Hummmm...
I've read several of these and glanced at the rest, please allow me to jump on board with some questions...
I feel like a broken record as I have delt with these very questions for so long and more intensely in the last 18 months. I've sought eugeen's aedvice on this very subject on more than one occcasion. I was absent from all the boards for several months and a very emotional "first time" for me experience has led me right back to the very same family group I found elsewhere in December of 08, so if these questions seem rehashed over again please bare with me or bare or sumthin...
If ( the biggest 2 letter word in existance) IF we are not our emotions and our emotions do not define us per say how does it come to bare that Events wich are imidiately life altering ( let's not nit pick every moment is life altering but you know what I mean) these milestone events we "choose" through our actions thoughts and beliefs, how do they effect our emotions so that we choose to alter our view points and even our beliefs systems and not then define who we are on this PLANE. Mind you I do believe that we are not on this plane all we fully are at a soul level, but the present moment foccuss so widely "preached" would place us as being who we are at this given moment.
So not to double speak or overthink, but where does this concept become null and void in the necesity of day to day survival vs day to day growth and advancement.
And playing devil's adv as usual uriel would introduce another wrench into the gears of we are not our emotions by asking how these concepts then relate to those like *ME* who are diagnosed, supposedly depending who you ask, with emotional control disorders severe enough that it feels under daily circumstances that I can not master my emotions at all, but rather that I am washed in the ebbing and flowing tide that are my emotions which are constantly effected by outside circumstances...said circumstances always being consequential to my own choices.
There fore leading back to it's my choice to feel this garbage then why does it take something dramaticly tramatic to change in an instant what months and even years of meditation and so called "therapy" had not effectivly altered to that point?
OH and if you think for a minute that the field of medical science has been of any help and I do mean any help then take me to your leader I need to meet the Doctor, preacher, Guru, spiritual adviser, who ever that can make heads or tales of what I feel, vs what I believe, vs what I know to be true on a spiritual level vs what I know to be seemingly contradictorily true on the physical plane.
For instance...The faithful night around thanksgiving when someone posted to my wife of eleven years "you must be crazier than your husband...He's suicidal over your decision to move on to be with your one [twin flame, w/e] and rather than help him find profesional help you antagonize him by posting the whole thing" And our only response was that 3 years of professional help had only led me closer to suicidal than ever.
And that has been the gidst of the not I have been trying to untangle since age 5, circumstances changing but feelings remaining madenlingly similar. scared angry resentful anxiuos...all fear based emotions which entangle me until an angel comes to comfort me only to throw me back into the lion's den of earth living for round five hundred and ten.
who among you be wise enough to help me disentangle my soul from my earthly emotions ask Uriel