CHATGTP summary
Spiritual practice can benefit an individual by providing a way to connect with their emotions and find inner peace. Emotions and rationalism can be entangled and sometimes difficult to reconcile, but spiritual practices such as meditation, hiking, and sports can help to find emotional release. Additionally, the concept of atheism can also benefit from spiritual practices, as it allows for the possibility of something superior existing beyond human understanding. The key is to approach spiritual practices with humility, recognizing one's own mortality and limitations, and being open to the idea of something greater. The specific practices and methods will vary for each individual, but the goal is to find inner peace and nourishment for the emotional and rational self.
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Hey there!
I felt like sharing some thoughts about spiritual practice and why it can benefit an individual. While at the same time I would like to discuss the concept of atheism respectfully as well.
However, I will pre-define the words emotionalism and rationalism, and how I view them as entangled views of each individual, sort of uncertainty relation bounding the two variables. Emotionalism one can describe the emotional response of each person, while rationalism is the logic, the reasoning of facts around the same response. Well for some at least, those two don't always agree, right? The moment that you know something, you even know how to solve it, but still feeling weakened and small in the view of the fact. Emotions cataclysm you, fear, anger or sorrow. Despite the perfect rational reasoning you are thinking, your emotional self is not convinced.
I feel it is accurate enough to talk about emotional inertia, rationalism may explain everything, while the emotional inertia of the acts or words lingers. Furthermore, days come that emotions come and stay with no apparent explanation of why, not an obvious reason what triggered them. These days rationalism is as useful as wet matches in the rain. The soaking environment and hands cannot light it up.
The depth of the emotion is so deep, it has cloud the memory banks, it just feels. These extreme emotional events need time, emotions come with inertia. It is not asking for a solution, neither to know things will be better. As you may have your days, that you could not share the happiness of a friend, hence your emotions may be suffering too much to share your own happiness. It is of course of your system of handling things. However, a sound approach is to allow them existence. See them as real personalities and empathize with them. Allow them to finish their story and tell you why they feel so if you did not protect them, do not be afraid. Accept the responsibility, hug it, love it, admit it. It is a proper start, you as one again.
The devastation over time of such side of us may feel impossible to overcome though. Even if you heard them, if you are one again, you may lack the belief you can go to bright days. Rationalism can bring up the solutions again, however, a process that required to admit a mistake may cost self-belief. The gap of self-belief was always there, it did not appear now your recognized this side in you, let's call him Bob. Imagine Bob, left alone for years, he may prefer to suicide, being part of you, you may want to suicide too. As I have said before, responsibilities we can either see them and accept them or live an unfair life, and it is punishing us. Of course, it does not mean, every misfortune in someone life is a lack of self-responsibility. Alas, plenty is.
While we know how to wash a dish, we may be afraid of the idea of washing a 1000 dishes. The fear of the view of the responsibility, staring at the monster we may lack the self-belief. The magnitude of this emotion can tear people apart. My rationalism cannot identify any other solution than give in a spiritual act, empathy to what Bob feels. He feels so, and rationalism is not enough to convince him so. There at least for me, a spiritual act will help. It is not for me, it is for Bob and then becomes a help for me. An emotional release through an act, symbolic or nonsymbolic matters not. The routines we do for our emotional expression, like writing this blog.
While at the same time the self-belief when gauged by rationalism itself is finite. Rationalism based on observables cannot create energy out of nothingness. That, of course, depends on what system of axioms a person's rationalism is based onto. Believing in only the thing one measure, indirectly is an arrogance stance. Believing in just the things we measure and understand, exclude the notion that something is bigger than us, superior. The belief things may exist, but we are unable to comprehend. This does not require you to believe in god, but to accept the possibility, something superior to you exist. Hence an agnostic atheist can benefit from spiritual acts, without inviting the supernatural as pre-requisite. He is open to see life as it is and not as he wants it to be.
Then our spiritual routines allow us to find emotional peace while performing them. Differently, we are just doing a stupid non-sense routine. What is a useful practice for everyone is personal, but examples could be hiking, meditation, sports, etc? Days though, that our emotions can not fit in this acts may come. My only viable suggestion at this point, without dismissing any other working solution to other people, it is to refer to the axiom of humbleness.
