Overcoming Emotions (part 2)- Emmanuel Ariyo
In the first part of this write up, We discussed what emotion is and we were able to look at its advantages and disadvantages when not tamed or controlled. I really want to appreciate everyone that read the previous article and also sent me messages. I was encouraged, motivated, inspired etc. I hope to always release one article per week as long as I am able. It's a good thing to know that I have an audience, it stimulates passion. So I wanna say thank you for been there.
Emotion Issues are complex, but I am going to be simple and straight forward. Firstly, there are some emotional features that are good, examples are joy, happiness, love etc. I call them positive emotional features and these are really good. I don't think there is a need for anyone to desire to tame joy, happiness or love. But on the other hand, the negative emotional features which are fear, sadness, hatred, anger etc are to be tamed and conquered so as to live a good life. I discovered that these negative emotional features manifest as a result of two things, one is inferiority complex and the other is superiority complex. People who feel inferior always think they are poor, unsecured, dull, worthless, useless and valueless. So they live in constant fear, depression and sorrow especially when people are not responding to them as they expect. Such people may feel good when people commend them but when people aren't looking at them or singing their praises, they feel bad. When they wear special dress and make new hair, they want people to say they look good or they got nice hair, beautiful dress etc. But if people don't commend or say good things about them, they feel sad.
This negative emotional features can be conquered with KNOWLEDGE. Such people need to know who they are, they need to know their value and worth. We need to understand that God never created any bad thing. The bible says that God saw all that he created and they were good. When something is good, it means it has worth and value. When something looses its value or worth, then people say it's bad. You may not be good at one thing as someone but you are better at something else. The psalmist made us understand that we are fearfully and WONDERFULLY made. If you are born again, then you are super human. You are peculiar, a royal priesthood, a holy nation. You are created to show forth the Glory of God. It does not matter what someone say or think, what you are, cannot change. Someone may not like you, but know that someone else is crazy about you. You may mean nothing to some people, but you mean the whole world to some other people. So don't get bothered at people's reaction to you, keep your mind fixed on the beautiful and wonderful things that God has deposited in you and you will always be filled with joy and appreciation to God for what he has made you to be. So I believe that self discovery is an important key to emotional stability.
I wanna summarize the above discussion by saying that KNOWLEDGE is the key to overcoming negative emotions caused by Inferiority complex
There are some negative emotional features that also manifest as a result of superiority complexity. People who feel superior could exhibit Pride, anger, hatred, stubbornness, selfishness, rigidity etc. Such people could have discovered themselves and have believed so much in themselves without giving regards to people around them. Such people don't care about what people say, they care only about what comes from their mind. People's commendation or condemnation does not bother them. They naturally hate people who aren't supporting them, they get angry at people who crosses their path and they resist people who do not give respect and response their demands. This is also not good, it has gone to the extreme. The question now is, How do we overcome this emotional complexity? what out for the next episode, it's gonna be the final on this topic...
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Emotion Issues are complex, but I am going to be simple and straight forward. Firstly, there are some emotional features that are good, examples are joy, happiness, love etc. I call them positive emotional features and these are really good. I don't think there is a need for anyone to desire to tame joy, happiness or love. But on the other hand, the negative emotional features which are fear, sadness, hatred, anger etc are to be tamed and conquered so as to live a good life. I discovered that these negative emotional features manifest as a result of two things, one is inferiority complex and the other is superiority complex. People who feel inferior always think they are poor, unsecured, dull, worthless, useless and valueless. So they live in constant fear, depression and sorrow especially when people are not responding to them as they expect. Such people may feel good when people commend them but when people aren't looking at them or singing their praises, they feel bad. When they wear special dress and make new hair, they want people to say they look good or they got nice hair, beautiful dress etc. But if people don't commend or say good things about them, they feel sad.
This negative emotional features can be conquered with KNOWLEDGE. Such people need to know who they are, they need to know their value and worth. We need to understand that God never created any bad thing. The bible says that God saw all that he created and they were good. When something is good, it means it has worth and value. When something looses its value or worth, then people say it's bad. You may not be good at one thing as someone but you are better at something else. The psalmist made us understand that we are fearfully and WONDERFULLY made. If you are born again, then you are super human. You are peculiar, a royal priesthood, a holy nation. You are created to show forth the Glory of God. It does not matter what someone say or think, what you are, cannot change. Someone may not like you, but know that someone else is crazy about you. You may mean nothing to some people, but you mean the whole world to some other people. So don't get bothered at people's reaction to you, keep your mind fixed on the beautiful and wonderful things that God has deposited in you and you will always be filled with joy and appreciation to God for what he has made you to be. So I believe that self discovery is an important key to emotional stability.
I wanna summarize the above discussion by saying that KNOWLEDGE is the key to overcoming negative emotions caused by Inferiority complex
There are some negative emotional features that also manifest as a result of superiority complexity. People who feel superior could exhibit Pride, anger, hatred, stubbornness, selfishness, rigidity etc. Such people could have discovered themselves and have believed so much in themselves without giving regards to people around them. Such people don't care about what people say, they care only about what comes from their mind. People's commendation or condemnation does not bother them. They naturally hate people who aren't supporting them, they get angry at people who crosses their path and they resist people who do not give respect and response their demands. This is also not good, it has gone to the extreme. The question now is, How do we overcome this emotional complexity? what out for the next episode, it's gonna be the final on this topic...
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