Emotional help

[Guest guest]

Dr. Eliezer Ben-ph wrote:

Negative emotions may also be the unconscious learning experience that most

people use to create deeper states of self awareness. Let me give a couple

examples. Depression is the unconscious way of learning introspection when

there is no time spent in conscious (deliberate) introspection. Fear is the

unconscious way one learns imagination, and sadness is the unconscious way

of learning empathy. When the positive learning aspect of the negative

emotion is ignored then only the negative emotion is left for the learning

experience. Most people do not look to the positive lesson gained with the

negative emotional experience. When one concentrates on the positive aspect

of the learning experience one need not draw in the negative emotional

experience. We learn consciousness and balance either on purpose or we get

kicked, battered, beaten, emotionalized, or traumatized into our own growth.

Just another way of looking at negative emotions. "

Dear Dr. Ben-ph:

I find your observations quite brilliant, providing a profound reframing for

egoic engagement with emotional healing and wholeness.

In the context of your insights, I would add the following note from Jung,

which I believe bears more than a little relevance:

" A neurosis is truly removed only when it has removed the false attitude of

the ego. We do not cure it -- it cures us. A man is ill, but the illness is

nature's attempt to heal him. " - Carl Jung

[Guest guest]

THis is an excellent site of a banded psychologist friend in NY. she offers a

free workbook and other help with the many psychological issues of banding and

weight loss.

http://www.shedemotionalweight.com/