I just read a great quote by Abraham here about “the composition of feelings” and what are feelings made of when you break them down and examine their smaller components. The gist of it was as follows:
Most feelings are made up of 2 factors:
1.) Desire
2.) Resistance to that desire
For example:
- Passion = Strong desire + No Resistance
- Contentment / Peacefulness = Not much desire + No Resistance
- Boredom = not much desire + a little resistance
- Frustration / Anger / Guilt / Depression = Strong Desire + Strong Resistance
- Clarity = desire (to know) + no resistance
Isn’t that interesting and fun to know? ^_^