Few clarification before I write my todays topic on Save the Emotion. The posts have an objective but no target. There is a difference between objective and target. Target is a time bound intention to achieve an objective. The objective of the post is to create Implicit Emotional Contagion. Google the phrase. :) Ok now as promised in my last post, todays topic is definition of instinct & emotion. Part 7: All of us know what is instinct and what is emotion. Do we? No I am not going to tell you dictionary meaning but that can be a good start to understand the words. Hope you will see that urself. Initially you may see many of the search pages are telling almost same things but if you do a bit of R&D, you will realize different sites says 360 degree different interpretations and examples, theories etc. So as I say there are 2 ways to learn - one from outside and one from inside. :). I prefer to learn from inside first and then validate if anyone else has also told same thing, if we feel like validating. Let me come back to the topic. My interpretation of instinct is that we dont need to nurture but need to control. Now when we control the instinct, it generates emotions - a subjective feeling not necessarily associated with a response/reaction. It may sound either so obvious or so bogus. Let me try to elaborate a bit, so that we can at least decide whether its obvious or bogus or may be making sense. Lets think about Anger. Do we see it in beasts, in a new born baby? Obviously they cant control it and they did not learn it. Now think of a situation where someone is insulted and he/she did not have any option to show reactions (may be it was a boss or a goons or something like that). The person comes back home with anger and decides how to take revenge for the insult. Is it controlled anger? Do we think its emotion? Think of a situation where the person was insulted and he/she tries to understand what was wrong and fix it, so that next time it does not happen. Ok many of us may feel both the above situations are one and the same, specially when the word goons is concerned. Hold on we are again linking this to situation and circumstances. Thus we are only thinking about the response/reaction part. Remember we are talking about emotion - a feeling. So what is different in last situation? We are in control of Anger and we are trying to analyze, imagine with intention to solve it. More importantly overcome the beast instinct. Now the outcome of this will be various feelings such as self realization - oh I got it, possible empathy to the person insulted - he has a reason, inspiration - I need to and I can change it, merci - it was not big deal and I have also done this many times to others, rebel - I will do the right thing to solve it for not only me but for others, learned -sense of new learning to avoid the circumstances going forward and many more. Now these feelings are not beast or baby like any more and they are not related to immediate response/reaction. These are long lasting and I call them as emotions. Ok enough, I am not going to illustrate all other feelings such as Love, Happiness, Sorrow, etc etc to create a list of instincts and emotion as many websites tried. Its upto us to identify the good, long lasting, reaction independent feelings that we want to nurture and the bad, momentary, reaction prone feelings that we want to control. Whatever the name may be instinct/emotion or blah blah blah. Summary of the discussion: We should nurture good, long lasting, reaction independent feelings called emotion and control the bad, momentary, reaction prone feelings called instinct. One can get emotions when is able to control instincts.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 22:50:57 +0000
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