This thread is an extension from a previous thread titled, Identity vs Reality.  But as we venture into a different area of Deep Thoughts, I thought I might start a new thread.

Love your response... Seeing as we agree I hope you can forgive me as I pontificate a bit on my favorite topic ....

All of our feelings NEED our attention and in my explorations I have found that each emotion responds directly to an element. Trying to keep this short I will go a few steps with one element and we can talk about the other elements later if someone would like to.

Anger is FIRE. Mismanaged FIRE is destructive painful, dangerous, especially in the hands of the intentionally ignorant or mischevious.... Yet when used for cooking it is seen as more than useful, it is necessary and is especially loved by those who are educated in using the Fire for cooking. Cooking is a step above Burning.

Every element could easily be identified as a tool. Just think of all the things we do with FIRE. Now what good is FIRE if we don't have AIR? It is useless, you get the idea. The better educated we are of each of the elements and how they work together the better we can use FIRE. . Even when the elements appear to be destructive, together they build LIFE. They need each other to build life

Each of our emotions comes out of an element. Every emotion like every element is totally interconnected to the other and depends on the whole for their creative ability. Each interacting with each other in what appears to be a sort of force of balance.

If we have a preference for any element / emotion to the degree of excluding the others we will assuredly show up in a condition that often gets identified as disease. Our conditional personalities find this undesirable effect is often accompanied with pain. That condition which we spend so much time trying to stop, is a beautiful process thats keeping balance. Like a forest fire could be to an imbalanced forest.

The mass of human un-consciousness for generations has been promoting the exclusions of certain emotions because of what they are often accompanied with in their arrival onto the scene. But how are we going to learn to use them if they are not allowed to be just what they are in their infant stages.

Anger is not Negative.... it is simply un-evolved yet still very embraceable. Anger is baby growing up to be Passion.... Those who have never embraced their Anger shall never know their Passion.

I often think: I require no solid reason to be happy , and yet when I am sad or angry I seek constant and concrete reasons for the feeling followed quickly by the desire to come up with a solution for said emotions. Is this Right? On the one hand- feelings of sadness or anger aren't exactly pleasant... and so like pain- is it not an indication that something is not quite right in the world? There for having this search for cause/effect/solution is exactly right. However, there can be a sense to this search that somehow these emotions are "wrong" and require a solution to eradicate them. Wouldn't that advocate a need to embrace and accept these emotions that perhaps have an even stronger meaning in our lives than the pleasant ones? isn't is OK to Just Be Upset some days- just like its OK to Just Be Happy?- requiring no further reaction other than simple expression? It is a delicate balance of acceptance and rejection. Quote from Kena

Yes Yes Yes... Happy or better called GLAD is one of the five emotional centers, It comes from the element of AIR. Ahhhh, the freedom of AIR. The easiest to bond with in our physical body. We don't even have to think about it. Every time we return to center we naturally take a breath.

With out the other 4 emotions though GLAD can be just as dysfunctional as MAD. But it is easy to hang out with GLAD. GLAD will not rock the boat, or complain, or try to change, if it is a risk to the comfort.

AIR/GLAD does not change anything by itself, FIRE/MAD changes everything if given the chance. At the chance of change which often means possible discomfort, well we are going to question the hell out of that especially if we are COMFORTABLE with how it is at the moment. So that angry part of you gets sent back to the shadows as it always wants things to change.

There are millions of people out there who are happy with their miserable situations and just don't want things to change.

The immature state GLAD is all about personal COMFORT. We all stay in some form of ignorance because it is comfortable. It often looks like stubbornness. Just examine for a minute how many people you know who are HAPPY with their stubbornness even though it is a pain to themselves if not to most every one else who has to deal with them when they are in it.

Our obsession with comfort is the reason it is so hard to shift our consciousness. How many clients have you given a few simple steps to change their conditions yet they just couldn't get themselves that uncomfortable to take the walk out of their cage and to this day they have the same condition?

Our strong desire for GLAD is the way we are designed into nature, and rightly so. As we become more conscious of being a WE, instead of a me, and take every step inclusive of the WHOLE, then GLAD is a great center to return to because when it matures it is where HEALING happens.

GLAD is the baby and HEALING is what GLAD grows up to be. Healing is not a doing thing in any way, it is a state of BEING PRESENT and Consciously Connected and is a necessary part of the circle.

Inclusiveness is the key and the best education is always Experience.