to have a future? Of course we all do. So why fight
battles that do not need to be thought. We should all just fight the fights that
need to be fought. The ones that can no be solved any other way. We all should
abide by this so forth encouraging the existence of life.

Fear or No Fear

There is a difference between acceptane and having no fear. For example you can
accept death but still fear dying. You even could fully except dying, for you
have been pronounced as dead, however you still fear it.

Fear of dying exist throughout life. People have this drive to stay alive. It
may be seen as fearing the unknown or just not wanting to give up.

Not wanting to give up on life is a more empowering view than fearing the unknown. It causes us to be open to all the possibilities that life has in store for us.

Tension Levels

Being tense in life is a give in. that is why we cannot sleep well unless we have no pressures. Although the fact is that we always have pressures in existence. We have to first accept that, then we are more likely to overcome that. For we all need sleep. To exist, as well, as to live the life we want to lead, sleep is essential.

For tension exists even when we perceive that it doesn’t, it is true that our perception is our reality, however it is not the full existence of dimensional aspect that we believe. So we have to really listen and not take it all in, if we could manage to do that.

Passion

Being passionate about something is not always a good thing. It can be very disruptive. It can even destroy things as well. Hopefully it will not lead to this destructive state. Passion needs to be somewhat controlled. Do not lose your temper when you are passionate, just realize that there are always more than one view points on everything.

Humorously Fearful

Fear is a very humorous emotion. It is a survival mechanism basically. At the same time too much fear, can prohibit growth as well as freedom. What makes you afraid in your youth does not produce the same emotional response as you age. In fact when you look at your fears as a youth you are astounded by the fact you had fear of that.

Humor in Fear

Fear is a very humorous emotion. It is a survival mechanism basically; however it prohibits growth as well as freedom; which is why a large amount of this terror or horror is ignored.

What manufacture being afraid in your youth does not generate fear as your wisdom accelerates. It is usually very humorous when you look fabricated this emotional response.

Fear is tied to the uncertainty of life quest of living. Without it, we would be very bored. All the fears we have promote our awareness as well as encourage our consciousness. We want to comprehend the thing that apprehends or alarms us into a state of panic, so it doesn’t scare us anymore.