By Marie C. Barrett
Emotions are like a bridge between your spiritual self and your physical world. They speak the spiritual language of feelings, intuition and understanding and let you know how you are processing your Life Force energy, whether you are using it wisely or not.
Emotions create chemical reactions in the body, aligned with the vibration of the feeling of that particular emotion. That is to say, emotions create holographically imprinted chemicals in our body that define the reality we experience. Our cells are always responding to these chemicals, as they receive or reject the feeling-good emotions or feeling-bad emotions.
Many people pay little attention to their emotions. Nor do they reflect and make themselves aware of how they are feeling at any given moment. But it really is important that you become aware of your emotions. When you feel good, your Higher Self is telling you all is well, and when you feel uneasy, it is telling you to change your thinking quickly, for maintaining this current “feeling bad” vibration, is not for your greater good or happiness and will attract more of what you do not want.
How simple and amazing is this inner guidance that speaks to you through the language of emotion!
A classic definition of emotion might read: Emotion is an intense mental state that arises automatically in the nervous system, causes a feeling response, a physical change, and often evokes a behavioral reaction.
This really means that our emotions show us the energy vibration we are creating through our thoughts, feelings, desires and actions. Here we want to understand why we feel and behave in the ways in which we do and understand our own personal triggers.
American psychologist, Robert Plutchik, suggests everyone experiences four basic sets of opposite emotions: joy and sadness, acceptance and disgust, fear and anger, and surprise and anticipation. When these are blended in various mixes, we experience secondary emotions. When joy and acceptance blend, for instance, we experience love; or when surprise blends with sadness, we experience disappointment; fear and surprise blend into awe and so forth.
Emotions are a complex area of study in psychology, but for our purposes, we want to use our emotions as indicators of why we react to our environment. Our thoughts, feelings and even the physical changes in our body are emotional indicators, all subtlety inter-connected and blended in varying degrees of intensity. Our personal awareness and understanding of how we experience reality through our emotions is an art to be cultivated deep within our heart, mind and body.


