Emotions: Mankind's Greatest Mystery

Emotions of the greatest mystery of mankind. It's something that will never ever be solved because emotions defy logic and reason.

We know that it is not okay to murder people, but something triggers our basic instincts when we see someone we love making love to someone else and we snap. That's what people call "crimes of passion". There are no logical reasons to kill someone who is cheating on us.

Emotions are dangerous which is why there are counselors and therapists out there to help people manage their emotions and express them. Emotions can be like diseases, people have had heart attacks over divorces. If you let emotions sit inside you and burn up your insides it can be just as fatal as having cancer. When people are having a stressful day, the body releases cholesterol to lube up the body and make it loose just in case we have to fight or make a hasty get away. However, when this cholesterol sits for days and days it turns into bad cholesterol which can clog your arteries, which can cause death. So holding your emotions in, is like eating a pound of grease.

People always want to learn stress management techniques, but they don't want to learn ways to reduce the amount of stress they can handle. They want to be able to maximize their stress threshold so they can handle more and more stress. Why would you want to do that to yourself? Why not reduce your threshold for stress and be able to get rid of the little bit of stress that you're carrying instead of being able to pile on stressor after stressor. Eventually you'll run out of space to store your stress and that can be dangerous!

So this is my public service announcement for all you people out there. Do not hold in your feelings of anger, shame, resentment, fear, and embarrassment. Let them out, even if you're only talking to a stuffed animal. Just don't hold in those emotions because it can lead to really severe illnesses.