Mike Whelan Hi Mike. Thanks for responding.
Yes, I understand that emotions are created by feelings and feelings are created by thought. And thoughts and feelings influence the state of the psyche.
Quote: "What feelings created the emotion, What thought created the feeling?
What was the purpose or meaning of the thought that started this process?"
Well in this case of movies, the answers to those questions depend on the situations in the movies. And knowing that movies, especially emotional or sentimental movies, play a lot with people's thoughts, feeling and emotions, using many tricks and techniques such as sounds, music, images, performances, drama, suspense, etc. In such a way that the person gets into the movie, is influenced, manipulated and their thoughts, emotions and feelings overflow even more.
In real life, it is a little "easier" to stay in self-observation and balance compared to what I mentioned above that happens with movies.
When my psyche altered negatively, I identify the thoughts, feelings that caused that alteration in the psyche and where they come from, which is usually from the ego and the personality influenced by it. And when it is altered positively, I try to maintain it and enjoy the moment as much as possible by perceiving as much as I can, maintaining or increasing the thoughts and feelings, also with self-observation especially after the moment.
Quote: "If you start to feel an emotion and then self-observe and then try to balance, what is the purpose of this action? Are you afraid of crying? Are you trying to suppress the emotion without any understanding? Feelings and emotions enrich our lives and serve a very important evolutionary process. Are you trying to escape or hide this process within yourself?"
As I told you in the previous post, my purpose is that the psyche is not damaged. Well, you could tell me not to watch movies then. At home I don't watch movies, when I go to my parents' house sometimes we watch movies. And I do it as a way of testing, or training neutrality and self observation.
As I was telling you in the previous post, I understand that if one is in self-observation and positive neutral thinking, one should not cry. Because crying, whether of joy or sadness, is caused by an overflow or imbalance of emotions, which negatively alters the psyche. And crying is like a reaction, I don't know whether of the mind, the body, the Creation Energy Consciousness, or of the psyche itself to balance itself, and that's why after crying, one feels better, relieved.
Which does not mean that I am against crying. There are times when it overcomes us and it is necessary to cry, it is normal. And as you say, those feelings and emotions also help us to evolve.
A hug. Salome.
