The following piece is an article written for another site which may have some interest for readers of this blog. In it, I discuss the connection between emotions and personal crises.

The paradigm shift that humanity is transiting will have a profound effect on the way we experience our emotions as universal polarities will be affected, i.e. male/female, east/west, reason/emotion etc.

It is clear that throughout history one polarity has been favored over the other. This will not be so in the future. The current paradigm shift will rebalance that which has been in a previous state of imbalance. Here is the article:

Denied Emotions and Personal Crises
Accepted Emotions and Unconditional Love

The opposite of love is fear but that which is all-encompassing has no opposite.
The Course in Miracles

The avoidance of fear will cause fear to persist and, the acceptance of fear will cause its release. Why?

Fear is an emotion and emotions are our response to life. Life is a free-flowing process and if we interrupt the flow by avoiding and denying our emotions, our emotions do not disappear. Even unfelt, they still exist and will do whatever is necessary to overcome our avoidance and denial of their existence.

Interior denial leads to exterior crises—continued denial leads to continual crisis.

Accepting and feeling our emotions will release them but denying and avoiding emotional response will cause those emotions to persist; and persistently denying those emotions will ultimately result in a crisis powerful enough to overcome our resistance.

This is why the acceptance of our emotional response is so important. If we deny emotional response by avoidance, that avoidance will result in a continuing and escalating series of crisis that will ultimately overcome our denial.

This is not the way we want to live life and if we want to experience it differently, then we must respond differently. Buckminster Fuller maintained that life evolves by learning from mistakes, see http://www.flighttogenius.com/mm_ebook.pdf.

Love is acceptance and unconditional acceptance of our emotions will return us to the natural state of unconditional love.

It is now time to accept our emotions and the gifts that full emotional acceptance will bring us—love, abundance and joy. Allowing full emotional acceptance will uncork the cornucopia of life. Doing what we have not yet done will bring us what we do not yet have.

It is my belief that we are collectively entering a period of extreme crisis which will express itself in economic, ecological and spiritual terms. But there is a way to navigate this crisis in a way that will bring release, not suffering; but to do so, we must first learn what the crisis is trying to teach us.

This approach does not deny the power of positive thinking. Thoughts are very powerful but so is denial.

Darryl Robert Schoon

www.survivethecrisis.com

www.drschoon.com