The Power of Emotion

Ever wondered where your thoughts and your perspective on any given situation come from? Well I can tell you it’s not from the situation itself, but from the emotion that situation brings up inside of you. You may never have seen a correlation between one and the other before, as the situation tends to run, in the main, within the rules of logic and the emotion is grounded within your feelings, but individual thought and emotion are inextricably connected. The emotions that we develop in our experiences in life help directly shape and affect all subsequent interactions, experiences, relationships, and setbacks.

The power of emotion has long been over-shadowed by thought alone, and it’s time that we started to see the direct relationship between emotion and thought in order to rechannel our emotion-based thoughts to maximize our true potential in health, wealth, relationships, career, and all that makes up life as we know it. By gaining a better understanding of our emotions, we will then be able to better examine ourselves, adjust our perspective, and succeed on the best path for us as individuals.

Emotion based thought.

What exactly is emotion based thought and how does it affect us as individuals? Emotion based thought is our individual perspectives or our personal take on any situation as it happens or indeed before it happens, though few of us recognize it for just that. We all have a set of emotions, feelings, and reactions to the life factors around us. Ever noticed how some people react differently to different experiences, problems, and actions in their lives? For example, you get turned down for a raise you were expecting. How do you react? Well that will depend on the emotion that the rejection stirs within you and that emotion will be triggered by your true thoughts on that rejection. Down in the dumps believing that you are a failure, sobbing in an empty pint of Ben and Jerrys. Your co-worker, on the other hand, takes a raise turndown in their stride, believing that it just wasn’t meant to be at that time but they carry on with a smile determined to try again. Obviously, providing both thoughts on the rejection are honest, they have to instill different emotions.

How can we explain this difference? The answer is simple, different people react differently to each situation that turns up in their life and as a consequence their emotions will be equally different. Your tendencies toward anger, fear, sadness, etc, how these are perpetuated, where they originated, and the differing values of each make you the individual you are. Simply put, different situations in life affect you differently from your peers. These emotional thoughts or perspectives color every occurrence, action, and reaction in your life to come. They determine what career you will go after, what types of relationships you will have, and how far you will go to achieve your short and long term goals. In short your emotion based thoughts will, over a period of time, determine just how happy and contented your life is, so take some time to study them.

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