Nature of Emotion
Published on 13. October 2023
218 pages
978-1-3984-8100-8 (ISBN)
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Are you perplexed when bad things seem to happen to you without any apparent cause? Are you confused about relationships? Do you begin a good relationship but find that sooner or later it goes downhill? When you have done some creative work and feel excited about it, do you find that you feel sexy afterwards and may even want sex? If so, then this book is for you. The overall reason is that you are unaware of your emotional responses, mainly because you cannot accurately identify those responses.Learn how to handle your emotions in harmonious ways and improve your relationships.
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Ian Heath
The Nature of Emotion
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- About the Author
- Copyright Information ©
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Overview of Consciousness
- Article 1 The Hidden Layers of the Mind
- 1. The Basic Problem
- 2. Confusion
- 3. Layers of the Mind
- Article 2 Mind Clusters
- 1. Lack of Self-Awareness
- 2. Clusters of Mental States
- Chapter 2 Emotions
- Article 3 The Nature of Emotion
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Feelings
- 3. Model of Emotions
- 4. Unconscious Ideas
- 5. Influence of Value
- 6. Emotions Grouped into Binary Pairs
- 7. List of Unconscious Ideas
- Article 4 Characteristics of Emotions
- 1. Emotions, Beliefs and Character Traits
- Jealousy (= self-pity + love)
- Narcissism (= vanity + love)
- Guilt (= self-pity + self-hate)
- Pride (= hatred of others + vanity)
- Love
- Hate
- Vanity
- Self-pity
- Envy
- Anxiety (= fear + vanity)
- 2. End Note
- Article 5 Identifying Emotions
- 1. Two Procedures
- Surface Emotions
- Subconscious Emotions
- 2. Empiricism
- Caffeine
- Vitamin C
- Headaches and Eye-aches
- 3. Psycho-somatic Signs
- 4. Importance of These Ideas
- Chapter 3 Abreaction
- Article 6 The Role of Anxiety
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Two Factors influencing Memory
- Factor (a)
- Factor (b)
- 3. Subconscious Determinism and Subconscious Motivation
- 4. What is Anxiety?
- 5. Switching Between Emotions
- Notation
- c). Changing guilt to pride.
- d). Changing guilt to jealousy.
- Article 7 Laws of the Unconscious Mind
- 1. The Hell of Purgation
- I need to introduce a change in traditional terminology.
- Note
- 2. Consider the Abreaction of Guilt
- Stage 1.
- Stage 2.
- Stage 3.
- Stage 4.
- Stage 5.
- 3. Consider the Abreaction of Pride
- Stage 1.
- Stage 2.
- Stage 3.
- Stage 4.
- Stage 5
- 4. End Stages
- 5. Universality of Abreaction
- Some Examples
- Article 8 Catharsis and Suggestion
- 1. Reversal of Values
- 2. Immoral Compulsions
- 3. Morality and Ethics
- 4. Sexual Abuse of Children
- 5. Suggestion
- 6. I give Examples of Short-term Desire
- Article 9 Resentment and Bitterness
- 1. Removing Compulsion
- 2. Purification and Sensuality
- 3. Eliminating Weakness
- Resentment narrows a person's views of society.
- Bitterness Hardens a Person.
- 4. Social Abreaction
- First Law of Social Change
- Second Law of Social Change
- 5. Examples of Social Abreaction
- 6. Conclusion
- Article 10 Forgiveness and Acceptance
- 1. Souring the Mind
- 2. Assimilation
- Forgiveness dissolves Resentment
- Acceptance Dissolves Bitterness
- 3. Role of Narcissism
- 4. Backlash
- 5. Stages of Sorrow Resolution
- 5a. Content Approach
- 5b. Form Approach
- Article 11 Abreactions of Narcissism and Jealousy
- 1. Radical Change of Beliefs
- 2. Consider the Abreaction of Narcissism
- Stage 1.
- Stage 2.
- Stage 3.
- Stage 4.
- Stage 5.
- 3. Consider the Abreaction of Jealousy
- Stage 1.
- Stage 2.
- Stage 3.
- Stage 4.
- Stage 5.
- 4. Starting Conditions
- Article 12 Two Variations - the Abreactions of Vanity and Self-Pity
- 1. Variations to the Abreactions of Guilt and Pride
- 2. Abreaction of Vanity
- 2a. The Stage of Vanity: The Flow of Ideas
- 2b. The Stage of Vanity: The Flow of Desires
- 2c. The Other Stages
- 3. Abreaction of Self-Pity
- 3a. The Stage of Self-Pity
- 3b. The Stage of Bitterness
- 4. Conclusion
- Appendices
- Appendix 1 Comparison of Reason and Intuition
- 1. Analytical Thinking
- 2. Physiological and Psychological Effects
- Appendix 2 Imprinting and Bonding
- 1. Attachment Behaviour
- 2. Factors of Bonding
- Imprinting
- Identification
- Transference
- Glossary
- Abreaction
- Antithetical Thoughts
- Consciousness
- Ego
- Emotional Dynamics
- Equanimity
- Existentialism
- Higher Self, Soul and Ego
- Internal Conflict
- Mind
- Mindfulness
- Morals and Ethics
- Projection and Introjection
- Psychic Energy
- Reincarnation
- Spirituality
- Footnotes
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Book List
