Relationship between logic and feelings

 Before we can start to go into logic and its connection to feelings we need to look at a good example of how information should be processed in conjunction with both logic and emotions. As human beings, we are in the process of developing our individuality, our sense of self. This ‘sense of self’ is a synthesis of all we are. If the feelings are cut out of the way we perceive ourselves and the world around us, it manifests as a distorted understanding of reality. This is also why we as species have so many misunderstandings around the nature of reality we live in.

 A person who has a good understanding of how feelings and logic can work together and empower each other has at one point reached into themselves and created expanded awareness between these two aspects of logic and feelings. They have achieved a state of peace and empowerment between the emotional body and the mind which holds in itself all of the information that gets organized with the use of logic. This puts the logic in more contact with the body's emotional system enabling it to go fourth and manifest its desires that are born in the emotional body, while being in sync with its true feelings. That person is not doing something because he/she needs to or is afraid, it acts from a place that also feels right and is in sync with ideals that are created by feelings, mind and logic working together as whole. Only by being in contact with our whole nature we gain the ability to become aware of who we are and what we want to create. Living this way expands us and creates meaning and satisfaction in life.

 Logic Is a tool that helps us navigate in the world- It creates systems, it becomes a connection point between us and the nature of what revolves around us. But if what revolves around us is only translated through the brain without emotions we end up with incomplete understanding about it. Looked from a little further away our mind operates on a given frequency spectrum. It understands the nature of things that happen on the same frequency it operates on. Mind starts to make guesses or not even see anything once what we are trying to understand lives outside of its operating frequency. People who only operate from the mind do not understand feelings. They may in fact see feelings as enemies within and around. This mind ends up fighting with itself and people around them.

 One scenario to demonstrate is how there are so many couples who fight with each other over whose way of doing things is right. For example, person A feels something is not right for them but person B has logical reasons to dismiss person A's feelings. So the decision as a couple is made to follow the logic of person B and silence the feelings and the possible reasons for being there for person A. It's important to know that listening to feelings can lead us back to our mind in a way that reasons why the feelings were there in the first place become visible to us. But if we do not allow this natural way of feeling to show that to us, we deny ourselves the guidance and insight they can give to us.

 We have been pressured throughout our lives to “stay in control with our minds only.” This is what our society wants from us. It has been built into the nature of parenting, school system, work, partnerships, economy etc. The way I personally opened up my logic and decision making to feelings was starting to see how it could be beneficial to me to let myself give voice to the emotional system. I opened up my mind by creating room to work together with emotions to make decisions. Appreciating and letting myself experience how it is to let go of this internal need of control. I created positive experiences with the whole nature of who I am. This shift of how I govern myself created room for me to experience reality in a different way and by doing that I actually ended up understanding it in a more expanded way than ever before. I recreated my mind in a way that was inclusive and empathic toward myself. I saw the value in what I had discarded before.I became aware of the whole of who I am and incorporated it into my identity. I became more than a person operating from the mind.

 In summary, once the mind takes a role to carry and be everything we are we fail because we are operating against human nature and it becomes in the long run unsustainable and severely limits the experience of life itself. Mind does not perceive by itself what's going on with us and around us.It does not have the sensory input to do that. Therefore if we meet in our lives these people who do that, oftentimes they end up gaslighting our feelings. A mind that operates in a closed system can become narcissistic in nature because it does not see or understand feelings. It does not take into account the hurt it creates in itself and to others for the reason this hurt does not exist for them.

 Empathy is something that comes from being in contact with our own feelings and then if we have that we can integrate it with our mind and act in a way that is inclusive, empathic towards ourselves and others. By doing that we create more empathy in this world and become the example for other people. For them to better see and understand the values this can hold. After all, healing always starts from a single caring act that comes from a loving heart.

Ott Rõngas

21.03.2024