Feeling

Why is it an initial reaction to feel ashamed at strong feelings? Usually these feelings are pointers, allowing us to delve into our subconsicous and find out what the real meaning behind the top emotion is. For example, if you were to find out your neighbor just got a brand new car and you immediately start feeling jealous of his car. This would seem to many to be just another jealosy issue. It is, but in order to fix this problem of jealosy, one must first find out what the lower layers of emotion are.

Many would stop at the first layer, and call it a day. I mean, it's embarassing enough that your neighbor got a better car, why make it worse by thinking about it? It might actually help one to skip this same routine when another situation like this one arises. Do the work now, have it pay off later type of thing. In my opinion, when one feels jealosy, it is most likely an insecurity issue. Jealosy is just an emotion created to protect the ego. Once you become less subservient to your ego, you are able to explore emotions more and "disarm" them at a lower or base level feeling. To me, it seems that the lower you go to explore where an emotion stems from, it creates a much better result of finding out what the real issue is and solving it.

The bottom line is that I feel that I need to be less of a slave to my ego than I am currently. The ego, while fun at times, seems to me to be more of a flaw than anything else.