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Active Reaction of Thoughts

DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
in General Banter

My experience has been that emotions could be active reactions of thoughts. It is easy to fall into confusion, to understand when and why you might react to one thing, but not to the other, as the memories linger — episodes of statements, observations, declarations, and actions.

Personally, it stems mostly from experience and upbringing. If you were raised in an environment where verbal assaults and physical gestures were rampant, who is to say that you will not act the same way when raising your own child? Most of the time, human beings are easily led by their own experiences. While it is true that genetics affect human behavior, it is even more affected by how a child is raised; environment is the foundational need, which provides a blueprint to how a child should be raised.

Read more here:
https://medium.com/@leonbasin/active-reactions-of-thoughts-beb11ad6a514#.tco2idtvs

Comments

  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator

    Well of course they are! You have a thought, and it raises emotions, which in turn provoke the direction of other thoughts.
    But remember all actions - mental verbal AND physical - are choices.
    Nothing is a result of itself.
    We choose the emotion by choosing what to think.

    "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." Viktor Frankl

    DhammikaBunksyagrDaltheJigsaw
  • DhammikaDhammika Veteran

    Or, as the Buddha put it succinctly:

    All actions are led by the mind. Mind is their master, mind is their maker. Act or speak with an impure state of mind and suffering follows as the cartwheel follows the foot of the ox.
    All actions are led by the mind, mind is their master, mind is their maker. Act or speak with a pure state of mind and happiness follows as your shadow never departing."

    Jeroen
  • JeroenJeroen Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter Netherlands Veteran

    My feeling is that an emotion usually comes from an interaction between a thought and an emotional tie of some sort... If you don't already have an emotional relationship with the object of your thought you generally won't get an emotional reaction.

  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator

    But you have to first perceive that emotional tie. You first have to make it. The emotional tie has already existed because of your perception.
    Your perception begins in your mind, when you evaluate.

  • BunksBunks Australia Veteran

    @LeonBasin said:

    While it is true that genetics affect human behavior, it is even more affected by how a child is raised; environment is the foundational need, which provides a blueprint to how a child should be raised.

    I have to disagree - every individual is different - you can not say that the environment has a greater effect on every person than their genetics.

  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator

    Actually, you can.

    Genetics is one thing; but outside influences, conditioning, treatment and attitude of others, such as siblings, school friends, teachers and of course, parents, are hugely effective. The combined force of this conditioning CAN be far greater than genetics.

    silver
  • lobsterlobster Veteran

    Good thread guys,

    The importance of body and speech to effect mind and emotions is part of their interdependence, body of mind ...
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-pritchard/yoga-nidra_b_1669005.html

    https://greatmiddleway.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/mantrayana-the-vehicle-of-mantra/

  • meteorshower01meteorshower01 Manila Explorer

    TWO WORDS

    Word Association

  • DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran

    Thanks so much for reading everyone! I really appreciate it:)

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