Scales of Emotion and their Use

We live our lives thinking thoughts, and feeling emotions in connection with those thoughts.

Emotions appear to be energetic in nature. We live as our conscious mind, influenced by the storehouse of our memories in the unconscious mind, and we appear to have been imbued with what I think of as 'psycho-spiritual energy', with which we feel our physical and emotional experiences.

 And we appear to adjust our psycho-spiritual energy according to the differing nature of our experiences. Those things that enhance our survival, and those things which bring us pleasure, can cause us to experience what we think of as the 'higher' or 'lighter' emotions.  

The aim of life is generally to experience as much time as possible in the higher and more enjoyable emotions. There appears to be a guide towards enlightenment…

OUR PERSONAL LIFE
In terms of personal relevance, they can serve as a map for our lives.
We will usually have a 'social emotion', which is the way that we present ourselves, and then we have a 'chronic emotion', which is how we feel when we are alone. The chronic emotion could also be called our 'default' emotion. It is a good idea to get an honest and realistic idea about what our chronic emotion is. Then we can begin to honestly face up to the issues that we are struggling. The ‘map’ aspect of this is to know which way is UP. If we have spent a lot of time in apathy or grief, moving into a period of anxiety may actually be an improvement. Similarly,

Below is the Chart of Emotional Frequency, based on the work of psychiatrist and author David Hawkins.

 If we correctly gauge where we are on these charts, we can see what 'baggage' we may have accumulated, that may be dragging us down. We can also see the kinds of emotions we may need to work through on the way up.  They help us to see what we are doing with our life energy. Are we mostly creating and developing our life, or are we heading downwards and heading towards departing this life?  

HOW TO RAISE YOURSELF HIGHER ON THE SCALE
Anything that gives you a lasting feeling of being happier is relevant. Notice that I said ‘lasting’. So the temporary dopamine hits of eating chocolate, drinking alcohol, doom scrolling on your phone, or whatever your particular pleasure addiction may be, those things don’t count. Exercising, reading and studying, dancing, singing….all of these things can achieve something that is more lasting.

Clarifying and aligning your goals, purposes, values and ideals can put you in touch with your ‘authentic self’. For this reason, coaching is definitely something that can bring permanent, positive change.

Otherwise you may need to do some therapy or some long-term meditation. This is because what weighs us all down is our mental baggage. The sum total of negative imprints in our unconscious mind. Not all therapies work. We need therapies that help us to locate incidents in our unconscious mind, in a gradual and comfortable way, and view those incidents in a way that allows us to release any build up of negative thoughts and feelings. When done correctly, therapy can give us permanent change.

Meditation is a longer term prospect. But persistence with good meditation can allow someone to peel away the layers of their Negative Unconscious Mind.

PROFESSIONAL APPLICATIONS

The same notions apply to anyone working as a counsellor, therapist, or coach. Finding where a client is usually at, gives us some ideas about what we may need to help them with, to speed their progress. It can be noticed (something I have been observing for over 35 years) that clients coming up out of a chronic emotion will follow a pattern. Apathy can lead to a client expressing and releasing grief. Which in term might lead to a period of anxiety, followed by anger. As we continue to work with them, the anger is released and they move into a zone of ‘neutrality’ or boredom. Finally, they move into cheerfulness.

The zone below where a client seems to be stuck, can be a clue as to how to approach their difficulties. I have worked with people who insist that they have an anger issue. But what eventually handled their anger was when we dealt with their unconfronted fears.

 MANIFESTATION

The higher emotions are the zone in which manifestation occurs

It has been said, that if you were in a group of people and you were trying to decide which of you should go into a casino to try to win some money, you should choose the most cheerful person amongst you. Cheerfulness seems to bring luck.
Cheerfulness is also the zone in which we think our 'light' thoughts. The heavy thoughts of emotions like grief and anger appear to be too similar in frequency to the physical universe, and have no effect on it.

Below is an emotional scale from the book ‘Beyond Psychology: An Introduction to Metapsychology’ by Dr. Frank Gerbode.

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES AND THE EMOTIONAL SCALE

I have included the emotional scale from Metapsychology because it is one that I have been familiar with for many years. And it includes something interesting in relation to ‘anti-social’ personalities.

Note that in this scale, between Fear and Resentment, there is an emotional tone of ‘covert hostility’. In other words, the person who may seem to be friendly towards you, but who actually has hidden, bad intentions towards you. Here we have many narcissists, and all sociopaths and functioning psychopaths. Non-functioning psychopaths are prone to flying into violent rage and anger and are easily detected and are often apprehended because of this. Prisons around the world are full of them.

Sociopaths, however, have learned to remain hidden. But to the trained eye, their disdain for others is plain to see. The untrained person, unfortunately, often believes their offers of friendship, romance and the like. In the business world, these people masquerade as accountants and consultants offering to ‘help’ struggling businesses, and soon after their appointment within the business begin to siphon out money into their own accounts.

In relation to the emotional scale, the point is that they are people who are largely in a state of fear. They may seem powerful and terrifying, but this is due to the fact that their conscience is almost entirely nullified. But within their traumatized minds, they are struggling to escape from a terrible fear that has haunted them throughout most of their existence. They see people around them as threatening, and their only way to achieve survival and peace of mind is to bring others down and dominate them. Some people, undergoing therapy after suffering at the hands of a sociopath, experience considerable relief when they realize that their evil tormentor is actually terrified of THEM.

MORE TO COME SOON…