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Human is Not Controlling Emotion

 


 We human beings live with emotion like most living creatures do. We feel happy when everthing goes well, sad when someone unexpectedly leaves us, angry when something annoys or bothers us, and many kinds of emotions 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 can 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 emotions. They can happen because our emotion is automatically triggered before we notice it. We might think that emotions can be controlled by humans because we feel them differently, but humans are not able to highly control their emotions.

 Emotions affect our physical bodies and mental. According to MK projects,  people who just ignore and repress their emotions are setting themselves up for physical illnesses. Also in the MK, emotions that are felt but buried in the body can cause serious illnesses such as cancer, arthritis, and other types of chronic illnesses. Everybody knows and feels that 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 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 practice various trials to control their emotions. For example, they suppress our angers and sadness not to express them to others. After that, they commonly feel so tired that they can not do anything 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. That's why we sometimes have to sacrifice anything like our bodies to deal with the emotions. The only complex thing, people necessarily live with, is the emotion.  
 
 Let's consider the different emotions of every person in different situations by looking at some examples of people trying to confront freely to their emotions. Humans face lots of situations while surviving in the society. Each of them feels 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 to get a better promotion. In this case, you might feel angry with him and move to another company because you couldn't overcome this situation. Or you might regard it as a happy chance and accept that you are getting developed 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 all people to choose it. That means people feel and express their emotions, but they are hardly able to decide what they want. What they should feel is determined by their emotions. 

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

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

 So 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 emotion. However, more people think of emotion as fundamental in our body that can be described with more specific and convincing explanations. Most people confuse emotion with feeling. Some say that the 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 describes the various fields in our bodies that affect the emotion.

 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 the whole part of ourselves mostly. They do not only give influence on our physical and mental condition. They attract the reaction to our response and processing systems that are internal, and affect social relationships, and daily lives that are external. To say an inference, the human being is a robotic creature for the emotions. Emotions trigger naturally and they don't accept our awareness before they make the 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. Appraisal 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. Peeing happens so naturally and instantaneously that we do not consciously recognize. The 'unconscious' reactions happen that we could not intentionally decide the expressions and feelings we want. Also, David Matsumoto mentioned that people have basic emotions that contain 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 disagree with my opinion. They would mention some steps to control emotions, successful experiments on a 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 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 if we use the term 'delay the emotions' rather than 'control the emotions'. Second, the recent experiments succeeded in treating the human mind seem like 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 actually manage our emotions without our long trial and training. The devices can connect our brain each other for sharing some mere 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 emotion. However, that is also not a good idea for our mental health. Human emotions are associated with many factors in ourselves. There is one thing that all humans mention as '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 sensitive that they easily get stress.        

 It is regarded as natural in many project articles that human emotions are triggered unconsciously 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 the human is never able to surpass the unconsciousness. The emotion, to say again, is a powerful and main source that  affects our whole physical and psychological self. It is possible for people to at least manage their emotions but most humans don't know the right time and place to deal with emotions. We need to find ways to figure out efficiently and accept our emotions and some methods to release appropriately 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 unconscious and automatic triggering of emotions, and become overweened when human becomes comfortable with their emotions by practicing simple management.



References


David Matsumoto (2003) Emotions – How To Understand, Identify and Release Your Emotions. Retrived from
http://www.mkprojects.com/pf_emotions.html

Dr. Maurice Elias (2003) Emotions – How To Understand, Identify and Release Your Emotions. Retrived from
http://www.mkprojects.com/pf_emotions.html

Marry Kurus (2003) Emotions – How To Understand, Identify and Release Your Emotions. Retrived from
http://www.mkprojects.com/pf_emotions.html

MK Project (2003) Emotions – How To Understand, Identify and Release Your Emotions. Retrived from
http://www.mkprojects.com/pf_emotions.html

The Device for human mind control . Retrived from
http://www.dvice.com/2013-8-28/human-mind-control-just-became-reality