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The below is from my own experiences and research into the subject. I am not yet sure if this will work with everyone, a select few, or just myself.
I am not lying, I have no reason to. I created this because I found the whole thing fascinating. I'm sure at least some will share my sentiments.
Before trying these, keep in mind that I've yet to test going back and forth. I am not sure how difficult it is to kill emotion. If you are emotionless and you want to continue to remain emotionless, I suggest you do not do the exercises as there will be a chance that you will never be able to go back to being emotionless (I say this with all seriousness). Becoming emotionless is much more difficult than becoming emotional as it requires much concentration and control.
Emotions seem to be a very intense thing at times and not so intense at other times. The feeling that can only be described as a mish-mash of feelings, surging up and down, threatening to explode at any moment, growing ever more powerful, is an experience that people can only describe as reaching the breaking point of every emotion possible. Perhaps it is ectsasy? Perhaps it is deep depression? Mania? Pent up emotion? Regardless of what it may be, emotions appear to be a powerful thing and can even determine a person's actions in a situation.
Does everyone feel emotion? No. That isn't actually quite accurate. Some people feel emotion to such a small degree that they are virtually emotionless. This can only be described as feeling 100% calm 100% of the time. Imagine your entire family dying, but the most you feel is a tiny prick of emotion that only lasts an instant, going by so quickly you don't even know what passed, or perhaps you feel quite literally nothing at all, just shrugging off the event. Most people would be overcome with intense grief of some sort, sobbing, crying, and etc, so the first scenarios seem almost unreal. How on earth could a person ever not feel anything about that? How could a person care nothing for anything around them. It is possible, and not only that, but everyone seems to have the capability to reach that point.
Imagine being able to put emotion away into a deep box, and whenever you feel something really intense, the emotion just barely breeches that box, giving you that small tiny prick that you'd barely even notice. That is the only possible way to describe what someone in the first person's inner emotions would be structured like. Yes, they have full capability of feeling just as much emotion as anyone else, but they are quite literally unable to because they can't open that box.
Firstly, it is possible to create the box and put all emotion into that box, thus being able to feel nothing. Secondly, it is possible to break the box, but breaking the box will result in a meltdown of emotion, and I am entirely unsure of what happens at the very peak.
I am a person who has been in the first category for a very long time, so long in fact that I have forgotten what it was to feel. The pitiful weak emotions I felt were what I thought everyone felt, so it seemed unreal to me that someone could ever become so distressed over a situation that they would commit suicide, or that someone would be genuinely gateful about something, or a whole other slew of situations. To me, all these situations were just people playing out their expected roles. Little did I know, true emotion was something entirely different from what I felt day after day.
Recently, I discovered how to break the emotional box (on accident), resulting in a swarm of emotion that slowly rose and rose. I quickly got rid of them after some deep meditation, but regardless, that moment was life changing for me. For the first time, I was truly able to understand why people were driven to such actions and what people actually did.
Normally, laughing for me was accompanied with no emotion, or so little I couldn't even feel it. I had to actually practice how to laugh because the emotion I felt was barely enough to merit a tiny grin. I had to practice how to cry. I had to practice all of it, because I couldn't do it naturally.
When you don't feel emotion, you don't feel desire. To this day, I don't know what desire or envy feel like, nor do I know what love feels like. Any emotion that relates to another person I am lost about. The few emotions I do know I only know a small portion of, because I feel so little of them. Imagine my shock when I felt real emotion for the first time, what it must have been like. To say the least, I was overwhelmed, even though I probably only felt a small portion of what people normally feel (it was still weak, but much stronger than what I was used to, so strong I couldn't abate them in the slightest).
Now, while I'm not quite sure of the precise technique I use to quell emotion to nothingness, storing it away in a box, I am quite sure of what I did to break open that box. If you are one of those that feels little to nothing, this is your chance to truly feel alive, to truly feel connected, and to truly enjoy life rather than sitting on the sidelines, perplexed and detached.
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First, you must be able to bring out emotion. If you are someone who feels almost nothing, this should come quite naturally for you, because you have been manipulating your emotions all these years without even realizing it! You probably know what emotions feel like without even realizing it as well! Try feeling an emotion you've never felt before and you will be shocked that you actually feel it.
Slowly get a feel for bringing and putting down emotion. Putting down should be easy, just letting go. Afterwards, work at feeling multiple emotions at once. Next, try to feel all of them once, like you are searching for a specific emotion. Continue this for about a minute (it will probably be very difficult). When you stop, you will continue to feel lingering emotion, and you will be unable to put it down. It is slowly going to grow, surging up and down your body like a wave that is getting bigger and bigger. It will continue to grow and grow, and then I don't know what will happen because I stopped it very quickly with my killing emotion technique.
Have fun with your reawakened emotions. It will take some time getting used to, and you will probably feel entirely overwhelmed. I can only imagine going through the above will be similar to going into a maniacal meltdown.
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To kill emotion:
Calm yourself. Clear your mind. Keep yourself calm. Every time you begin to feel something, push it down deep into your stomach until you don't feel it. Keep doing this. As you do this more and more, you will slowly stop to feel until you feel very little to nothing. It can almost be described as meditation. Be warned that the only way you will really feel emotion at this point is by simulation!
Once you have been on both sides, it will probably be easier to move from side to side at will, being able to be a cool analytical thinker with ease one moment and then an emotional lover the next.
