Post No. 3,504 - Updated definition of “emotions” on my glossary blog

I have been doing more work on the book version of my course “Magickal Battle of World”, and am updating some definitions from my online glossary for the book appendix. 

I quite like my revised “definition” of emotions, so I thought I would put the key text sections here:  

Emotions are the verb to the noun consciousness, give existence metaphorical colour, and can make life wonderful, or dreadful.  

Even those who try to downplay or control emotions, such as “rationality” fetishists in professions such as engineering are actually often feeling emotions such as pride, satisfaction, or arrogance.  

Emotions can be described as states of being – but dynamic states of being, subject to adjustment from a wide range of inputs.  

As the world is when this is being written, physical lifestyles are, viewed globally, often a source of pain as a result of inequity, abuse, greed, fear, control, bad faith politics, etc. Against that there are the positive emotions of caring, community, art and beauty (which is always in the eye of the beholder), healthy Nature, and healing skills such as spirituality, counselling, and – well, healing.  

For the work of my blog which led to this book, and the context of this book, emotions are both (a) states of being and (b) nonphysical energies at the same time, and are capable of being worked with, and worked on, as I started addressing in, for example, my post  “Post No. 708 - How do I clear or channel specific emotion ‘X’?”   http://gnwmythr.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/post-no-708-how-do-i-clear-or-channel.html   

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlightopossible flaws / issues youoshouldoconsider: 

• there mayobe flawedologicaloarguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ freeoonline course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinkingocaps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

 

Gnwmythr 

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safer ways to counter the "bad" (outoofobalance, spirituallyoimmature) 

 

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Post No. 3,460 - Emotional violence

I recently read a media article in which a (so-called? Probably has tertiary qualifications - that’s my annoyance, expressing itself mildly violently) stated that one of the most significant signs of an imminent relationship breakup is when those in it stop arguing. 

What utter rubbish. 

Relationships do NOT have to involve argument - there may be disagreement, and there will be need to discuss matters, but that does not mean those have to be done violently - i.e., through an argument, rather than a discussion, intense thought the discussion may be. 

The attitude that violent communication, as opposed to non-violent communication, or what used to be referred to as clear and assertive communication, is somehow ... “normal” conflates acceptability and commonality. 

Slavery used to be considered “normal” because it was widespread: It was not, however, in any way what could be considered a “normal” state of humanity, and relied on extensive conditioning of people and perverted social systems and “norms” for its existence.  

The opinion by an expert that arguments are “normal” contributes to society adopted a social norm (which is a different matter) that such violent communication is acceptable, and that contributes, in a small but significant way, towards the normalisation of other forms of violence - particularly emotional violence that is not accompanied by physical violence, 

That emotional violence is something I see in too many dramas (mostly movies, but also some fiction books), and the rejection of the perspective I am proposing by people who are aware of and reject the various forms of physical violence is a spiritual flaw, one which shows that they are more competent at word wars and than physical wars (something I have been aware f since I was a teenager - and not only from observing queen bee and wannabe queen bee teenage girls, but also some teenage boys who had what used to be called “the gift of the gab”), but have not yet learned to rise above such arbitrary and self imposed violence - which is to gain a sense of meaning or that their existence is notable - to a genuinely BPM patient and inclusive way of being. 

We need people to commit to doing better in their interactions - aim to be inclusive, healing, and uplifting, rather than what is truly a form of emotional violence.  

 

One day I hope someone with better word skills than I expands on what I have written here, and makes it understandable & acceptable to others - especially academics. 

 

(BTW, I can also see the hero arc in many dramas, but based on society being reduced the main characters in the film/book - and possibly those in the relationship [including any third party or influencing person].)  

 

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider: 

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

 

Gnwmythr 

teaching the "good" (balanced positive and spiritually mature) 
safe ways to counter the "bad" (out of balance, spiritually immature) 

 

If you appreciated this post, please share it. I am now on SubStack, Patreon, 
and you can support me at PayPal (or PayPal Repeating Support Options) or Ko-Fi 
Any and all support will be greatly appreciated, and will aid me in continuing this work 

 

Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

#PsychicABetterWorld   and  

Note that I am cutting back on aspects of my posts - see here, and Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear  

Copyright © Kayleen White 2007-2026     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. Typo’s may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-ShareAlike basis https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/