Emotions

Last time I wrote about this topic, I was quite edgy and had just learned that these things we call emotions are simply neurotransmitters. I thought I was so cool when I learned that and went around telling everyone their emotions don't mean anything. I'm a little older now and I've learned that they really don't mean anything. I'm kidding. Today I want to write at you about the purpose of these emotions these neurotransmitters that are simultaneously the cause of your suffering and the cause of your ecstasy.

As we said, emotions are caused by the firing of your synapses through the firing of neurotransmitters. No need to go too deep because I think everyone is a psychologist these days and this seems to be common information.

Let's analyze that. the word, neurotransmitter. Neuro relates to the brain and transmitter means messenger of delivering something. This gives us the answer to what the purpose of emotions are. They're messengers. They give you information, they tell you things.

Where it seems that everyone is going wrong these days, where everyone is running into problems is because they're letting their emotions control them, they are acting on the emotion. When they get a red-letter they want to punch something, they get a blue letter they want to cry. The reason for this is that people don't know how to read the letters if they even know how to open the envelope.

Emotions simply try to tell you things. They tell you you're uncomfortable, they tell you that you want something to change. Sometimes these messages are unreasonable and you need to unsubscribe from those emails—at what point does this analogy not make sense?

One example of this is a guy that had a message with "anger" written on it. He got this because of racial injustice in America. This man's name was Martin Luther King Jr. He was mad, and he used that anger to understand that he wanted something to change, he used that anger as motivation. He used that anger to fuel him, motivate him to act.

Maybe one day on the podcast I'll explain the process of opening and reading those messages given to you by your emotions so stay tuned on that. For now, I want to leave you with this: you shouldn't act solely on your emotions, understand what they're telling you and use those messages to fuel whatever the emotion is telling you to do.