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she’s baaacck….. hey folks! well… i am just sharing… it may be of usefulness… maybe not. maybe folks will have commentary.

it is all well and good to say, “don’t worry, be happy”… but how do you do that? are folks into the concept of changing your state of mind? if you believe that is possible, how do you do that and how does it work?

introduce new theory… ha! ...well who knows if its new… but i did just think it up, but it could be somewhere else. your processing power for directing and creating your reality is like your “car” for getting from one place to another. your emotions are like the gears of that car. (btw, my “car”, in this example, has an automatic transmission.)

rightly or wrongly, i feel all the emotions have a proper and functioning place in moving through the “gears” to get your car moving and to a final destination. some emotions seem better for speed and movement (say maybe joy, passion, contentment).

some seem to be for pause or change of direction like neutral or reverse (say doubt or fear/ caution)

some seem better for uphill power climbs; a lower gear, but that, i feel does not make them “bad” emotions. deep sadness, for example, is one i will often willingly choose to go into if i have some “big” issue i am not getting movement on with the “higher” gears: i need to go deeper and slower (this is a processing “power” gear… not speed) to really find, locate/ get to the blockage/ forgotten info.

sooo. how’s that transmission looking? are you changing gears to fit the situation you find yourself in? we all know every gear has a proper place… you don’t go down highways in 2nd gear, nor up mountains at 60 mph with a tow load. and life has mountains. i am sorry i find it hard to judge the emotions good/bad by looking at one and picking it out in particular and separate from the others (ex. anger)… it is just a gear in my transmission… maybe one i don’t use or travel along in very often, but it is a gear nonetheless.

[how many times do you shift through neutral to get to all the action gears like reverse or drive? it does not mean you have a love of neutral. to harp on this… i feel anger is just focused intensity misaligned (or misperceived). how many times have you just been passionate about something and someone thought you were “angry” and personally attacking them?]

your overall “average speed” (emotional state) is probably what people look at when they say, “you are happy” or “you seem down”. no one takes an average from the fact that you did go in reverse for a few minutes to get out of that parking space…

anyhow this is my latest “emotions” theory…. now how do we change our gears? how do we upshift and downshift as necessary to accomidate the changing landscape of our life and reality? anyone got any ideas? of course, i have a theory on that too! but i’ll see if there is any interest in this concept and/or if others feel any usefulness from this idea. (i mustn’t make overly lengthy posts!)

peace and love

darlyne