How would you define a negative emotion?
The easy answer, of course, is to list those emotions that are commonly labeled bad:
(Anger ,Depression ,Fear ,Anxiety ,Grief )
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I remember reading somewhere that it’s like a sailboat in the water - our conscious, rational mind is like the sailor, and our emotions are like the wind in the sails. If the sailor lets go of the sails… well, that boat is going to have some problems! But without the wind, it will go nowhere.
If it’s an emotion that is driving us to do something that we don’t want to do, like a phobia or an addiction, then it’s best to diffuse it (more on that later).
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N egative emotions arise because we don't control or train our mind. "We cannot do that by offering prayers. Rather it can be done through reasoning. If we could train our mind and develop positive mental attitude such as compassion, then it would help oneself as well as the other beings. It will also help us in this life. As we all believe in religion, we have to be compassionate all the time in good as well as in bad times. Thus, through reason we can train our mind.
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11:12 AM on September 25, 2008