The Joy of Understanding Emotions: The Way to Master Life - Softcover

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9781504313056: The Joy of Understanding Emotions: The Way to Master Life

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Emotions are an important part of who we are and how we navigate through life. Unfortunately at times, emotions are so powerful that they will often hijack the decision-making process for us during every stage of life, rendering us helpless—or so we think. The good news is that there are ways to take back control of the emotions that have been living our lives for us. In a guidebook to understanding emotions and their impact on our lives, IM Joy begins by sharing a story about Rosa, a woman broken in every way after enduring a divorce. After Rosa realizes she is being lived by her negative emotions, she slowly begins transforming her existence by understanding her feelings, releasing them, and then learning how to live differently. As Joy continues with an alphabetically presented emotions reference list, she provides a definition of each emotion followed by the key to either understanding, overcoming, appreciating, or replacing the emotion with a more positive one, offering all of us hope that we too can transform our lives to create a better future. The Joy of Understanding Emotions shares a poignant story and a roadmap of emotions that will help guide anyone to defeat negative emotions by understanding their nature and effect.

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The Joy of Understanding Emotions

The Way to Master Life

By JM Joy

Balboa Press

Copyright © 2017 Anu Gandhi
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-5043-1305-6

Contents

An Appeal, xiii,
Acknowledgement, xv,
Introduction, xvii,
Emotions reference book,
A,
Abundance, 3,
Addiction, 4,
Amazement, 5,
Anger, 5,
Anxiety, 6,
Attachment, 7,
B,
Blame, 9,
Blessing, 10,
Belief, 10,
C,
Change, 12,
Compassion, 12,
Compromise, 13,
Complaint, 13,
Confusion, 14,
Conscious, 15,
Conscious Living, 15,
Concern, 16,
Culture, 16,
D,
Death, 17,
Debate, 18,
Denial, 19,
Depression, 19,
Desire, 21,
Disappointment, 21,
Doubt, 22,
E,
Ego, 23,
Emotion, 24,
Empathy, 25,
Envy, 26,
Excitement, 26,
Expectations, 27,
F,
Faith, 28,
Failure, 28,
Fear, 29,
Forgiveness, 30,
Frustration, 31,
G,
Gratitude, 32,
Grief, 33,
Growth, 33,
Guilt, 34,
H,
Habit, 35,
Happiness, 36,
Hate, 37,
Hope, 37,
Hurt, 38,
I,
Imagination, 40,
Inferiority Complex, 40,
Insecurity, 41,
Intention, 42,
Intellect, 43,
Irritation, 43,
J,
Jealousy, 45,
Judgement, 46,
K,
Karma, 47,
L,
Lonely, 48,
Love, 49,
M,
Mind, 51,
Mistake, 52,
Mood, 52,
N,
Need, 54,
Nervous, 54,
O,
Observation, 56,
Obsession (Obsessive thoughts), 56,
P,
Passion, 58,
Patience, 58,
Peace, 59,
Pity, 60,
Prayer, 61,
Pride, 62,
Problem, 63,
R,
Rage, 64,
Regret, 65,
Rejection, 65,
Remembrance, 66,
Responsibility, 66,
S,
Self-Pity, 68,
Shame, 68,
Solace, 69,
Sorrow, 69,
Stress, 70,
Struggle, 71,
Success, 72,
Suffering, 72,
T,
Thought, 74,
Torture, 75,
Trust, 76,
V,
Vulnerability, 77,
W,
Want, 78,
Wisdom, 78,
Worry, 79,
Chapter 1, 81,
Chapter 2: Anger and Fear, 84,
Chapter 3: Anxiety – The Race against Time, 88,
Chapter 4: Change is Growth, 92,
Chapter 5: Desire or Resist, 96,
Chapter 6: Need Vs Want, 100,
Chapter 7: Pray for Peace, 103,
Chapter 8: Right and Wrong, 109,
Chapter 9: A life changing affirmation, 113,
Chapter 10?, 116,


CHAPTER 1

A

Abundance

Abundance is a power tool that can manifest anything in life. It can also be called the "transformer" that transforms the feelings/images to reality.


The Key

What would you say if you were asked to name the first thing that you can relate to abundance? Most answers will relate to materialistic things or "money." It's a shame to relate abundance to material things. The real meaning of abundance relates to your emotional state. It's how you feel about the material aspect of your life. When you feel big about any aspect of your life, it starts to expand. Because your positive feelings allow the flow of abundance. Abundance is not about possessing, because possession means storage that narrows space. You must allow the space for abundance to flow and the space can only be created by sharing and being positive about receiving.


Addiction

Addiction can be referred to as a carriage of urges and cravings that helps you escape from an unwanted situation towards a temporary relief you find in your addiction. When you cannot control your urge by using your intellect and these unfulfilled urges cause you to feel negative emotions like anger and frustration, you are addicted.


The Key

The usual pattern for the urge to appear for the addicted substance or emotion is when your mind gives up on a situation that you refuse to handle. Or it's when you surrender your wisdom to your habit and your habit causes a craving that must be fulfilled.

It is important to understand that any kind of addiction starts with an attraction to the thing or emotion that you are now addicted to. It is obvious that you seek some kind of relief in the emotion, substance or any other thing you feel addicted to. The only way this can be overcome, is to find out what you are trying to relieve. Why do you want your mind to be taken over by something?

It may be a fear that once got you attracted to some drug or you may be finding joy in the fuel called self-pity. Addiction either to a substance or emotion affects the brain cells. The mind gets attracted to the thought of that thing you are addicted to, arising the urge in you. If the craving is not met, you feel frustrated. This frustration causes more negative thoughts that completely take over your mind. It is not easy to overcome addiction. But, to find out which emotion in you is seeking relief in the addiction, is the first step towards overcoming it.

Don't be afraid to take that first step and find out what is getting relief from the addiction. What will be hurt or frustrated if you do not get the urge fulfilled?

Let's take one step at a time.


Amazement

When you experience something good and beautiful that is beyond your expectation, you feel a higher level of happiness called amazement. It is a positive emotion you feel when you face a situation or a circumstance in which you find some unexpected level of comfort or happiness.


The Key

This is a good feeling that guides you towards your life purpose. It tells you to expect more because you deserve more. Don't doubt your amazing feeling and do not ever think that you do not deserve it. Flow with it and ask for more. Appreciating every positive feeling is the way to happiness.


Anger

Anger is a secondary emotion that is used to cover the primary negative emotion. Rosa called it "the cover for the gutter."

You have an image in your mind about things you want or the expectations you have from other people. When situations do not occur your way or people do not act according to your expectation, when you lose control of the situation and you feel powerless or hurt or scared. The aggressive and destructive act that emerges from within you in the form of an urge to grab your control again is born from a negative emotion called ANGER.


The Key

Taking responsibility for how you feel will reduce anger. Your own feelings of helplessness cause you to use anger to cover your vulnerability and justify your negative emotion.

Try to understand the diversity of nature and human brain. Start accepting instead of expecting, then you will not feel angry. You must start looking at other people as individuals, understand that no one was born on this earth to meet your expectations. People are born to live their own lives, which may mean that they must co-exist with you. But it still is their life, their ways, their choices, even if they go against your expectations. Accept it.

Find out the primary emotion that your anger is trying to hide. Someone may have caused you hurt. Or is it frustration caused by the tiredness of looking after the children? Is it your ego's need to showcase anger?

To be able to deal with anger, you must find and deal with the primary emotion that is causing anger in you.


Anxiety

Racing against time is what causes...

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