how does experiencing emotions affect one's life?

Question

How is someone who has experience a whole range of emotions, from the best highs to the lowest lows, different from someone who has a life that's high consist of their favorite show being on the television and their low being out of cereal? Which parts of a person's personality do the emotions change

Answer 1

An emotion is the projection/display of a feeling. Unlike feelings, the display of emotion can be either genuine or feigned. The distinction between feelings and emotions was highlighted by an experiment conducted by Paul Ekman who videotaped American and Japanese subjects as they watched films depicting facial surgery. When they watched alone, both groups displayed similar expressions. When they watched in groups, the expressions were different. We broadcast emotion to the world; sometimes that broadcast is an expression of our internal state and other times it is contrived in order to fulfill social expectations. Infants display emotions although they do not have the biography nor language skills to experience feelings. The emotions of the infant are direct expressions of affect.

Answer 2

Only speaking for myself, it seems like you try to numb yourself or escape or avoid those extremes for the rest of your days, in particular the lows, but the highs as well, because anything less... well- it's a low. Achieving the state in which your high becomes your favorite show on tv and the low being out of cereal, becomes the goal. Your strive for everyday. "Normal" becomes the goal, precisely because you know you're not and will never be again. It never happens, and you're irreversibly changed, but it still remains a goal. It changes a substantial bit of your personality. A greater degree of introspection is common, I think, and a pleasant side effect has been a real lack of condemning others for whatever reason, because you just never know what someone else is going through. ever. I get that. I didn't before. Well- this has just been my experience anyway. One person's two cents.

Answer 3

Life is like a blank canvas. The way in which we live is like the black ink that gives it form. Emotions are the colors that give the image flavor. A person who has had only shallow emotional experiences will have dull, "lifeless" colors. However, really deep vibrant colors will bring out the beauty in a picture. Once a person has gone through a true, deep, and absolutely painful sadness they will be able to see the true vibrance of real happiness. It's all about contrast.

Answer 4

The fire of passion that emotions light seems to be, when experiencing it, the means by which one is able to experience the greatest fruits of existence available to a conscious being, and thus the greatest way of achieving Being.
This proceeds from the fact that emotional reactions are inevitably value reactions: what we value, and in what manner, determines our emotional reactions.
Values themselves proceed from an understanding of and reconcilliation of Being with the individual existent. By valuing things, we understand their fundamental connection to our nature, our lives, and from that proceeds their sanctity, for sanctity is invoked only by the values we truly hold as the highest in our minds.
One who lives their lives inside of a bubble and avoids the emotional turmoil of the 'real world' is one who will never be able to achieve an honest and authentic life or being and the despair that will inevitably result from this will be much more profound than even the most wretched sorrows proceeding from our relation to a value.

Answer 5

I like to think that even those who have had a "hard" life are blessed....I mean because they have had such a hard life, they are more open minded...they see things through a clearer glass than those who have lived a sheltered and "happy" life...to be honest, I would rather have the knowledge that a poor man has than the riches of a millionaire....

~@shley

Answer 6

Think of this, You start as a sperm, adding the emotion of a womans egg. then from there you add emotion from the world such as food, hate and everything else. Then when you die you let all you emotions go and you float of into a dreamscape to do it all over again.

Answer 7

Humans were not designed to operate emotionally on a one dimensional field. One who has realized the highest highs and lowest lows that life can deliver is one who knows true compassion and understanding of life and societies human spirit. To be emotionally complete one suffers and one engages life to appreciate it.

Answer 8

Emotion are the part of life. Amen

Answer 9

a person who has experience of a particular emotion which was bad then he would always remain upset whenever such condition will come in front of him

Answer 10

emotions r d vital factor in life which enables us 2 resist all unfavarable aspects .although it is easy 2 convey such mesage but much harder 2 imply it,but still if u wanna go further "CONTROL UR EMOTIONS"