The POSITIVE EMOTIONS are associated with CREATION –
advancing health, wealth, imagination and inspiration.
The NEGATIVE EMOTIONS breed DESTRUCTION – illness,
disease, poverty, close-mindedness.
CREATION…or DESTRUCTION. Which set do YOU choose to
FUEL Your MIND?
In Chapter 12 of Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill
listed the 7 Positive and the 7 Negative Emotions. The
chapter deals with the Subconscious Mind, but Hill
dropped this list in there, and I feel compelled to
write about them.
Here is the list…
Positive:
DESIRE
FAITH
LOVE
SEX
ENTHUSIASM
ROMANCE
HOPE
Negative:
FEAR
JEALOUSY
HATRED
REVENGE
GREED
SUPERSTITION
ANGER
On May 5, 2009 Michael Dlouhy added PROSPERITY to the
Positive side, and LACK to the Negative side.
Basically, EMOTIONS are STATES of MIND which are felt
as ENERGY in the BODY. EMOTIONS MOVE us, MOTIVATE us,
compel our MOTION.
Human Beings are the only animals who can TRAP and hold
EMOTIONAL ENERGY in their bodies and TRANSMUTE, or
convert them into other ENERGY and STATES of MIND.
The POSITIVE EMOTIONS are associated with CREATION –
advancing health, wealth, imagination and inspiration.
The NEGATIVE EMOTIONS breed DESTRUCTION – illness,
disease, poverty, close-mindedness.
The best way for me to understand these emotions is to
compare, what I believe are, their opposites:
DESIRE is the PASSION for achieving, acquiring,
creating – whether it be a new skill, an invention, a
new level of achievement, whatever – to manifest
something from an idea.
The opposite of DESIRE is JEALOUSY – the envy of the
achievement of others. It seeks to DESTROY others’
accomplishments, rather than to build one’s own.
FAITH is simply KNOWING, beyond all Doubt. We reach
this STATE by living in THE NOW – the bottomless depth
of the Present Moment, where ALL is KNOWN.
FAITH’S opposite is FEAR – the STATE associated with
the UNKNOWN. Living in the past and dwelling on the
future elicits this Emotion. Past and future are both
distorted concepts of reality – we do not KNOW the
future the way we know THE NOW, and the past is clouded
by our memories and the labels and judgements we’ve
placed on them. What we do not KNOW, we FEAR – and we
TRANSMUTE its energy into the other Negative Emotions
when we TRAP it.
LOVE is the pure JOY of BEING – connected to all that
IS. It is unconditional, cannot be lost, and cannot be
destroyed – no more than we can lose the sun on a
heavily overcast day – it still shines brightly on the
other side of the clouds.
The opposite of LOVE is HATRED. Most people mistake an
addictive clinging to an external source of affection
for Love. When this affection is withdrawn, the false
love flips to HATRED – an ongoing cycle of pleasure and
pain.
SEX is the ULTIMATE form of Human Desire, imprinted on
us by the biological imperative to further our species.
We TRANSMUTE its ENERGY into MAGNETISM, CHARISMA, and
GENIUS. It is the HIGHEST SOURCE of CREATIVE ENERGY
within our biological being. The EMOTION of SEX
promotes health, wealth and all good things to all who
receive or send it.
Opposite SEX is ANGER – the Driving Force of
DESTRUCTIVE ENERGY. It is most commonly bred by
trapping, holding and transmuting the ENERGY of FEAR.
ANGER is a toxic poison to all who receive or send it.
ENTHUSIASM is the ENERGY produced when PASSION is
combined with SPECIFIC GOALS. It radiates outward,
attracting resources to manifest its CREATION.
ENTHUSIASM is the ENGINE of PRODUCTION – akin to the
Big Bang which begat the Physical Universe.
ENTHUSIASM’S opposite is GREED – akin to a BLACK HOLE
which sucks in and annihilates all ENERGY and
RESOURCES. Just as the Dead Sea cannot support life
because its waters have no outlet, resources with no
outlet cannot support PRODUCTION. A prime example of
GREED is the irrational seeking of short-term gain at
the expense of the system which produces wealth. The
ultimate result is the annihilation of global monetary
and economic systems.
ROMANCE is the drawing together of harmonious
forces, an attraction of soul-mates like molecules
of the same element. This bonding is the root of all
CREATION.
Opposite ROMANCE is REVENGE – one force
seeking the obliteration of another. Whereas
ROMANCE strengthens both, REVENGE leads
to the DESCRUCTION of both.
HOPE is the EXPECTATION, without “rational” evidence,
of resources which induce CREATION. It is the natural
progression of Self-Evident FAITH, the wellspring of all
ACHIEVEMENT regardless of the “odds”. Strong HOPE
bends the odds in its favor.
The opposite of HOPE is SUPERSTITION – the belief in
things, without rational evidence, which induce FEAR.
Gossip, conspiracy theories, hastily drawn conclusions
– all generators of SUPERSTITION. It is a tool employed
by those who desire to hold power – enslaving others –
by seeding FEAR and DOUBT. Yup! Religious leaders,
politicians, tort attorneys, media manipulators, and
unsavory marketers – all professions infested with
adept MERCHANTS OF FEAR! (I’ll stop this paragraph
while I may yet have a few friends left.)
PROSPERITY is the STATE OF MIND which EMBRACES ALL OF
THE ABOVE POSITIVE EMOTIONS. It is the result of living
in THE NOW – KNOWING that all the ABUNDANT RESOURCES of
the UNIVERSE are at the disposal of those who RECOGNIZE
they are PART OF IT! I have known folks with limited
financial means who live in PROSPERITY.
PROSPERITY’S opposite, of course, is LACK – bred by
EGO’S denial of SELF – its seeking to be different,
unique, separate from all else. Those so inflicted with
this insanity feel a nagging longing, a sense of
disconnection, incompleteness, dissatisfaction, being
unfulfilled. They attempt to fill the void of LACK by
acquiring STUFF. When the stuff doesn’t fulfill then,
they seek MORE stuff. I have known folks with great
financial means who live in LACK.
CREATION…or DESTRUCTION. Which set do YOU choose to
FUEL Your MIND?
Ken Klemm
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