How Our Emotions Are Created
One thing I learned from watching “What the Bleep” is how our thoughts control our emotions. It’s really fascinating AND once you get it, then you will be better able to control your thoughts and create new pathways for positive thought processes. Hopefully I can explain this in an easy to understand manner.
First, let’s look at our thoughts.
When we first have a thought that is new to us, there is a brief connection of tendrils in our brains which pass electrical charges. This electrical energy is our thought. Now, as we have that thought over and over, the connection finally becomes permanent and offers the thought a pathway of least resistance.
Ok, so our thoughts are essentially nothing but energy being transmitted in our brains. Got it? Good.
So, what happens after we have the thought? Well, it triggers a gland at the base of our brains called the hypothalamus. This gland then manufactures enzymes to match the thought we were having. These enzymes, also known as peptides, are distributed throughout our bodies via our bloddstream. As they traverse the body they attach themselves to the cells of the body, sometimes even effecting a change in chemical structure of the cell. What happens next is that this generates the emotional response we experience from that thought.
But why do people continue to experience the same emotional response to certain stimuli? Well, it’s because that individual has become addicted to the chemical reaction caused by the thought pattern.
So now, when we can realize and believe this, it makes it so much easier to change our emotional responses. For instance, you keep thinking to yourself that you’ll never succeed, and that causes you to be depressed. Ok, how do we fix this? Easy now that you know it’s all just an electrical and chemical process. First, you must recognize the negative thought pattern as soon as it appears. Next change it to a positive thought pattern. You can do this by mentally creating an affirmation to counter the negative thought. At first it will be a challenge because the pathway for the old thought pattern is still connected. Also, you will be getting a different chemical reaction in your body causing you to have a totally different emotional response.
You will then become addicted to this new chemical reaction in your body, and as such, a permanent pathway will be created in your brain for that thought process, making it easier and easier to have that thought.
Now that you have an idea of what is happening, it will be easier for you to change your thought patterns to ones which you truly wish to experience. Here’s how to go about that:
1. Learn to recognize when the feeling and thought patterns occur.
2. Step back and ask yourself, is this the response I want to experience?
3. Objectively look at the situation, with no feelings attached to
it, THEN determine the outcome you desire.
4. Now state that new desire first as a thought pattern then as an
emotional response.
I do hope I’ve explained this well so that it is easily understandable.
Peace, Abundance, and Blessings,
Gary
February 18th, 2007 at 9:21 am
beautifully expained gary!
Continue to break these concepts down into bite size pieces with simply stated explanations. It is very helpfu!
thankyou
diana
February 18th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Beautiful. This explains why it becomes easier to believe a thought or thought pattern after you’ve experienced that thought several times. Your body is responding, and addicted to the response. Very interesting. Would you elaborate on the reversal process a little more? For instance, Would you look for the specific emotion that thought creates, or would your overall emotional state be relative? For someone with depression, I would imagine they would struggle with the “Numbness” alot, and if they could pinpoint the exact thoughts that GOT them there, (as opposed to the thoughts they are having once they are there) and reverse them, they would be in a great position to heal themselves.
**another thought…. I wonder if this is why I haven’t experienced any depression since I started my Brainwave Entrainment daily ritual. They said it would create new Neural pathways….I wonder how it knows to create healthy pathways. Very curious indeed!
February 18th, 2007 at 10:05 am
Beautiful analysis!! As I was reading this I was going YES and YES and YES.
Another way to derail the “connections” is to use ABE’s phrase — “Here I am doing that thing I do again.” This always makes me smile and chuckle now, but when I was using in initially it just made me stop and think and allowed me a little humor (very little humor in the beginning) to enter the equation. Humor is an emotion (chemical) so the stiuation changes even if only a little.
I actually have business cards printed with this saying on it that I carrying in my wallet as a reminder. Cause, let’s face it we just love (addicted to) doing certain things and they will keep popping up on occasion even after we recognize them and think we’ve dealt with them. EYOW, there I am doing the thing I do again — making it harder than it needs to be.
February 18th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Gary, that’s a really clear explanation of how I get attached to my negative thoughts, even before I’m aware of them! I get hooked on that physiological feeling, and I keep seeking it out by repeating the same (negative) thought. Great! Joe Cronin
February 18th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Thanks for all the GREAT comments!
Diana, breaking this concepts down like that is exactly what I plan to accomplish with all I am doing.Â
Susan, yes, if one could trace backwards and find the thoughts that caused the depression to begin with, should be able to then reverse those thoughts, in turn creating the opposite physiological reaction. I would think this would be a great way for people to heal themselves of depression.
L’Maxi, thanks for your comments, and yes, it sounds like you were effectivly doing as I suggest with your business card.
Joe, glad I could be of help and allow you to see what’s helping to keep you stuck.
Gary
February 18th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Wow, Gary, this is positively amazing, the way you boiled it down into such easily understandable words! This is a keeper! Thanks so very much. I have not watched “What The Bleep” for over a year, but I own a copy of the original movie, and I’m going to pull it down and watch it again. I think What the Bleep is a natural follow-up for people new to Law of Attraction after they’ve seen The Secret or been introduced to it in other simpler terms. Thanks again, Laurie
February 18th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Gary –
What a beautiful, thorough description of the victim mentality. So many people get addicted to the feeling of being held down, trampled on, taken advantage of, etc…that they actually continue to create situations where this can happen. You just explained why!
I am forwarding the link on this blog posting on to a couple of people near and dear to me just to see what they think.
Thank you!
Melissa