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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 664445" data-attributes="member: 8704">So I guess I am right that you are not striving to become a emotionless animaton. I think it's odd that when people talk about controlling emotions they end up labeled as emotionless. It seems to me that the emotions you are attempting to control are the bad ones, and that is just good general advice. Aside from the philosophy behind all this I figure everybody is attempting to do the same, minimize the bad and maximize the good, people just use different methods. Well most people think I minimize the good and thrive on the bad, but actually I can get more laughs by centering on the bad, it's a character flaw, I try to make other people happy by making myself look so much worse than them that they have to feel good about their situation. Most people who know me never ask me "how was your week?" because they know I will actually tell them. I sort of revel in my emotional whirlwind, I have a very hard time controlling it so I just go where it sweeps me. My mother has the same problem but she is always miserable, I at least try to enjoy the bad for what it is. One day my head will pop like a extra from scanners but until then I'll just keep making the best of it. Pain is actually not as hard as people believe to control, and you also can build up a tolerance for pain too. Aside from the many pain killing drugs out there, there is the fact that people can learn to block out those neural impulses and shrug off the pain as if they didn't feel it, whether they felt it but didn't acknowledge that they felt it or they didn't feel it at all is irrelevant. Pain is just a symptom of something else, it is a biological function and not a emotion at all. It's not about psychic powers or magic body control, it's normally about people being attuned to their body and having adapted their minds. Emotional pains, such as hate self doubt, loathing etc..... really are not pain they are emotional states and they can be controlled much easier. Guy cuts you off in traffic, well just don't let it get to you and wham you have overcome that emotion, if people didn't do this all the time we would all be a bunch of raving lunatics, blame yourself, blame others, how about just don't bother blaming anybody and getting on with your life, it seems to work ok in all sorts of situations for everybody. We all are doing the same basic things here we are all just using different beliefs and methodology to get to that point.</blockquote>

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