Emotions, on a very simple level, are the primary tool your body uses to communicate with you, the Spirit. When you are not aware of yourself as a spiritual being, your emotions can often take control. They were never meant to do so. As a spiritual being, you can be anywhere, anytime. At present, you have created a manifest body to reside in, and your body has its own energy system. As Spirit, you do not operate from emotions the same way that bodies do. Emotions are primarily a body phenomenon. Their major role is to tell you what is going on for your body.
You are not your body. You are a spiritual being that ultimately exists outside of time and space. Your body, however, is of the earth and is designed to exist in linear time. It is, therefore, always in present time, and it goes through innumerable experiences that it needs to communicate to you. "I feel sad. I feel joyful. I feel angry." As Spirit, you need to listen to these emotional messages. It is not advisable to shut the emotions down, nor allow them to take over. Human bodies are great communicators. They will always tell you exactly where they are at and, as Spirit, you need to stop and listen to what they are telling you.
Once you have listened to the emotion and received the information that your body has communicated to you, you can then make an informed choice. You are, in fact, the choice-maker. You as Spirit were ultimately meant to be in charge of your space. Part of taking responsibility for your space, being in charge, is managing the emotions that your body will continually use to tell you what is going on for it.
If your body gives you a piece of information, for example, that it is sad, then you can make a choice. What do you need to do? At that point, the message has been delivered. You can receive it, experience it, decide what, if anything you need to do, and then, you can shift from that emotion, if you so choose, to another which perhaps you find more appropriate. You do not have to sit there and be overwhelmed by sadness. You have a choice. If you are not listening to your body, then it is going to keep on repeating the message: "I'm sad. I'm sad. I'm sad." You can go on like that for months and years if you are not really hearing and inquiring what the body is sad about. Denying the cause of the emotion leads to greater imbalance on an energy level and in your life. Remember it is your body that is sad, not you as Spirit. You can fully experience your emotions without becoming them and letting them take over.
You have, most likely, experienced moments when all you could see was the sadness or the anger in a situation. The sadness or anger was all that you could experience at that time. That is what is meant by the term "body-senior" or "becoming your emotions". You let the emotion own you. It was never meant to be that way. When you let the emotion own you, the body goes off on a tangent. It behaves in a way that it would normally never do if you were "home", if you were present as Spirit. You can regain spiritual authority of your personal space by getting back in the center of your head, grounding, experiencing the emotion and listening to the communication from your body.
Most people have certain emotions that they are not allowed to own. Perhaps you feel that you are not allowed to feel anger or sadness. It is healing to simply experience those emotions until you are comfortable with having them as part of your life. You can own the whole range of emotions. They are all wonderful. One emotion is not better or worse than any other. You can have the whole range so your body has a full vocabulary with which to communicate to you. If you have clear communication with your body and access to all the body's emotions, then you will hear your body as it communicates to you, as it tells you what is going on for it, as it goes through life's challenges and triumphs.
Every emotion has a vibration or a tone, just like every musical note does. So the lowest tones come from the lowest emotions. The very bottom note is what we call the emotion of spiritual death. This is even below apathy. It is rock bottom, the lowest vibration there is. The next frequency up is the emotion of apathy: "Who cares? Whatever." Apathy is beyond caring. Next, we come to the vibration of boredom. It is a step up from apathy. Then sadness and one step up from sadness is anger. Anger can, in fact, be a very healing emotion, and a powerful tool to use if you can stay neutral. You may have bought into the programming that says, "Good girls don't get angery, or nice boys don't get mad." Anger is valid. You simply need to remember to own it for you and not throw it at others, which only creates more problems, and more karma to clean up later. The next notch up is the emotion of amusement. Above amusement is joy, then enthusiasm. The highest emotion there is we call freedom. There are no limits with the emotion of freedom.
When your body is vibrating at sadness or below, there is less energy running. It is like the RPM’s in a car, the engine is running slower and so everything runs slower. It is a more difficult place to live and it is difficult to make change from that low vibration. Everything takes more work because your energy is very low. When you turn your emotions up to amusement or above, it is easier to do everything from that place. If you take the emotion out of it and look at it as an energy vibration, it is a higher frequency and so your body will run easier with it. There is more energy. You will find that things change, move, clear a lot faster on all levels. These bodies are amazing. They are meant to run at high frequencies. The amount of energy that they are able to run is phenomenal. Most people run just a small piece of what is actually possible. The Spiritual Warrior is moving towards an emotional set point, a place where you are living your life easily at a frequency of amusement or above, perhaps joy, enthusiasm, or even freedom.
There are many situations where you may have a tendency to lose your space by matching someone else's emotion. For example, going into sympathy with somebody is a very common way to lose your space. The energetic states of sympathy, apathy, and empathy are closely related, but quite distinctive. Sympathy involves feeling a similar emotional response as someone else in a given issue. What affects one individual will affect the other. Imagine, for example, that your best friend got fired from their job, and notice what happens to your energy system. Sympathy can be a fourth chakra phenomenon. You begin to take on the other person's feelings. At a third chakra level, you will begin to get into responsibility. From that place you may take over and try to fix everything, and very likely "over heal" it.
Apathy refers to indifference, a lack of feeling or concern. We could call it the "give up" state. You are beyond caring or feeling. There is very little healing taking place from a state of apathy.
Empathy involves the ability to acknowledge your own and another's emotions and still keep them separate. You can experience the situation cleanly, without becoming it. You maintain your space, while acknowledging and validating yourself and others as Spirit. You recognize the ability all beings have to shift their energy, and heal. On a core level, empathy is saying yes to spirituality and the ability to own one’s power and heal.
