If you are in an emotional mess then here are some thoughts that may be new to you to help you see the way out, not by suicide but the reverse, learning to befriend and harness, contain, your emotions to serve and energise you, rather than rob you of energy, leave you de-motivated and powerless, no enthusiasm left.
For years I thought feelings and emotions were the same. I now think differently. It seems to me that using our seed words so loosely brings in a lot of confusion and so we become disempowered by our words which spring from our thoughts, usually the subconscious ones, linked to the passed past.
Feelings belong to the sense realm, and die when our body dies. The 5 senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell, do not work when our body has died. Imagine your eye on a stool? Can it see? (Even in the body, the eye simply conveys light, which enables the mind to see, to no longer be in the dark).
The mind, the conscious and subconscious thought life, belongs to the soul, the personality, which is either developing or disintegrating, not neutral. The emotions follow the way we think. The emotions drive our personality. From where do we emote? So often it is from the past, with all its hurts, disappointments, ignorances, deceptions, rather than from the truth of what it means to be a real human being. Yes, there is light, truth, to be found on this subject of being truly and fully human, mature and functioning, effective in being and doing.
So where does the confusion come in?
When we see and hear things, we are relating to the external world through the sense realm, and we start to have feelings. If we let the things we see and hear control us, to live by those feelings, we are living in the realm of darkness, because all these things are going to die when our body dies.
The sense realm is left behind at death of the body but the personality with the emotions goes on. If we start to think that the material world is the reality, then we are in living in a deception. We become deceived by what we see and hear and want more and more, and experience less and less of LIFE. The material world only came into being by thought, followed by word.
The real world is the invisible one. LOVE is experienced, but it is not material itself. It can certainly produce material results.
If we seek the light on all this, when the truth reaches our emotional selves, that is, starts to be experienced, then we start to understand and to be set free from the inside. Truth knowledge is an important start for the head, the control centre, the adult in us.
It is like bringing wood to the fireplace. The mind is like the fireplace. The soul is like the fire, in our belly, the place of passion, where we live, or where the fire goes out. The energy comes from this child within. The child (our emotions) needs love, acceptance, encouragement and training. Our mind needs to be renewed by truth to bring our emotions under control, loved and biddable, like a really co-operative child in the family ( contrast the rebel child in family and inside us).
When we confuse the sense realm with the soul realm, we are in trouble. Is that you?