the cycle of emotions

[angelic212]

***THE CYCLE OF EMOTIONS***

Pain in the present is experienced as hurt

Pain in the past is remembered as anger.

Pain in the future is perceived as anxiety.


Unexpressed anger, redirected against yourself and held within, is called guilt.

The depletion of energy that occurs when anger is redirected inward creates depression.

This cycle gets repeated countless times in everyone's life. This cycle begins in the present, where only pain pleasure are felt, and ends up with complex feelings centered exclusively in the past,such as guilt and depression.


What this cycle tells us is that stored hurt is responsible for wide range of psychological distress. Buried hurt disguises itself as anger, anxiety, guilt,and depression. The only way to deal with these layers of pain is to find out what hurts as the pain occurs, deal with it, and move on.

Living in the present means being honest enough to avoid the easy emotion, which is anger, and expose the hurt, which is harder to confront. When hurt is not resolved in the present, the vicious buildup of anger,anxiety,and depression can only grow worse.

[katja]

thats interesting