Purity of emotions and mind
 

 Todor A. Dimitrov

Abstract

Here are exposed two officially classified kinds of intelligence – intelligence of emotions and intelligence of mind. Also, they are substances of our purity. They are subjects of analysis and treatment of two separated sciences - the first is called psychology and the second is called psychiatry which is formed during XIX and XX centuries from the first one. In comparison with the psychiatry, the psychology is more abstract science but still is called science because of its proven results on patients with mostly boundary disorders. Today these two sciences are complementary to each other which leads to fantastic results in the name of normality in this so confused, upset and aggressive human world. The term “normality” does not mean grey monotony or lack of diversity, as those who are more emotional, impulsive and expansive like to say for justification for their behavior. The term “normality” includes also normal presence of all kinds of emotions. The essence of the emotional intelligence is the ability of the Emotional Lobes (one for each hemisphere) of the brain to form the most appropriate emotion. The essence of the intelligence of mind is the ability of mind to form the most appropriate reaction after precise filtration of all emotions that come out. This is also ability to understand these emotions, their complexity, and the complexity of the current situation. The proper filtration depends on this kind of understanding.

In this part the reference for used literature will not be used, as it was in the first two parts. I will not explain here the birth and history of science and I will not mention names of their pioneers with their achievements because this is not an educational course. The purpose of this work is to explain what the purity is, to expose its components and to explain how and mainly why we should achieve it with the help of the scientific proven truth and the help of important ancient sources. In addition, I want to remind you that in ancient times the standards for verbal and emotional purity have been higher than now.

Summary

Emotions

Sensations are used to be observed in every living matter that is equipped with nervous system. The feelings, i.e., emotions, are more complicated but could be connected also to current sensations, if they are present. Human beings receive sensations from their 5 perceptions 24 hours a day, but don’t have emotions all the time.

When do we have emotions? There are two ways in which your brain generates emotions. The first is when you are involved in some situation – pleasant or extreme, where you play main or secondary role and do wrong or right things, or you are a victim, i.e., you receive emotions because some reason. Situations may appear when people like or dislike each other. This is the normal way to receive some emotion. The second way is when your mind plays imaginary games of prediction, suggestion, or searches explanation with lack of knowledge and understanding, or just fantasizing. Many individuals this way could lose connection to the true reality because the brain could accept a part of this theatre as reality, smuggling it through the consciousness invisibly and memorizing it. This is a way in which the psychological pathology comes – the suggestion. It could come from the self or from somebody else.

Whatever is the way of emotional initiation, emotions have the ability to grow dramatically. In some persons this process is constitutional, in others this process starts after injury or extremely bad experience, especially if it happened constantly. This mechanism does not stop but works like a generator of undamping (non-fading) oscillations. If such person cannot find a way to control, throw away and realize this energy for good, his psychic and brain could be damaged seriously. 

What is the way to avoid such damages? At first when we develop emotional intelligence and after that comes the mind intelligence. It begins in our childhood because if not, it will be difficult to develop it. We must start to teach ourselves to choose the appropriate emotion for every situation after understanding every level of the situation. Without understanding we will feel the wrong emotion. Usually, our parents and teachers should teach us this way in our early childhood, otherwise later we will need a psychologist. We should try to understand every kind of emotions and to connect it to the relevant reason.

How to start? First, we need a “calm heart” and silence to hear ourselves. Then we should start to recognize our thoughts, our feelings, our ego. We should classify our feelings, define those feelings that make us to suffer, and designate them for transformation or annihilation. For sure, we should separate ourselves from the reason for these negative emotions. We need time to realize how little and helpless we are in this huge Universe, and how short we live. We have very short time to enjoy the beauty of the art of all the forms of matter created with so much effort for so long, to enjoy our lives and the life of every living being, to enjoy the right of choice and the power to create for we have been created by a powerful Creator by His own image. How wonderful gift is the life when we can realize that if we could stop to hurt each other, we will begin to love, enjoy and develop our lives! There are many levels of love but the first and most important is the love that makes you to enjoy and appreciate the existence, existence of everything that supports your life. We must appreciate every act of goodness from people, every good behavior, every right attitude. Along with this, we will not forget the pain and suffering – there are many disasters, diseases and disorders that could hurt us.

