Unfeeling Lump
The least evolved state of the Emotional Body is that of Inertia. This is a state in which the full range and intensity of emotion is not experienced or is not experienced fully. People in this state are emotionally unresponsive.
Drama Queen
The intermediate state in the evolution of the Emotional Body is Activity. This is a state in which a person seems given over to their emotions.
Fully Feeling Person
The advanced state in the evolution of the emotional body is the balanced emotionally available person. They can feel their emotions fully yet do not become lost in them, as the have a well-developed internal witness. They also experience a variety of emotions.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, each of 5 organ systems have associated positive and negative emotions:
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The heart is associated with the negative emotions of arrogance and hate and the positive virtues of kindness and love. Recent scientific research shows that feelings of love and appreciation strongly influence the heart's rhythm and its relationship to the body's physiological systems (see www.heartmath.org).
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The lungs are associated with the negative emotions of sadness and depression, and the positive virtues of courage and righteousness. Emotional depression is often recognized by a physical depression and collapse of the chest and lungs.
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The kidneys are associated with the negative emotion of fear and the positive emotions of gentleness and kindness. Fear is closely related to the activity of the adrenal glands that lie on top of the kidneys. The adrenal glands secrete adrenalin and noradrenalin when stimulated by the body's fight-or-flight response.
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The liver is associated with the negative emotion of anger and the positive emotions of generosity and forgiveness. Physiologically, the liver is important for storing and rapidly releasing glucose into the blood. The energy of anger requires the rapid availability of metabolic energy stores in the body.
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The stomach/spleen are associated with the negative emotions of worry and anxiety and the positive emotions of fairness and openness. Most people will be familiar with the "butterflies" and "knots" in the stomach related to worry, apparently related to a network of network of neurons and neurotransmitters in the sheaths of tissue lining the digestive system, known as the enteric nervous system (Gershon, 1998).
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