NEGATIVE EMOTIONS

**"Scientists have long been informing us about the physical harm that emotions such as anger, stress, and sadness can cause to our bodies. It is a scientific fact that all negative emotions shorten the human lifespan.

No matter how much we love the people in our lives—our mothers, fathers, spouses, partners, and even our children—does it really seem worth shortening our own life due to a feeling caused by them?

Yes, it’s impossible not to feel negative emotions, but it is up to us not to stay trapped in those negative emotions for hours or days and to choose to free ourselves from them!

How?

If we haven’t worked on our emotions before, we can start by bringing awareness to which part of our body we feel the emotion in.

Do we feel tightness in our chest?

Do we feel our stomach tightening?

Where do we feel this negative emotion in our body?

The moment we notice that we are twisting in the grip of any negative emotion, we should STOP and shift our attention to body awareness (breathing, soles of feet, hands), keeping our focus on our body for a while. This will break the identification with the emotion and free us from its grip.

Sometimes, we can catch the moment when the feeling starts to rise in our body before the emotion fully emerges. Tracking and observing this feeling in our body will automatically cause the emotion to dissipate before it fully materializes.

In quantum physics, the ‘Observer Effect’ in the "Double-Slit Experiment" demonstrates that the behavior of a particle changes when it is observed by an observer. When this experiment is conducted in a single-slit setup, particles exhibit a 'particle function'; however, in a double-slit setup, particles exhibit a 'wave function'. When an observer is introduced in the double-slit setup and the particle is observed, the wave function collapses, and the particle behaves as if passing through a single-slit, showing 'particle function' again.

The observer affects the behavior of what is observed.

Self-observation is one of the most important keys in the path of awareness.

When we are lost in negative emotions, being able to STOP and turning the light of consciousness inward will break the identification with the emotion, as the observer effect will free us from the identification with that emotion.

Breaking this identification, that is, separating ourselves from the state of defining who we are based on the emotion we feel at the moment (anger, fear, hatred, jealousy, etc.), will open a more peaceful space within our being."**