Then we need to call the humbleness – acceptance of our beautiful world, nature, our wonderful planet, the sun that hugs us in warm and bright hug, which supports all the life on this planet, acceptance of other people’s life. They also are human beings like you. Yes, among them are walking hard criminals and terrible people, but not all the people are monsters. Yes, may be some of them are primitive for their lack of understanding, but not monsters. If you are a believer, it would be so easy to achieve the condition of calm heart and humble mind because the prayers and blessings really can give you peace and acceptance. The process of reading of defined parts of text from the Bible also gives you the same. There are so many commandments given to teach you how to find peace. The more you read them, the more you realize that they change you for good.

Through the entire text in Torah we can see that all Israeli men are treated as brothers. In the next part IV I will represent to you verses from the text that teach the people of right attitude and behavior toward their brothers.

You can clean up your soul from negative emotions when you constantly try to do the right thing. This way you will be satisfied by yourself which will automatically generate positive effect on your mind and emotions. To look for the right thing is constitutional for every normal human being since its creation. When you let be involved in something wrong that people do, you lose your purity. Even if you follow the crowd unconsciously in their crime, you will know deep in yourself that you are wrong. You cannot get away from this supreme judgement. Every fault expels the purity and writes its record in your subconscious structure. Finally, when you see yourself in the mirror, you will be disgusted by yourself. That is why we should look critically at ourselves. Otherwise, the world will be fulfilled by sin and crime, and will become the ugliest and most disgusting place in the Universe. Be sure, this has not been God’s plan. One of indications of humanity is self-control. This is a subject of our mind intelligence.

There are paragraphs in the Bible that take care for your purity along with the Ten Commandments that you should know and keep in your mind:

„Honor you father and your mother for being long your days on earth” [Shemot/Exodus 20:11];

“Do not kill; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not bear false witness against your fellowman (neighbor)” [Shemot/Exodus 20:12];

“Do not desire the house of your fellowman (neighbor)… and anything that belongs to your fellowman (neighbor)” [Shemot/Exodus 20:13];

“Do not spread a false rumor. Put not your hand together with the sinner for not being a witness of a violence.

Do not follow the multitude in the evil and not respond to a dispute for being able to follow the multitude and deviate the judgement” [Shemot/Exodus 23:1,2];

“Keep yourself away from a false word. Innocent and righteous man you should not kill for I will not justify the sinner” [Shemot/Exodus 23:7].

As you see, Torah guides you against your wrong or terrible wishes. In eastern cultures (as it is in the Buddhism) the wishes are appointed to be our biggest enemies because we always are tended to serve them. When you become a ruler of your ego and your wishes, you will be emotionally and mentally free. This is also a job of our mind intelligence.

The word in Hebrew for a fellowman has a few meanings: a neighbor, friend, sibling, and everyone from our surrounding environment like our colleagues as well.

Mind

From the exposition above we understand what the main function of mind intelligence is – self-control. Self-control is used to be learned in our childhood. Self-control gives us power to filtrate our emotions and wishes. Why? Because some of them are ridiculous, some of them are irrelevant, some of them are not realizable. Many of people’s wishes and emotions are wrong and could hurt somebody else who could be innocent (in most cases we don’t know it), or could hurt more people, or could damage the environment. If we are outraged by some terrible criminal or pervert sinner and his acts frustrate us, bring us to anger, and we start to whish immediate punishment for him, then our mind intelligence immediately should remind us that there is a court with judges and public prosecutor who should judge and punish him for his wrong deeds. Judgement and sentencing are their functions, not ours, for they have been educated and authorized for this. We, the society, are responsible to bring him to the court. We must judge the sinner for ourselves and not follow him in his crime, keeping our purity and innocence. If the judge is blind from corruption, there is another way for his punishment – the God’s hand. This kind of situations is described many times in the Bible but it is not the place to discuss it. In this aspect, the well-known sentence preached in some religious organizations: “Do not judge for not being judged”, is absolutely wrong (no matter how they explain it) because it stands against the basic order of our world. This sentence could throw whole the world in a total mess, in a huge mud of crime and sin, and it does not bring any purity. It can turn our world into hell. Actually, we are very close to this moment…

