Modes of ^Emotion

Emotions can ^Be some of the biggest distortions, and their ~lack~ or ~excess~ can cause some of the biggest distortions.  So ^Be wise and ^Moderate their use! 

Common emotions include ^Anger, ^Desire, ^Disgust, ^Encourage, ^Fear, ^Shame, ^Sorrow and ^Surprise.  ^Surprise is also a mode of ^Boundary, so it is discussed in another chapter.  Many emotions such as these are universal and necessary but experience each one in ~wisdom~ and ~respect~. 

Our ~emotion~ is like a small fish.  ^When from a ~good~ source, freshly gathered and properly prepared, it can ^Be quite the ~reward~.  ^When we or others abandon or carelessly tend even one, it may cause a whole ~family~ to suffer.  Or taken from a questionable source it may cause ourselves, others and our world to ^Be quite ~sick~ and needlessly.  That's okay.  All ^Who ^Care to ^Look with ~love~ may pitch in to ^Forgive, ^Help and ^Rest until ~clean~. 

Sometimes emotions ^Build up and can lead to extremes such as ~mania~, ~addiction~, ~depression~, ~madness~, ~terror~, ~hate~, ~shock~, amnesia, anosognosia, catatonia or psychosis.  In these cases our emotions are ~no~ longer serving a ~good~ ~purpose~, so let's ~name~ these troubling times emotional failure.  ^MESH has two tools in particular to ^Try to ^Avoid or ^Turn an emotional failure around.  The first tool is to ^Fail.  ^When extreme, ^Try a ^Perfect ^Fail.  The second tool is for ^When ~fail~ fails, and it is to get ^Help ^Now. 

I ^Believe the rudiments of addressing emotional failure include having a buddy: someone we can ^Learn to ^Trust patiently, in ~privacy~ and ~respect~.  Our buddy must ^Work to perceive yet manage their own emotions well, so they are ready to ^Help.  Our buddy must ^Be ~helpful~ to ^Help us properly.  Our buddy concerns themselves over our emotions and our ^Daily-self-care ~who~, in our time of ~need~, takes up ^Daily-self-care on our behalf while helping us ^Surrender adult responsibility and behavior (^Agency) with ~minimum~ ~force~ and ~maximum~ ~respect~ for our case. 

Curiously, during emotional failure we tend to transfer our ~emotion~ and/or the ~strength~ of it to those around us.  ^No, not like telepathy, but like dominoes.  For us ^Who are experiencing emotional failure it can appear all around us have ~lost~ touch too.  A buddy may observe this transitive effect of ~emotion~ to ^Help, for it is an important clue regarding emotional failure and to its cause.  Other contributors to emotional failures include a ~strong~ ~lack~ or ~excess~ of ~daily-self-care~ or ~forgiveness~.  To ^Become and ^Stay in touch emotionally while we ^Maintain ~poise~ is a rare skill and I commend any interest in it.  ^Be a buddy today!