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We have a huge range of emotions of which half is defined as stress and half is defined as passion.  The ultimate “low” is when we are totally distressed. And, the ultimate “high” is when we feel total elation.  When totally stressed out, we tend to feel helpless, hopeless or worthless – three very horrible places to be as our stress-driven emotions tend to enslave our self-image.  When passion totally grips us, our self-image can become vulnerable to feelings of grandeur, invincibility or superiority.  Obviously, those extreme feelings are not what people look to as emotional states of mind to have for normal living.  Typically, we suffer stress and feel passion sometimes. The tendency, therefore, is for society to perceive stress as bad and passion as good.  For the purposes of this discussion, let’s look at stress and passion as feelings – without tagging them good or bad.  In fact, we are going to find out during this discussion that they are both good – our entire range of emotions are wonderful – for they are our radar system.  Just as the radar at an airport identifies the location, flight path and speed of incoming aircraft, our emotions act in a similar way to alert us to things that are happening in and around us that we might otherwise ignore.  Just as the military’s radar is used as an early warning system, our emotional range is our early warning system.  It is built with the notion that the earlier we identify and verify the reasons for the feeling, the better off we are.  Just like a blip on a radar screen, a feeling alerts us to something going on.  This early awareness gives us choices while we still have time for sound decision-making. Unfortunately, in our society, we hate/fear stress feelings so much that we do things to dull our senses so we don’t feel them. We drink, smoke, eat, medicate, party, sleep, watch TV, and search for recreational outlets in order to reduce or eliminate stress feelings.  In moderation, stress relief can be helpful, but getting at the source of the stress and resolving the issue causing the stress is best.  By resolving it, we gain confidence and we reinforce the usefulness of our stress emotions.  By honoring and using our stress we can identify problems before they become unmanageable. We then are able to live without frequent mood swings – and our life feels more stable and we are able to stay away from the typical stress relievers or addictions that tend to cause even more stress in the long run. Passion can work the same way, as the passion itself can begin to own us instead of rational decision-making.  Passion can make us vulnerable to creating a way of life in the pursuit of more and more “highs” – and creating a roller coaster of highs and lows emotionally instead of ever getting high enough.  Just like stress, if we do not honor passion and use it to understand our motives and their corresponding issues, we can become susceptible to artificial means to feel “high”, such as alcohol, drugs, sexual experiences, gambling and co-dependent relationships.  In both cases, with stress or passion owning us, we need to find someone or someway to pull us out of The Box - like hold that our emotions seem to have over us.  Once overwhelmed by our emotions, we have trouble using them as our radar system – we are owned by emotions instead of owning them. Remember - emotional reactions tend to take "rational choice" out of our decision-making and our behaviors and actions. Hence, we need to use emotions as a stimulus to "think before we act". Read the full article

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