Is Labelling Emotions Affecting Mental Health?

What if one day you woke up, and forgot the meanings to certain words. In fact, certain words no longer even appear in the dictionary. In fact, the whole world forgot their meanings.

Words such as frustration, anger, sadness, worry, stress, hurt...

Since you forgot what all these meant, would you be able to recall them from memory the moment you were experiencing them? Would you even know what they are if they arose? Surely, there would be an experience of something, but you'd be wondering what it is... and since you can't connect a meaning to it, I wonder if it would it bother you so much?

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From the Chapter, "Life and Purpose, Nothing Changes the World":

"We are so clever in pointing out the things we see in other people, we forget that to be able to recognize them at all, one must know those things within oneself, first.

So, in this pointing out of the other person, is your intention to get them to face themselves with the intention to change them or...

...is it you who must accept the fact that you are not willing to face yourself? That is, you are not willing to face the fact that you are that which you see in others!

Quick check: If you have never experienced frustration, how can you know that it is frustration?

What our mind tends to do is recognize the definition of what frustration is, and therefore identify the emotion with that definition. And then we go off to manage the emotion of frustration with the same entity that defines it in the first place. (Does one see the illusionary nation of this?)

But if you watch it carefully - watch/observe - you might have a sensation, but the moment thought tries to connect the feeling or the definition of it based on a past experience, what happens?

Have you tried watching without the definition? "

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Love and Light,
GC

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