Realm Introduction: The Realm of Emotions

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*Disclaimer: I’m not an established scientist nor philosopher as of yet. I’m just a trying to find my way in the world based on how I see it.

Cultivating one’s soul in the The Five Realms of Humanity should be based around the ‘real’.

‘Real’ as in things that are observable and that have consequences.

Something could be intangible and incorporeal, yet be ‘real’ – like the soul.

Yet…one of the most ‘human’ things in the human existence is ‘emotion’; with basic emotions as the building blocks, more complex ones permeate various aspects of our everyday lives.

Morals, virtues, values, rules, societal expectations, etc. all in some part come from the collective emotions and feelings of the whole. Although the ‘Emotion’ realm can seem quite ‘complex’ when thinking about the entirety of emotions, let’s keep it simple to just the confirmed basic ones:

Anger, Disgust, Fear, Happiness, Sadness, and Surprise

Paul Ekman (one of my spiritual mentors) defines these as the most basic emotions that people recognize without having to be taught, regardless of culture, background, etc. Essentially, regardless of where you come from, as long as you are conscious as a human being and without mental defects, you will be able to understand at least these six emotions.

Humans are mammals and I haven’t heard of a mammal that could NOT express these six emotions.

Things do become more complex when it comes to human-to-human emotional interactions. From my observations, here is what I know of how souls and their vessels coincide in the Emotion Realm (ER):

-These basic emotions are linked to your vessel’s instincts; If a ‘human’ were to be able to be animate without a soul, these basic emotions would be all that would be available to the vessel as a mammal (more on this in a future blog post).

-Mood = passive, Soul = active, Emotions = reactive; the predisposed ‘mood’ your vessel exists in is perceived by others first while your ‘soul’ is there to actively regulate your actions. When an event happens, unless your soul’s will is stronger, your vessel’s emotions will ‘react’ first.

-I believe the concept of the ‘heart’ is an easy visualization tool learned by humans to understand the interaction between ‘emotions’ and its effects on physiology. Different heart palpitations (think BPM) are linked to different emotions, but all emotions originate in the same part of the brain. Therefore the ‘heart’ is just a symbol that represents this.

-The soul does not necessarily care about ‘emotions’, but vessels and ‘humans’ do. That’s my speculation as to why the ‘will’ can be considered as ‘divine’, yet emotions as ‘disposable’.

-Empathy is the ability to understand and ‘feel’ the emotions of others. The research is out on whether empathy happens actively or passively (it’s both tbh), but how I separate them is by saying for ‘being empathetic’ = active and ‘empathetically’ = passive. ‘Empaths’ (like me) feel others’ emotions, feel them strongly, AND this cannot be turned off (at least not easily). It doesn’t mean they ‘get’ how feelings and emotions work, they just feel them like the person in front of them beyond their control.

I’ll come clean – ER is probably my weakest area as of now. If my speculations are correct and ‘depression’ fog messes with the soul’s ability to enact it’s will through the vessel, then these base emotions have nothing to check itself against; the vessel will just do what its own self wills. Maybe simpler depression cases may only affect the ER and more serious ones affect overall mood states.

What I do know what is true for myself is that my Existential Depression (ExD) affects my ‘anger’ -> when my will isn’t strong enough, this ‘anger’ transforms into mood states such as ‘fury’ and ‘agitation’ -> once my mood state is affected, all of my other realms follow subconsciously -> when my will is strong enough again to realize that my mood state has changed to a ‘negative’ one (read: a mood state that leads to undesirable consequences for the vessel and/or the soul), I take steps to change my mood back to ‘complacent/neutral’.

I’m not sure how it works for everyone who struggles with anxiety and depression, but I’ve heard first-hand and seen in research that this experience is typical for many in depressive episode onsets. For now, just see which of the six emotions you personally tend to experience the most. Then, ask others about how what mood you seem to be in when around them to see if their perception matches what you consistently feel.

I’ll do my best to stay as unbiased as possible and try not to slack on blog posts related to the ER. In time you’ll learn the lengths I’ve gone to understand human emotion while discovering that I’m an empath. For now, I’ll leave it here.

Thanks for reading always,

Snowfield Rhapsody

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