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hormones etc. Electrical stimuli and chemical messagecarriers, running through the grids of the brain and nervous system move an individual from impulse to action. Thus every step of the daily life, every phase of thought or feeling is an episode in the neuro-endocrine system of the individual.
All passions and emotions are expressions of the endocrine. The reasoning mind itself has no emotions but many a time the powerful impulses from the endocrines can overwhelm and continue to tinge the supposed reasoning. One loves or hates not by any reasoning power of the mind's consciousness, but by the dominating impulses of the endocrine. The supposed reasoning, then, seeks proofs for continuing and perpetuating the past beliefs. The past, however, cannot be the sole standard for the future. Enlightenment and knowledge can transmute the forces generated by the recorded past and accelerate the development of the reasoning mind to gain mastery over the future.
Mastery through Meditation
The primal-unlearned-emotions are meant to be aids to self-preservation by nature, but intense emotions are not only inconvenient but can sometimes be dangerous also. However, unconscious suppression of these powerful basic emotions could be even more dangerous. They may simply erupt in other forms causing psychological conflicts or else, psychosomatic illnesses from ulcers to asthma.
What then is the remedy? Recreation from games and sports provides one kind of outlet; creativity is another effective method of handling emotions. But to be completely free from the domination of animal impulses, savage traditions and numerous conventional reactions, one has to learn to gain mastery over the neuro-endocrine system. While unconscious suppression of basic emotions is dangerous, conscious and deliberate control over the expression of emotions is not only unharmful, but desirable. Some ac
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