Perhaps for some of you this letter will be nothing new, but for me it was an aha-moment. I used to think that a thought is a thought, emotion is an emotion, a physical sensation is a sensation. And while thoughts and sensations were very clear for me and I could tell what was a thought and what was a sensation, emotions were kind of hard for me to explain or point at. They were like an ambiguous cloud that came on you and your clarity was lost for a while.
Hi Ali, nice explanation of emotion, I arrived pretty much to the same conclusion. Behind every emotion is thought. Emotion itself can trigger more thoughts (that's how we tend to spiral). Here's the thing though, (anxious) thoughts need to root themselves in the body and display themselves as discomfort to have any importance, and that's how they convince yourself they are real. If you remove the physical sensation of an emotion, all that's left is a meaningless thought. Practising allowing the emotional sensation to run its course will weaken the grasp that thoughts have on us until we see through their illusion.
Emotion formula
Hi Ali, nice explanation of emotion, I arrived pretty much to the same conclusion. Behind every emotion is thought. Emotion itself can trigger more thoughts (that's how we tend to spiral). Here's the thing though, (anxious) thoughts need to root themselves in the body and display themselves as discomfort to have any importance, and that's how they convince yourself they are real. If you remove the physical sensation of an emotion, all that's left is a meaningless thought. Practising allowing the emotional sensation to run its course will weaken the grasp that thoughts have on us until we see through their illusion.