Do you feel that in order to grow spiritually you have to acknowledge and deal with your emotions, heal from pain, try to understand others emotions and accept that our emotions serve only as catalysts to deeper understanding and awareness if we actively learn about them?
2007-09-02 05:35:15 · 11 answers · asked by NONAME 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I would agree with this. I am currently on a path of spirituality and I'd say yes my emotions are connected with my spiritual life because I believe it is our soul/spirit that gives us our emotions and thoughts, and our emotions and thoughts effect our spirits thus influencing our spiritual life. I agree that in order to grow spiritually that one must acknowledge and deal with our emotions we must deal with all negative emotions such as saddness, anger, jealousy, hatred and embrace the positive emotions such as peace, joy, contentment. a person can never be happy if they have saddness, anger, jealousy, hatred or any similar bad feeling/emotion. I believe pure enlightenment is when all bad feelings and thoughts are no more and nothing is left but peace and pure joy, and peace and joy are the keys to pure freedom and when one embraces those feelings they will truely be able to fly. Flying is the ultimate freedom and that is my goal is to truely fly.
2007-09-02 05:50:09 · answer #1 · answered by Cat's Eye Angie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I do. Organized religion was brought to me (the second time) under the pretense that it would heal all my pain, and God would make my anger and my sadness better. And from talking to alot of people, they were sold the same package deal.
When I started trying to grow spiritually, I was hindered by the fact that others looked at me and said that I should take "joy in the Lord" and not dwell on my emotional turmoil, that I should "give it to Jesus" and let him take care of it -- and when it didn't get better, that always meant that I wasn't trying hard enough, I wasn't committed enough, etc, etc ...
What I learned is that we can't expect our spiritual lives to control our emotional lives ... we have to understand and deal with those things ourselves, because expecting our faith to do that will only lead to discontent and disappointment.
2007-09-02 05:45:56 · answer #2 · answered by ??????? 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Emotions can help or hinder spiritual growth until we learn mastery of the emotions. Emotions are with us to serve as gauges and guides, but not to lead us. Women have a bigger challenge, generally speaking, than men with over emotion, Men, generally speaking, have a challenge with under emotion. There is a good, healthy balance everyone must learn in order to facilitate healthy growth, both materially and spiritually. So, yes, emotions are interconnected and intimately so. They can't really be escaped... even the seemingly "emotionless" person, is expressing an emotion all its own. And of course, you can't know God until you feelingly experience Him in your life.
2007-09-02 05:44:57 · answer #3 · answered by Holly Carmichael 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Emotion,s are connected to spiritual thing,s if you are of God,because we commune with God on every thing.
2007-09-02 05:43:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humanity isn't "related" to the cosmos different than the undeniable fact that we stay interior it and that's approximately it. each thing that takes place interior the universe is random yet controlled via notwithstanding forces of nature enact upon it. death is as random as existence itself. And the variety of stars and different "heavenly bodies" interior the universe are plenty greater then each and all the living issues on the planet - The cosmos is possibly "countless" (or a minimum of too massive for us to comprehend)
2016-11-14 00:06:37 · answer #5 · answered by piazza 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most certainly. For Jesus said that we have to forgive everyone; even ones that may have tried to murder us. It is not easy. One has to work hard to not let ones emotions take them in the wrong direction.
2007-09-02 05:44:02 · answer #6 · answered by geessewereabove 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religious belief is emotional through and through.
One cannot believe in nonsense unless they have the emotional needs for it.
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2007-09-02 05:39:51 · answer #7 · answered by Saint Nearly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a lot of answers in understanding your very own thoughts to the core.
2007-09-02 05:39:13 · answer #8 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes...my spiritual nature and man's nature will always be connected...often in conflict
I must learn to die to self (pride, ego, ruthless ambition, selfishness with my possessions)...
and I will always struggle with human nature (anger, bitterness and such)
But as my spiritual life grows, my life of "me" dies...like John said...For Christ to Increase, I must decrease.
2007-09-02 05:41:57 · answer #9 · answered by Last Stand 2010 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't have "emotions". I'm a guy. I have 3 modes: Pissed off, Not Pissed off, and Excited.
2007-09-02 05:45:17 · answer #10 · answered by Tanjo22 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