Using mnemonics to control and transcend emotions

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I don’t even know where to start with this one, but it’s a real thing. I’ve been studying my own mind in a very formal way ever since I was a teenager, and I picked up a few tricks here and there to deal with emotions.

One of the tricks is basically to identify what emotion I’m actually feeling. The more accurante the name or description, the easier it was to transcend that emotion. The problem is this kind of task is difficult, takes too much time and by the time you identified it, the emotion had already went away.

So, here we have a perfect recipee for something mnemonics could be applied. Memorize many emotions and then go through each of them in order to identify what your feeling.

You’d have the task to identify which taxonomy or list of emotions to chose, there are many categorizing emotions in many different dimensions. I chose a list that has 500 emotions. I won’t go into further detail about the list I chose, but ask for me in private and I’ll tell you.

Anyway, I haven’t memorized all of it, there’s a 1/3 yet to memorize, but the results are already amazing. In the beggining I was in such disbelief. I would go through the list, identify the emotion, and then suddenly I had control/understanding over it.

If it was a bad feeling, it’d either go away completely or I’d be able to meet it with compassion. If it was a good feeling, I would be able to enjoy and maximize it without being completely dominated by it.

Just absolutely wonderful experience overall. The list is big, but it does not include every feeling. And a very complete list would probably go a couple hundred further than this one. However, it’s good enough for a start, and has a sense of completude to it. It does what it proposes, which is to encompass all emotional areas of average human experience.

There’s a few things that still need to be worked out after you memorize the list, such as deciding where to start parsing it, since you want to minimize the time needed to find what your feeling. Specially when you’re feeling bad, when you want to curl up and die, every second is extremely precious.

For that, compressing the list makes sense. Once the emotions are memorized, use smaller hooks to remind you of the emotions in the list. Instead of memorizing the words, you memorize the first letters of each word, putting anywhere from 4-6 emotions in the same locus. This should allow you to parse the list faster.

Also, as time goes by, you make genuine progress. Once an emotion is identified correctly, you start to move on with you life, instead of repetitively ruminating on it. You start to become more emotionally intelligent very quickly. You develop a greater appreciation for music, art and your own life experience.

At some point, when you’re a peak performance, there is definetely a feeling of transcending emotions altogether. You start to be able to move through them intentionally and you gain such a rich experience of life that is really hard to describe. I like to call it emotional multidimensionality.

I think this is enough for now!

Thank you for reading! ^-^

Love is all you need!

Bye!

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Hi there,

The only way one could use a mnemonic for emotional control would be to pre-load a mnemonic image and even then an image can facilitate changes BUT IMHO:

Mindfulness of the emotional state is much more important AND
Being able to dissolve the emotion once is arises is a last minute effort

Training on being mindful of one’s breath & emotions, because the two are linked, is very important.
When a person “belly breathes” from the diaphragm, one nervous system is used giving a calming effect but when chest breathing becomes quick & shallow another nervous system is used.

Food for thought,
Stefos

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You seem to like mindfullness, which is good. But you should more open to new ideas. Innovation does not grow in intellectually hostile enviroments.

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I like this way of using memo techniques very much.
i would like to have your list if possible, and the reason why you choose it, and also if there is a clusterization that helps speed un the process.

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I am open to new ideas

I am not a hostile intellectual :slight_smile:

Stefos

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Oh, sorry, must be some cultural differences that made me interpret your response that way. I appreciate the clarification, though. :slight_smile:

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Hey, sure thing. Send me a PM and we’ll talk about it. I’m always a little concerned about telling people these things, and I usually prefer secrecy. The reason being that you never know who has good or bad intentions, so I prefer to be cautious. Mnemonics are mental nuclear weapons, and some parts of this technique should require some vetting to know who’s trustworthy enough not to blow the world up :sweat_smile:

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You can link emotional states to the images, so you can identify them easier that with the lists. You can also invoke said states if you focus hard enough - i used it to get into the right state of mind at the gym.

By the way, are on a spectrum? I’m not trying to be rude, just curious. Memorizing descriptions of emotions to identify them just feels like an unnecessary labor.

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That’s interesting! I’ll keep that in mind.

About being on the spectrum, not really. About the unnecessary labor thing, it may well feel that way for the untrained eye, but it certainly doesn’t to those who are in the know.