I am not lying, I have no reason to. I created this because I found the whole thing fascinating. I'm sure at least some will share my sentiments.
Before trying these, keep in mind that I've yet to test going back and forth. I am not sure how difficult it is to kill emotion. If you are emotionless and you want to continue to remain emotionless, I suggest you do not do the exercises as there will be a chance that you will never be able to go back to being emotionless (I say this with all seriousness). Becoming emotionless is much more difficult than becoming emotional as it requires much concentration and control.
Emotions seem to be a very intense thing at times and not so intense at other times. The feeling that can only be described as a mish-mash of feelings, surging up and down, threatening to explode at any moment, growing ever more powerful, is an experience that people can only describe as reaching the breaking point of every emotion possible. Perhaps it is ectsasy? Perhaps it is deep depression? Mania? Pent up emotion? Regardless of what it may be, emotions appear to be a powerful thing and can even determine a person's actions in a situation.
Does everyone feel emotion? No. That isn't actually quite accurate. Some people feel emotion to such a small degree that they are virtually emotionless. This can only be described as feeling 100% calm 100% of the time. Imagine your entire family dying, but the most you feel is a tiny prick of emotion that only lasts an instant, going by so quickly you don't even know what passed, or perhaps you feel quite literally nothing at all, just shrugging off the event. Most people would be overcome with intense grief of some sort, sobbing, crying, and etc, so the first scenarios seem almost unreal. How on earth could a person ever not feel anything about that? How could a person care nothing for anything around them. It is possible, and not only that, but everyone seems to have the capability to reach that point.
Imagine being able to put emotion away into a deep box, and whenever you feel something really intense, the emotion just barely breeches that box, giving you that small tiny prick that you'd barely even notice. That is the only possible way to describe what someone in the first person's inner emotions would be structured like. Yes, they have full capability of feeling just as much emotion as anyone else, but they are quite literally unable to because they can't open that box.
Firstly, it is possible to create the box and put all emotion into that box, thus being able to feel nothing. Secondly, it is possible to break the box, but breaking the box will result in a meltdown of emotion, and I am entirely unsure of what happens at the very peak.
I am a person who has been in the first category for a very long time, so long in fact that I have forgotten what it was to feel. The pitiful weak emotions I felt were what I thought everyone felt, so it seemed unreal to me that someone could ever become so distressed over a situation that they would commit suicide, or that someone would be genuinely gateful about something, or a whole other slew of situations. To me, all these situations were just people playing out their expected roles. Little did I know, true emotion was something entirely different from what I felt day after day.
Recently, I discovered how to break the emotional box (on accident), resulting in a swarm of emotion that slowly rose and rose. I quickly got rid of them after some deep meditation, but regardless, that moment was life changing for me. For the first time, I was truly able to understand why people were driven to such actions and what people actually did.
Normally, laughing for me was accompanied with no emotion, or so little I couldn't even feel it. I had to actually practice how to laugh because the emotion I felt was barely enough to merit a tiny grin. I had to practice how to cry. I had to practice all of it, because I couldn't do it naturally.
When you don't feel emotion, you don't feel desire. To this day, I don't know what desire or envy feel like, nor do I know what love feels like. Any emotion that relates to another person I am lost about. The few emotions I do know I only know a small portion of, because I feel so little of them. Imagine my shock when I felt real emotion for the first time, what it must have been like. To say the least, I was overwhelmed, even though I probably only felt a small portion of what people normally feel (it was still weak, but much stronger than what I was used to, so strong I couldn't abate them in the slightest).
Now, while I'm not quite sure of the precise technique I use to quell emotion to nothingness, storing it away in a box, I am quite sure of what I did to break open that box. If you are one of those that feels little to nothing, this is your chance to truly feel alive, to truly feel connected, and to truly enjoy life rather than sitting on the sidelines, perplexed and detached.
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First, you must be able to bring out emotion. If you are someone who feels almost nothing, this should come quite naturally for you, because you have been manipulating your emotions all these years without even realizing it! You probably know what emotions feel like without even realizing it as well! Try feeling an emotion you've never felt before and you will be shocked that you actually feel it.
Slowly get a feel for bringing and putting down emotion. Putting down should be easy, just letting go. Afterwards, work at feeling multiple emotions at once. Next, try to feel all of them once, like you are searching for a specific emotion. Continue this for about a minute (it will probably be very difficult). When you stop, you will continue to feel lingering emotion, and you will be unable to put it down. It is slowly going to grow, surging up and down your body like a wave that is getting bigger and bigger. It will continue to grow and grow, and then I don't know what will happen because I stopped it very quickly with my killing emotion technique.
Have fun with your reawakened emotions. It will take some time getting used to, and you will probably feel entirely overwhelmed. I can only imagine going through the above will be similar to going into a maniacal meltdown.
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To kill emotion:
Calm yourself. Clear your mind. Keep yourself calm. Every time you begin to feel something, push it down deep into your stomach until you don't feel it. Keep doing this. As you do this more and more, you will slowly stop to feel until you feel very little to nothing. It can almost be described as meditation. Be warned that the only way you will really feel emotion at this point is by simulation!
Once you have been on both sides, it will probably be easier to move from side to side at will, being able to be a cool analytical thinker with ease one moment and then an emotional lover the next.
