A Journey to Self-Understanding Through Emotion Management

The first time I heard someone speak about this was from Ram Dass: "To love someone is to access the source through someone. To love is to access the source."

Free Will

If you've ever faced emotionally intense situations, you understand how emotions can sweep us away. Mastering our emotions is a vital part of our social development. Many social environments today pay particular attention to not spreading hate or anger. Consequently, these feelings become suppressed, and sooner or later, they erupt, often violently, because they have been held back for too long.

Letting Go

Emotional control is crucial for our social cohesion. One of the current criteria used to evaluate the social evolution of human beings is their ability to interact pleasantly with others in as many situations as possible. However, unexpressed emotions can lead to solitude at best, and at worst, a frustration so powerful it overwhelms everything in its path.

Finding Peace

Awareness is key. Upon self-reflection, you quickly realize that our free will is largely influenced by our ability to manage emotions. But in reality, emotional management might not always be feasible. Are we really capable of preventing an emotion from surfacing? Can we truly decide which emotions will affect us today? What is certain is that we can become aware of what overtakes us. We can also choose to accept these powerful emotional forces—respecting this dynamic, which is the result of so many factors that humans cannot fully comprehend. Perhaps this is what differentiates AI from humans. An AI might have billions of parameters, but a human being will always have more—infinitely more. Humans will always remain unpredictable and surprising.