99 steps to reclaiming your individuality Step #30

Setting the boundaries: 

Understanding the individual nature of our emotions is key to this course. This is why it was decided to refer to them as our nature states. Each one is separate and unique, though we seldom view them that way. We more often view our emotional framework as a force acting on us, as opposed to a force working in us, a parallel- multi-lane'd  hi-way of states acting on stimulus provided by our environment, and expressed through our consciousness in a variety of ways both physically and psychologically. That's it in the proverbial nutshell.

Once we can finally drive this point home, we will no longer be at the mercy of our emotions, but instead, be the recipients of their interactive stimulus through our conscious awareness. We should accept this now. There is no motive or reason for this not to be true, therefore we can affirm it to be so. What can confuse us is the varied ways in which we will learn to interact with our emotional states, without analytically taking away from the richness of their interdependent workings in our daily lives. This will take time and practice, but at each crossroad our lives will improve, it can only be this way, because awareness and recognition are self fulfilling actions they succeed by the mere advent of their presence,  not by the momentum or force by which they are applied.

So without the repetition of defining each emotional state (nature state), let us set up an example to better understand the universal principles of these states. For this example we will refer to the example "nature" (emotion) as the causal state.

The causal state is best thought of as an elastic vehicle. Its dimensions or impact will be measured by the direct proportional action that is applied to it. It knows only its own state, and has a succinct linear path between two points. The nature, intensity, impact and triggers for the expression of this state are specific to the individual. It can operate independent of the control of the individual, and this is common. This state was formed in our consciousness by sensory interaction first in the primal family and then progressively in the societal interaction of our environment. To go into the forensic psychological structure and framework of the  evolution of our inherent nature states is beyond the scope of this course, but this should not detract us from grasping the structure of the states effectively enough to fully satisfy our resolve to comprehend them.

There is a primal framework for each of our nature states, this can be best expressed as a circuit board that has yet to be programmed. It is capable of a specific set of sequences, contingent on its own inherent  structure and polar extremes. We, as previously asserted, will program this state consciously and unconsciously during our life experience. It is also common for life events, and certain physical impairments to short circuit these states (allegorically speaking),  when this occurs the states tend to work only in their extremes, this is unfortunate, but again beyond the scope of this course. It must also be asserted that it is also very common for individuals to be falsely or indiscriminately misdiagnosed in cases of the latter also. 

Finally, when approaching the matured and healthy causal state, one must view it as a subordinate entity. Like a manager would approach an employee, or a instructor would approach his student. When through lapse authority the opposite occurs, the causal state can be thought of as a rudderless vessel, it is at the whim of the sea that propels it and not the captain., The course and destination will be entirely up to the environment or circumstances that surround the individual, and the individual will not be in control. The latter being also an all too common occurrence.   

This brief overview is not meant to be a definitive dissection of the nature states (emotions) of the individual. It is intended like all previous examples in this course to spur personal investigation, discovery and introspection. It is there that the truisms and reflections in this course will homogeneously form the momentum needed for the individual to reclaim absolute authorship in their lives, and this is our only intention.