With physical pain, normal human beings can differentiate between safety and danger. Our lives are preserved by instinct. Emotions, too, can protect us from danger. Adrenaline, as well as other bodily chemicals, is released in response to short-term stress, and this allows one to respond to emergencies with quick-witted efficiency. Emotional PAIN (grief, melancholy, sadness, etc.), however, does not preserve life. It only slows down human progress. In fact, it destroys life in many cases. Do you REALLY need to feel sad when a friend or family member dies? Will it bring him/her back? No. Therefore crying/grieving is not productive. Of course, you have the argument that emotional pain can protect you in a relationship, like if your spouse betrays you, you will be more cautious about making committments. Well, logic and common sense can help just as much if not more. What is your thought on this?
2007-02-18 09:54:20 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No pain no gain
You have to go through the pain for your own Spiritual Growth
It is a part of the journey you have taken, and with that the lessons you have to learn.
If you have no pain then you will not learn the lesson
It is like a person that keeps ending up in a relationship that is really bad
Then one day after all the pain they are free and never looks back
They have then learnt the lesson
They are not going to be treated that way any more
Then they move on to the next lesson : )
Love & Blessings
Milly
2007-02-18 10:31:59 · answer #1 · answered by milly_1963 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure it's as simple as that. Sentient beings are those "endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness". The murmuring of the subconscious, however you look at it, informs our individual experiences on this planet. You've said that 'grieving' is not productive: but why must emotion be justified to some utilitarian end? It is the free expression of a free being, which should never limit itself to tools like logic and 'common sense'.
2007-02-18 18:01:52 · answer #2 · answered by Tree of Jesse 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think emotional pain lets us know of the invisible pain we are feeling due to our environment. It alerts you that you are in a bad situation and need to find a way out of it. Some people misinterpret this as them being sad. Just an opinion.
2007-02-18 17:59:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life would be meaningless without pain. Emotional pain multiplies the possibilities.
2007-02-18 18:12:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Emotional pain helps you to grow in many ways... as difficult as it is.
2007-02-18 17:57:41 · answer #5 · answered by Screamin' Banshee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not talking to you... I am talking to the one inside you that is asking these questions, the one what wants you to know this answer!
It teaches you "Love" and that my child, when you truly come to know it, is something that if allowed it to might just let you live forever!
2007-02-18 18:15:43 · answer #6 · answered by James 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
only to reveal suppressed logic, i guess
2007-02-18 17:58:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its normal
2007-02-18 17:59:17 · answer #8 · answered by sahara_springs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