Oh, I have recently written much text again. I tend to write long. Since I want more time to spend on other things (especially for cycling), I will write this article briefly.
Today, I will talk about how to name emotions healthily.
How to calm our emotions
Sometimes, we want to calm our emotions down. Intense empathy often makes us lose our control of emotional thoughts.
A typical example is past emotions. Something makes us remember our past failures with negative emotions, such as anger, sadness, loneliness, shame, envy, or regrets. We can hardly avoid them and drive them away from our minds.
People sometimes call this phenomenon flashbacks. It is one primal problem that our mental complex causes. We want to solve it.
How to name emotions efficiently
To solve this problem, I have recently introduced the logic of empathy and logical sense. Cultivating logical sense can limit the activity of empathy. In other words, logic can deal with emotions.
The key step to process our emotions is naming emotions. Since our logical sense cannot recognize feelings, naming each emotion allows logical sense to manage it logically.
However, we sometimes struggle with identifying the name of an emotion.
Today, I will explain how to name emotions healthily. This logic might allow you to process your emotions efficiently.
Two points to name emotions
Identifying the name of the emotion is the gateway to processing emotions logically.
It would be effective to pay attention to the following two points:
- You can give nicknames for your emotions. As long as you identify individual emotions, you can call it by any name.
- Avoid using imagination to think logically. An example is imagining an ideal person and receiving advice.
Let’s look at why below.
Giving nicknames
First, you can give nicknames for your emotions. In other words, you don’t need to guess the emotion’s exact name.
For example, emotions often include conflicts. We sometimes experience mixed emotions, such as sadness with a little anger or loneliness with a feeling of envy. Some emotions are contradictory and confusing.
These emotions tend to be difficult to describe with a single word.
In such a case, giving nicknames would help. As long as you identify individual emotions, there is no problem.
The purpose of naming is to deal with them logically, not about guessing the universal names of emotions. Every name is fine, ‘Jack,’ ‘Emily,’ even ‘X’ or ‘this strange one.’
However, we have to avoid giving a double name. If we name an emotion ‘Jack,’ we have to identify it next time.
An example of poor naming
If we don’t specify the name, the logic will break. That takes us away from reality or makes us afraid of emotional movements.
For example, imagine a person who always describes his emotions with only a single word, ‘annoying!’ Every time his mind is upset, he only says ‘annoying’ with an angry expression.
We can soon guess that such a person is always irritated. Sometimes, he cannot recognize even pleasure. This is because he treats all his mental disturbances as ‘annoying.’
If we bundle all our emotions together, we tend to judge that all feelings are unnecessary. It makes us try to ignore and suppress all emotions. That prevents us from logical processing.
This is why mentally unhealthy people often want to be emotionless. They fear all emotional movements. The poor ability to name emotions causes a desire for emotionlessness.
Avoiding using imagination
Let’s look at the second point of naming emotions.
By the way, we could have a mental problem even if we give emotions a nickname: a multiple personality.
People with it treat their inner emotions as personalities. They name each personality, like ‘John,’ ‘Nancy,’ ‘Max,’ or something. Although they named and can identify each emotion correctly, they still struggle with their mental complexity. Why does this happen?
The logic of empathy and logical sense can explain it.
That is the second point: avoid using imagination to think logically.
Examples of broken logics in spirituality
Logical thinking doesn’t require imagination.
In spirituality, there is a wrong way to try to gain logic through imagination.
An example is imagining an ideal person and receiving advice. It can be a real advisor, but also imaginary concepts, such as an inner god, akashic records, religious saints, angels, or an alien connected through spiritual channeling.
We don’t have to rely on them. It is because we have logical sense. Why do we have to use empathy to think logically? It is pointless.
It is the same as the example of subordinates. We have two subordinates: empathy and logical sense. We don’t have to say, “Hey Miss Empathy, tell Mr. Logical Sense to solve this problem.” We can just ask him directly if we have something to ask him.
Avoiding unhealthy approaches
Perhaps that is why we—logical people—cannot believe these channelers’ words. We feel they are mentally unhealthy. They explain logic, but these explanations are based on imagination. Why do they have to apply such imaginations to find logic?
It is not only unhealthy but also entirely irrational. When we explain logic, we have to exclude unnecessary, fickle factors as much as possible, such as imagination, values, trends, beliefs, or even common sense. Logic is something based on rationality. Adding unnecessary imagination or decorations is illogical. In other words, their behavior is unreasonable at the very beginning.
It is the same as the mental problem of multiple personalities. Their logic is based on empathy. It is not logic. It never calms our empathy down. It is harmful.
Logic never requires the authority of gods or great beings. Logic is persuasive even without such influential powers. In other words, it is a behavior of unreasonable people who have a mental complex and want to pretend to be logical.
We don’t have to rely on imagination for logical thinking. Logically speaking, logic is not a competition. We just say, “This is my current logic.” We can be logical, even if we are ignorant about this world. We can find a new logic by our experiences. That cultivates our logical sense and gives us the power to balance our intense empathy.
Conclusion
They are how to name emotions healthily.
There are two points. One is that we can give nicknames for our emotions. The other is to avoid using imagination to think logically.
This logic might allow you to process your emotions efficiently.
Thank you for reading this article. I hope to see you in the next one.
