PROPOSITIONS:

For example:
A bitter taste is always a bitter experience, no matter how trivial.

For example:
If you’re in an emotional slump, it’s harder to sit up straight.

CORE HYPOTHESIS #2:

• There are four pure EMOTIONS each of which has a unique SENSATION. FEAR, SADNESS, ANGER and HAPPINESS are the four pure EMOTIONS. Vibration, stillness, pressure and lightness are the respective four pure SENSATIONS.

The Four Pure Emotions

EMOTIONS	Action	Feels like...
FEAR	Energize	Loose vibration
SADNESS	Digest experience	Soft stillness
ANGER	Change action	Tension/Pressure
HAPPINESS	Go same direction	Lightness/Momentum

CORE HYPOTHESIS #3:

• In the same sense that red, yellow and blue are the three pure colors that can combine to form seven primary colors, the four pure emotions combine to form 22 primary emotions.
• In other words, in the same way that artists mix the pure colors to get other colors, two SENSATIONS can be mixed to produce three new SENSATIONS.

Here’s how it goes:

In the following charts, the >, =, and < signs indicate the relative intensity of the two pure emotions.
“ > ” means “the first emotion has greater intensity than the second emotion in the mixture.”
“ = ” means “the first emotion is equal in intensity to the second emotion in the mixture.”
“ < ” means “the first emotion has less intensity than the second emotion in the mixture.”

Mixing the vibration of FEAR with
the stillness of SADNESS we get ..

SENSATION	Feels like	EMOTION	Tells us
tingling	vibration > stillness	VIGILANCE	Watch out
breaking	vibration = stillness	PAIN	Seek information
numbness	vibration < stillness	INDIFFERENCE	Stop caring

Mixing the vibration of FEAR with
the pressure of ANGER we get ..

SENSATION	Feels like	EMOTION	Tells us
pulling	vibration > tension	AVOIDANCE	Dodge, or retreat
touching	vibration = tension	COURAGE	Balance retreat with advance
pushing	vibration < tension	AGGRESSIVENESS	Advance

Mixing the vibration of FEAR with
the lightness of HAPPINESS we get ..

SENSATION	Feels like	EMOTION	Tells us
startling	vibration > lightness	SUPRISE	Something different but OK happened
jumping	vibration = lightness	JOY	Something is great
wiggling	vibration < lightness	EXCITEMENT	Something good is starting

Mixing the stillness of SADNESS with
the pressure of ANGER we get ..

SENSATION	Feels like	EMOTION	Tells us
contraction	stillness > tension	HELPESSNESS	Don't act
waiting	stillness = tension	PATIENCE	Wait
flailing	stillness < tension	IMPATIENCE	Act now

Mixing the stillness of SADNESS with
the lightness of HAPPINESS we get ..

SENSATION	Feels like	EMOTION	Tells us
resistance	stillness > lightness	PESSIMISM	Orient toward bad outcome
absorbtion	stillness = lightness	HUMILITY	Take in what comes
stretching	stillness < lightness	OPTIMISM	Orient toward good outcome

Mixing the stillness of ANGER with
the lightness of HAPPINESS we get ..

SENSATION	Feels like	EMOTION	Tells us
holding	tension > lightness	SELFISNESS	Hold on
manipulation	tension = lightness	COMPASSION	Balance holding on with letting go
releasing	tension < lightness	UNSELFISHNESS	Let go

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Summarizing the above in a single chart, we have...

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CORE  HYPOTHESIS #4

• This Alphabet of Emotion is the “ABC’s” of emotion and feelings.
• In other words, every EMOTION and FEELING is composed of some combination of the 22 primary sensations in the ‘Alphabet of Emotion’.
• These movements (also sensations and emotions) apply even to the cellular level.

COROLLARIES TO HYPOTHESIS #4

• The seriousness of misunderstanding or misperceiving emotions vastly exceeds the seriousness of differences in perceptions about colors.
• Everyone needs to overcome habits of suppressing or ignoring SENSATIONS in order to allow your emotions to communicate to you physically.

To overcome habits of mental suppression of your body‘s SENSATIONS, you need to be good at the moving with the movements of the primary SENSATIONS.

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Here’s how to move with the four pure EMOTIONS.        

To ‘physicalize’ FEAR...

Since FEAR feels like vibration, or shaking, which heats up your body...

