Isabelle Question #10

 

Hi Joshua,

I came across this wheel of emotions. It was created by psychologist Robert Plutchik's diagram of emotions. Sometimes when you are in the thick of it, in an emotional state, reaching for the next highest emotion would be helpful. To have a cheat sheet of sorts would be great. For example, if you are feeling isolated, what would be the next rung of that emotion? Inclusive? Is that the next emotion? Is interested to the next emotion would that be engagement? Sad to Lonely? Does empty jump to fulfilled? Or is there a few states in between? LOL, I hope you are getting what I'm asking.

Isabelle,


Dear Isabelle,

We feel that this is an excellent tool and it describes the is a range of intensity within each emotion. You could say that the diagram demonstrates the degrees of intensity of the limiting beliefs that are based on certain specific fears. For instance, hatred is far more intense than anger, which is far more intense than apathy. So let's look at how this all works out.

When you feel an intense negative emotion such as hatred, it points to a highly limiting belief that is based in a fear that is quite intense itself. If you are able to analyze the fear and prove to yourself it is false, then the intensity of the fear is reduced along with the limiting belief and now you may simply feel angry. Rather than reaching for a betterfeeling emotion such as anger, you do the work to analyze the fear and the result of your work is the diminishment of the fear and so you naturally just feel anger, or quite possibly you simply feel apathy, or with enough work you find relief.

We would draw a similar diagram with the center split in two (horizontally). The top portion of the circle would contain the word "ease," and the bottom would contain the word "relief." As you boiled down all positive emotions on top, you would start with the emotion of ease, which would create an environment of allowing. Love-based emotions would all spring outward in varying degrees of intensity from ease, to fun, to joy, to ecstasy, etc. All the negative emotions would boil down to relief, which would also create an environment of allowing. Therefore, the reduction of all negative emotions would lead to a feeling of relief. Is there any better feeling? Maybe only the feeling of ease.

The idea is to reduce the intensity of limiting beliefs and fear by analyzing the fear, realizing it's irrational, proving it's false, and choosing a higher perspective. Each time you do this work, you reduce the limiting effects of the belief or fear and so you feel better and better each time it arises until you eventually feel relief. When it comes to positive emotions, you can increase the intensity of the beneficial beliefs that are supported by positive emotion. You can reach for joy, when you simply feel ease. The more you reduce the intensity of limiting beliefs and raise the intensity of beneficial beliefs, the more enhanced your experience of life will become.

Imagine the practical approach of feeling hated and then reaching for an softer negative emotion such as anger. What are you really doing? You are processing the fear at the basis of the belief. You are looking at the situation from a higher perspective. One might call it reaching for a better-feeling emotion, while we would take that idea a step further and actually do some work to analyze the emotion, get to the fear, figure out the limiting beliefs, find out how the manifestation event is beneficial, and then choose a higher perspective. It's really the same thing, yet we've defined an actual process that makes logical sense given what you know about the laws of the universe and the mechanism of physical reality. Had Robert known what we know and what you now know, he might have added another layer to his diagram.

With our love for your ability to help us reach even higher vibrational thoughts and ideas,

We are Joshua

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