feelings

character

• emotions are the product of an inferior part of humans
• they must be controlled, suppressed
• they are unseemly

health

• feelings are neither good nor bad - they just are
  • suppressing feelings will make you sick
  • and they will manifest themselves, anyway
• feelings tell us what's going on within us and around us; each feeling is a response to something
  • fear: "this is not a safe situation; I'd better get out"
  • sadness: the healing feeling
  • anger: "someone has violated my boundaries"
  • joy: everything is right
• compulsions, obsessions and addictions serve to
  • keep feelings and painful memories below the level of consciousness