• Shake all over like a Labrador retriever shaking out a coat full of water, spraying water everywhere.
• Do the ‘Elvis’ (knees vibrating toward and away from each other, elbows flapping in and out).
• Do the Twist (churning your limbs around your spine like a washing machine churning clothes)
• Jiggle a leg, or twitch some muscle, or an eye...or just blink fast, repeatedly.
• To let your face fully show fear, make a jaw-dropped ‘O’ of your mouth, and open your eyes wide. Take fast, shallow, panting breaths.

To ‘physicalize’ SADNESS...

Since SADNESS feels like stillness, which quiets your body and mind...

• Lean on your hand, or tip over onto your side on some pillows. Then, just breathe.
• Breathe easily in and out your nose to emphasize the digestive activity of sadness—‘respiration’ is ‘digestion' at the cellular level.
• Let your face rest. Imagine tensions anywhere in your body as coiled, dark springs. See them losing all their tension and loosely dropping to the ground, to be absorbed and recycled  by Mother Earth.
• Let your mind rest. Thank both your good and bad thoughts for wanting to help. Then imagine putting them in bubbles or balloons and letting them float up and away, into your unconsciousness.

To ‘physicalize’ ANGER...

Since ANGER feels like tension, which is the experience of strength or force in your body...

• Narrow your eyes and compress your lips into a horizontal line, teeth firmly together.
• Tighten all your muscles—abdominal and back muscles and straightened arms, legs, fingers and toes. Hold, isometrically for a few seconds, then release.
• If you care to repeat the sequence several times, you will note that a physical SENSATION of lightness will occur after several repetitions: the HAPPINESS that comes from safe application of ANGER.
• Breathe firmly and fully in your nose, exhale fully and firmly out your nose.
• If you care to repeat that breathing for a while, you will note that you will feel light-headed (hyper-ventilated): the feeling of runaway HAPPINESS that you can’t use quickly enough, from not applying your ANGER constructively.

To physicalize HAPPINESS...

Since HAPPINESS feels like lightness, which is the experience of momentum in your body...

• Sitting or standing, move in a dance-like, sinuous wave of your spine.
• Wave your mostly straightened arms and fingers.
• Wave your legs and toes without any sharp bends in joints.
• Smile with slightly parted lips, and bright eyes.
• Breathe lightly in and out your nose.
• If you have trouble getting a light SENSATION, go back to ANGER section above, and repeat tightening and letting go until lightness comes. Use the swaying and waving movements of this exercise to help the SENSATIONS of HAPPINESS reach your consciousness.

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For how to ‘physicalize’ other  emotions... Click here

CORE HYPOTHESIS #5:

• Every emotion is made up of five feelings:
  1. A drive (representing the “body” or purely physical level of experience).
  2. A passion (representing the “heart” or individual giftedness level of experience).
  3. An intuition (representing the “soul” or balancing, navigational level of experience).
  4. A perception (representing the “mind” or ordering of present level of experience).
  5. An expectation (representing the “spirit” or integration of past, present and future levels of experience).

An Alphabet of Feelings and Emotions

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CORE HYPOTHESIS #6:

• Certain parts of your body specialize in expressing and experiencing each of the four pure SENSATIONS.

COROLLARIES TO HYPOTHESIS #6:

• One division is segmented (see An Anatomy of Feelings below).
• One division is by meridians that originate in fingers and toes:
  1. Little finger to little toe = body (drives) meridian.
  2. Ring finger to fourth toe = heart (passions) meridian.
  3. Middle finger to third toe = soul (intuitions)meridian.
  4. Index finger to second toe = mind (perceptions) meridian.
  5. Thumb to big toe = spirit (expectations) meridian
     Note: Utilization of this level of division is practiced in yoga-Tantric “mudras” or finger positions.
• One division is biochemical (see below).
• One division is cellular (not clarified yet: membrane = body? nucleus = heart?)

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An Anatomy of Feelings

 

A Preliminary Biochemistry of Emotions

Pure Fear = Adrenaline
Pure Sadness = Serotonin
Pure Anger = Norepinephrine
Pure Happiness = Dopamine

CORE HYPOTHESIS #7:

• The energy expressed biochemically, physically and psychologically in organisms is correlated with all energy.

 COROLLARLIES TO HYPOTHESIS # 7:

• In terms of classical physics:
  1. Fear corresponds to heat.
  2. Sadness corresponds to space/time.
  3. Anger corresponds to force.
  4. Happiness corresponds to light.
• In terms of quantum physics:
  1. Fear corresponds to the weak force.
  2. Sadness corresponds to gravity.
  3. Anger corresponds to the strong force.
  4. Happiness corresponds to electromagnetism.