2014년 11월 16일 일요일

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 We human beings live with emotion like most living creatures do. We feel happy when things go well, sad when someone unexpectedly leaves us, angry when something annoys or bothers us and many kinds of emotion appear on ourselves. Some people may have wondered and thought about how these emotions come and affect us. After their consideration, most of them misunderstand that humans have the ability to create and change their emotion. Think about the situations that can be happened after our emotion - We would have a fight or an argument when we feel angry at someone, hug or kiss someone when we feel love, run away or confront against when we feel fear, cry when we are sad, and various situations occur naturally in accordance with variety of emotion. They can be happened because of our automatic emotion before we really notice it. We might think that emotion is able to be controlled by human because we feel it differently but actually humans are not able to highly control their emotion.

 Emotions affect our physical bodies and mental. In the MK projects,  people who just ignore and repress their emotions are setting themselves up for physical illness. Emotions that are felt but buried in the body can cause serious illness such as cancer, arthiritis, and other types of chronic illnesses. Emotions change how we feel, our thinking, and our behaviors. Our physical and mental conditions formed by the emotions differ in daily lives because our emotions are also different daily. That really means emotions control us without any difficulty and we are controlled by them unconsciously. Consider the opposite. People are affected by the emotions. Say "someone feels an emotion and want to change it exactly what he or she wants". People try various solutions to control their emotions. For example, they suppress our angerness and sadness not to express to others. After that they commonly feel so tired that we can do nothing except getting rest or sleep. This kind of symptoms breaks the balance of biorhythm and occur disease in our bodies. Emotions normally give several influences intactly on us without any guarantee while we have to sacrifice something like our bodies to deal with the emotions. The contra is not always true although the definition seems true. 
 
 Let's consider the different emotions in different situations of every people to look at some examples of people trying to freely confront to their emotions. Humans face lots of situations while surviving in the society. Each of them can feel different emotions and even express differently in the same situations. People aim not to easily show their emotions and aim to "control" them in their social groups. For example, suppose your boss always gives much pressure on you but you have to follow him well to get a better promotion. In this case, you might feel angry with him and move to another company because you couldn't overcome the situation. Or you might feel happy and accept that you are developing from this situation. These two emotions are common in this situation and other emotions might not appear. The latter can be a good method but it might be hard for people. That means people feel and express their emotions but they don't decide them. What they should feel is determined by their emotions. 

 The thought of people who call themselves "mind cotroller" and some psychologists made the error on normal people's thought of their emotions. Even the inventions to change the identified emotions are considered impossible to be made and the ability to quite freely control our minds is still seemed wizardly nowadays, people unconsciously consider "control" on their emotions as a realistic fact. If someone is about to experiment his conscious emotions, he or she will find nothing.  

 Humans' imagination of their change and their infinite control over themselves but this is mostly impossible and can lead to misunderstading of themselves in real life.      

 The basic thing for this topic is how we define the emotion. As we can find around us, People define emotion in subtly different ways. The opinions over emotion are kind of various because we mention different definitions of it. However, more people think of emotion as fundamental in our body with more specific and convincing explanations. Most people confuse emotion with feeling. Some say that a feeling is the response part of the emotion. (MK projects by Mary Kurus). Dr. Maurice Elias defines that “Emotions are human beings, warning systems as to what is really going on around them." The definition of emotion for this argument accepts the various fields in our bodies.

 An article from MK projects directly shows an example why humans are not controlling their emotions:
 Think of the people who go along day after day seeming to function normally,  and all of a sudden they will explode in anger at something that seems relatively trivial and harmless.  That is one sign of someone who is trying to control or repress their emotions but their repressed emotions are leaking out.
 The more anyone tries to control their emotions the more they resist control, and the more frightened people eventually become at what is seen to be a “loss of emotional control”.  It is a vicious circle.
 Human emotions affect mostly the whole part of ourselves. They do not only give influence to our physical and mental condition. They attract reaction to our response and processing systems that are internal, and affect social relationships, and daily lives that are external. To analogize, human being is a robotic creatures for the emotions. Emotions trigger naturally and they don't accept our awareness before they make a process.

 David Matsumoto from San Francisco State University suggests the process of triggering emotions and its response system. Perception turns to physical and psychological schemas. Apparisal happens immediately and unconsciously and matches to decide an emotional response. If it doesn't match, the people continue to scan the environment. This process happens by cooperating each other and continues automatically. After the process, people show some basic kinds of response systems such as physiological reactions, cognitions, feelings, and expressions. For example, some people pee when they are nervous or afraid. This happens so naturally and instantaneously that we could not recognize. The "unconcious" reactions happen that we could not intentionally decide the expressions and feelings we want. Also, David mentioned that people have basic emotions that contains many other varied emotions. They are anger, contempt, disgust, fear, enjoyment, sadness, and surprise. Everyone simply shows these emotions daily. Even though we try to repress our emotions, we are not able to stray from the range of our basic emotions.

 My argument is kind of abstract but it can be easily examined with our experiences. There would be some people who are against with my opinion. They would mention some steps to control emotions, successful experiments on human mind, and the advantages of letting emotions catch us up. However, these arguments are contradicted. First, the steps and therapies, suggested by lots of people who insist that they have their own know-how, are not the right methods for controlling emotions. They think methods such as taking some breath when they feel urgent or angry and ignoring the situation are great for controlling the emotions but the word 'control' itself doesn't fit for these methods. We can just ease or repress our emotions but the bad emotions might stay into the memory. The memory can bring the emotions back whenever it can, thus making you feel uncomfortable. It would be better to use the term 'delay the emotions' rather than 'control the emotions'. Second, the recent experiments succeeded in treating human mind seem as the great achievements but they still relied on the electronic devices. What if people do not have any devices when they are about to manage their emotions? They may not able to manage their emotions. We can not acutally manage our emtions without our own long trial and training. The devices can connect our brain each other for sharing some signals but they don't go well for our emotional training. To find the ways to control emotions, people should practice other experiments without using any devices. Third, some people say that just letting emotions catch you up in any ways could be better than bothering on each emotions. However, that is also not a good idea for our mental health. Human emotions are associated with many things in ourselves. There is one thing that all humans mention as a 'the cause of all kinds of disease'. That is stress, which people always receive and release in every moment. We would get stress if we just bury the emotions inside ourselves. Also we would unconsciously get the stress if we just let the emotions do on their own because it is hard to estimate what emotions we would feel and the results. Human, to get to know, is so senstive that they easily get stress.        

 It is regarded as really natural in many project articles that human emotions are triggered unconciously and give lots of symptoms on anyhow humans treat them. It is true in part that we can sometimes repress our emotions while not getting any symptoms. However, what we have to keep in mind is that human is never able to surpass the unconsciousness. The emotion, to say again, is a powerful and main source  affects our whole physical and psychological self. It is possible for people to at least manage their emotions but actually most humans don't know the right time and place to deal with emotions. We need to find ways to efficiently figure out and accept our emotions and some methods to appropriately release and repress them rather than waste time to dominate the emotion. The basic emotions are completely same among us so we can give hands to each other for stable expression of emotions by interacting in society. But it is still easy to ignore the unconcious and automatic triggering of emotions ,and overween when human becomes comfortable with their emotions by practicing simple management.

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