This is schematically how the self-control works. On a certain level of the human evolution appears a new section in the Psychic mechanism that estimates the processes in and between the Superego, Ego and the subconsciousness called Id. This section, we called Censorship, develops many defensive mechanisms who protect the Ego from negative wishes and emotions by a setup of compromises between those 3 components. The Censorship usually produces automatic response against the pressure from Id even without confirmation from Ego. The Censorship is a function of the mind intelligence that estimates the consequences of realization of these wishes and emotions that are coming also from the Id. Its signal system communicates with the Ego and inform it for reaching the limit of tolerability to these processes, after which could come a psychological collapse and negative change of the personality. If the person has developed an instinct of self-preservation, its Ego declares submission, the Censorship produces the relevant defensive mechanism and turns it on. This way you are secured. You just need to take care for the volume of energy that comes from those unrealized needs, wishes and emotions. There are many ways to do this for good.

How could we develop our mind intelligence? With thinking. Thinking to find every possible way to escape difficult situations and the dependency on their derivative bad, or unrealizable, or ridiculous emotions. If the escape is not possible, we must think to find the most appropriate reaction. We need to find the reasons for those emotions, to estimate whether these reasons are real and significant or not, and to find a way for further emotional transformation. It could take some more time for whole this process. This is everyone’s personal drama and obligation, our responsibility to ourselves and to the society.

We can develop our mind intelligence not only through our experience but also through other people’s experiences. It appears that we should develop the ability of communication for we are social beings.

Another way for mind development is reading. There are many books that we can study from, as well as from Tanakh. Along with Torah, there are many other books in the Bible fulfilled with so many stories about so many people with their own drama. That is why the Bible is called also a “best seller”. After the Bible we could take books or articles written by professionals in the subject of psychology and medicine. This way we can understand how emotions work on microbiologic and organic level in our body.

Another way for mind development are the intellectual games, prepared list of daily tasks and tasks at your workplace. For intellectual games we consider games that train your logical, combinative, associative thinking, your math abilities, your linguistic abilities, and your memory. It will be good if you start to study another language. Scientists discovered that foreign languages unlock more mind resources. Languages also train your memory.

Conclusion

Everything that brings to us clearance for the mind and comfort for the soul together, is connected to the purity.

It is important to clear and heal our emotions for bringing clearance to our mind and this process is supported by our mind. The food and other substances that we take are also important because their ingredients can help for the initiation of hormones’ production that have direct and indirect influence on our brain, pituitary gland, and hypothalamus: adrenaline, nor-adrenaline, serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, testosterone, estrogen, cortisol, GABA etc. Our emotions are able to activate or disactivate these hormones’ receptors in our body which reflects on the work of our brain and vegetative nervous system. In consequence, this reflects on the work of the organs in our body. There are many more substances in our bodies that depend on our mind and emotions, on how we act to support them.

As you see, the Human being is very complexed and complicated. It takes so huge and great work to achieve such excellence. Because of this, every one of us must, have to, is obliged to respect and love him/herself, to respect and love every other human being, and to respect its right to exist.

In this part I think is not necessary to cite any specific ancient source of script except the Bible or any scientific article because everything mentioned here is already well-known, well understood, and is much more than any ancient script can contribute. I just compress it.