Admitting your mortality, the finite capabilities we have, recognizing that a superior existence may be, beyond your understanding and measurables. You can always refer for help there, filling the lack of belief and self-esteem. How to refer to such a concept is highly personal. However remember, you apply as a mortal, it is something beyond you. Allowing the belief in such a powerful entity, the feel of this belief exists within you; the impression remains, nourishing your inside, nourishing Bob. It may not even be relevant if such a god concept exist, however, my self is very thankful for the nourishment such a belief brings to my emotionalism, allowing healthier rationalism and to see more in life.
Love
Adam
Hey there!
I felt like sharing some thoughts about spiritual practice and why it can benefit an individual. While at the same time I would like to discuss the concept of atheism respectfully as well.
However, I will pre-define the words emotionalism and rationalism, and how I view them as entangled views of each individual, sort of uncertainty relation bounding the two variables. Emotionalism one can describe the emotional response of each person, while rationalism is the logic, the reasoning of facts around the same response. Well for some at least, those two don't always agree, right? The moment that you know something, you even know how to solve it, but still feeling weakened and small in the view of the fact. Emotions cataclysm you, fear, anger or sorrow. Despite the perfect rational reasoning you are thinking, your emotional self is not convinced.
I feel it is accurate enough to talk about emotional inertia, rationalism may explain everything, while the emotional inertia of the acts or words lingers. Furthermore, days come that emotions come and stay with no apparent explanation of why, not an obvious reason what triggered them. These days rationalism is as useful as wet matches in the rain. The soaking environment and hands cannot light it up.
The depth of the emotion is so deep, it has cloud the memory banks, it just feels. These extreme emotional events need time, emotions come with inertia. It is not asking for a solution, neither to know things will be better. As you may have your days, that you could not share the happiness of a friend, hence your emotions may be suffering too much to share your own happiness. It is of course of your system of handling things. However, a sound approach is to allow them existence. See them as real personalities and empathize with them. Allow them to finish their story and tell you why they feel so if you did not protect them, do not be afraid. Accept the responsibility, hug it, love it, admit it. It is a proper start, you as one again.
The devastation over time of such side of us may feel impossible to overcome though. Even if you heard them, if you are one again, you may lack the belief you can go to bright days. Rationalism can bring up the solutions again, however, a process that required to admit a mistake may cost self-belief. The gap of self-belief was always there, it did not appear now your recognized this side in you, let's call him Bob. Imagine Bob, left alone for years, he may prefer to suicide, being part of you, you may want to suicide too. As I have said before, responsibilities we can either see them and accept them or live an unfair life, and it is punishing us. Of course, it does not mean, every misfortune in someone life is a lack of self-responsibility. Alas, plenty is.
While we know how to wash a dish, we may be afraid of the idea of washing a 1000 dishes. The fear of the view of the responsibility, staring at the monster we may lack the self-belief. The magnitude of this emotion can tear people apart. My rationalism cannot identify any other solution than give in a spiritual act, empathy to what Bob feels. He feels so, and rationalism is not enough to convince him so. There at least for me, a spiritual act will help. It is not for me, it is for Bob and then becomes a help for me. An emotional release through an act, symbolic or nonsymbolic matters not. The routines we do for our emotional expression, like writing this blog.
While at the same time the self-belief when gauged by rationalism itself is finite. Rationalism based on observables cannot create energy out of nothingness. That, of course, depends on what system of axioms a person's rationalism is based onto. Believing in only the thing one measure, indirectly is an arrogance stance. Believing in just the things we measure and understand, exclude the notion that something is bigger than us, superior. The belief things may exist, but we are unable to comprehend. This does not require you to believe in god, but to accept the possibility, something superior to you exist. Hence an agnostic atheist can benefit from spiritual acts, without inviting the supernatural as pre-requisite. He is open to see life as it is and not as he wants it to be.
Then our spiritual routines allow us to find emotional peace while performing them. Differently, we are just doing a stupid non-sense routine. What is a useful practice for everyone is personal, but examples could be hiking, meditation, sports, etc? Days though, that our emotions can not fit in this acts may come. My only viable suggestion at this point, without dismissing any other working solution to other people, it is to refer to the axiom of humbleness.
Admitting your mortality, the finite capabilities we have, recognizing that a superior existence may be, beyond your understanding and measurables. You can always refer for help there, filling the lack of belief and self-esteem. How to refer to such a concept is highly personal. However remember, you apply as a mortal, it is something beyond you. Allowing the belief in such a powerful entity, the feel of this belief exists within you; the impression remains, nourishing your inside, nourishing Bob. It may not even be relevant if such a god concept exist, however, my self is very thankful for the nourishment such a belief brings to my emotionalism, allowing healthier rationalism and to see more in life.
Love
Adam
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