Recently, I have created new logic to improve our lives from the perspective of empathy and logical sense. Now, I am evaluating that logic in my life. Thankfully, my mind is getting stable gradually.
Honestly speaking, this logic is amazing. It is more effective than any other methodology.
Then, I noticed one thing. It might be unnecessary to identify the emotion’s name exactly in the beginning stages. Today, I will talk about it.
How to calm down uncontrollable emotions
Sometimes, we want to calm down our uncontrollable emotions. Intense empathy causes it.
Typical examples are flashbacks and worries about the future. Although they are opposites in terms of the past and the future, both are the same in our inability to manage our emotions.
Cultivating logical sense would help solve that problem. Rational judgment calms the emotions down. Empathy also stops intensifying emotions.
To process those emotions, I suggested a way: naming them. If we name them, we can process logically.
The difficulty of naming
However, it has a problem. Discerning its name is too difficult. We often cannot identify its name, especially if we are confused.
It doesn’t take shape. Anger quickly turns into sadness and can also transform into loneliness and helplessness. Perhaps you know this difficulty if you have experienced it.
I recently realized that it might be unnecessary to identify its name exactly. Understanding the direction and degree of emotional strength may be effective. It worked at least for me. Today, I will explain that logic. This might allow you to calm your mind more easily.
An alternative to naming
We could process emotions logically just by their direction and degree, even without naming them.
The direction and the degree are as follows:
- The direction: Whether the emotion tenses or calms the body.
- The degree: How strong it is.
In the initial stages of calming intense empathy, it might be more effective than naming.
There are no problems as long as we can logically understand emotions. It is enough to grasp their existence and individual nature.
The purpose of emotion
If we can understand the body’s condition, that is enough for us. The body’s stress causes all emotions.
The purpose of emotion is to inform consciousness of the body’s strain. The kind of emotion itself is unimportant because it is merely a past reference. The main goal is to urge consciousness to decide how to deal with the stress: activate or ease the body.
It is the same as giving a nickname. There is no problem as long as we can identify its type and process it logically.
Simple emotional understanding
This makes it far easier to calm emotions because we can also deal with confusion.
Although they are a little rough, we can give an identifier depending on its strength, as follows:
- (The strongest tension) Confusive tension: For example, we have strong muscle tension and concentration on the emotion.
- Strong physical tension
- Persistent mild tension
- Persistent mild relaxation
- Strong physical relaxation
- (The strongest relaxation) Confusive relaxation: For example, the urge to cry that loses muscle power.
In almost all cases of anxiety or flashbacks, it will be an emotion that strains the body. All that remains is to understand the degree of their stress.
If we can do it, logical sense will naturally determine how to treat the body.
In my case
This gave me a simple way to handle my emotions.
For example, in my case, when uncomfortable emotions arise, I feel the state of my body. In most cases, my body is stiff.
If I recognize it, I can ask my logical sense, “Why do I have to strain my body so much?”
In many cases of flashbacks and worries toward the future, I can conclude, “There is no need to make my body this nervous. I have tasted them enough. I shall relax, at least now.”
That logical decision eases my empathy and my body’s stress.
Of course, it could be different types of stress. Examples are the physical stress that seasonal temperature fluctuation causes, overeating, or lack of sleep.
Although we sometimes experience such irregularities, if we can hand the emotion to our rationality, it will naturally provide the solution.
Changing interpretations of the past
As our logical sense develops, we can change our interpretations of the past and the future.
In other words, we cannot interpret the past as long as we don’t cultivate our logical strength.
Imagine that our brain resources are allocated to empathic processing and logical processing. It is like a memory of a computer. If we have too much empathy, about 95% of our brain resources are occupied by it.
In this state, logic cannot perform accurately. That is why it is difficult to identify the exact names of emotions.
The path to the harmonious mental state
Although it can be rough at first, we can increase the resources allocated to logic as long as we can judge rationally.
If it reaches about 20%, we will calm ourselves down.
30% will become detached from meaning. We will no longer have uncontrollable emotions.
40% will allow us to interpret the past and the future moderately. We can balance between the past, present, and future.
If we reach 50%, we will have natural harmony and show our individuality to the fullest.
Although I am still cultivating my logical sense, that is my prediction.
Conclusion
It might be unnecessary to identify the names of the emotions exactly.
Understanding the direction and degree of emotions may be effective.
It might allow you to calm your mind more easily.
Thank you for reading this article. I hope to see you in the next one.
