Why emotional adventure is necessary...
Imagine walking through a vast forest but only sticking to the paved road. No dirt, no thorns, no shade, no unknown turns. You might say you’ve “been” in the forest, but have you really seen it? Certainly not. Avoiding certain emotions is like that. A life that has not felt every emotion is a life half-lived. The Wheel of Emotions you see is not just a psychological diagram, it is a map of the soul’s journey through the human experience. Avoiding an emotion is like ignoring crucial information just because it’s unpleasant, because every emotion is a form of information you cannot access otherwise. Emotions are not irrational distractions, they are compressed signals of your inner world responding to reality. Fear reveals attachment, anger reveals violated boundaries, jealousy exposes unmet desires, and sadness shows what once mattered. To avoid these emotions is to discard essential data that your intellect alone cannot generate. Feeling the whole spectrum of emotions builds cognitive ...
