MerlinofEngland

Your Prime Directive is: To Survive.

Humans evolved from different species of gorilla, monkey, chimpanzee &etc. This occurred in different parts of the world at different times. The Gorillas were the first, in Africa, followed by the Chimpanzee in India, the Ape in Europe, the Lima in China and then the others. When these animals realized that something had to change within themselves, if they were to live in the environments that they were forced to survive in, to move out from the jungle environment and to move into the open plain environment. That awareness was past down the generations until the body changed its form to allow for a larger brain to be formed inside the skull after birth. There are three types of humans on this planet. It does not matter from which race of gorilla, monkey or ape you came from.

There is a sliding scale to the evolutionary process of humans, with three distinctly different body shapes.

Each body type has it own good properties and inherent problems typical to it's shape.

Adult conversations

Conversations with others, mostly depends upon word association. If I were to say I have a red car, Your brain will search your memory for these combinations just like an internet search engine will, and find all kinds of junk related to these criteria, then your self importance grabs one and compels you to talk about your red mini you had many years ago, then your mind conjours up that time and you talk about your experiences in your red mini. Which no one wants to know about. I just made the statement. I have a red car. Your self importance had to have the last word as you believe that you and your story is far more important than what I had to say. So now you have the floor and everyone is looking at you. Now you have to make up another story to keep up your little fame game, and you wouldn’t notice that I had left the building. So just shut the fuck up and listen, you might learn something!

Emotions

Emotions and feelings are different. Feelings are a reaction to what we perceive, while emotions are a product of thought. Feelings do not use much energy, but emotions consume large amounts. Emotions cannot be produced if you are without thoughts. As we relegate perception to second place, our emotions put us in the situation of being able to manage our reality in a sensible way only with some difficulty. Typical examples of emotions are Anger, envy, greed, self-pity. None of these emotions can be produced without the appropriate thoughts to accompany them. Who can become angry without thinking first? No-one! To become angry, we firstly have to tell ourselves that what someone did to you was unjust, that you deserve better, or something similar.
Try to make yourself angry without thoughts or words, have a go.

For example; If a lover feels jealous, when he sees his girlfriend talking and smiling to another man. The facts are; there is a woman (girlfriend) talking to a man (stranger) and she smiles. Are these facts what produce the energy-wasting emotion of jealousy? No! The lover, beginning with his personal history (maybe he has seen too many movies, or heard too many love songs on the radio, or witnessed the lack of love between his parents. Upon seeing his girlfriend conversing and smiling, begins compulsively to talk to himself; “She has no reason to cheat on me. I should be the only person capable of making her smile. I never cheat on her, at least not so blatantly: She doesn’t respect me.”
It is this type of thinking, not the facts themselves, that provokes the painful and energy consuming experience of jealousy. It does not matter if in reality the woman is talking to her cousin, or a friend, or in fact has another lover; the jealousy emanates only from the imagination of the jealous boyfriend.

Once submerged in an emotional tidal wave, reality drifts further and further from us; the more we talk to our-selves, the less we perceive, and so on. So far from reality, how can we hope to handle it? We become violent, making it easy to finish off the last traces of love or beauty that otherwise would have been present, and we still feel our-selves the victim. This is how we waste energy.

Like the rest of our everyday actions, emotions are repetitive and are determined by personal history. So everyone has his/her own emotional habits. That is your personal way of wasting energy and of weakening the self. It is not hard to find that the conflicts and emotional problems of our lives manifest themselves in endless cyclical repetitions. Even if we change people and places, the problems are repeated time and time again. This applies to all the emotions. They are pernicious and they create themselves. Now you know the secret that emotions cannot be produced without the appropriate thoughts.

Applied practically gives us a way to save energy. Should you find yourself on the edge of an emotionally agitated state, you simply enter into a state of silence, and the emotion cannot then take place. Or change the content of your thoughts. Or put them in the form of a rhyme; make a song of your thoughts. Or repeat the times tables. Or sing a nursery rhyme. In all cases the result is the same: without the appropriate thoughts the emotion cannot be produced.

Merlin.