1. Each of us comes into this world already able to feel, although, for the time being, we cannot speak or walk. Our viability directly depends on our ability to sense, feel, and express our feelings [through emotions, author's ed.] with utmost clarity and persistence (Izard K.E. 2012) [1].
What are we researching: How important is expressing our feelings through emotions?
What's new: Why are all feelings and emotions important, including "negative" emotions?
What will we learn: How is the value of "negative" feelings and emotions manifested?
2. Feelings and emotions protect the psyche. Feelings can be compared to the nervous system and its reflexes to emotions in response to the influence of the external or internal world. Some feelings and emotions are associated with human physiology and its viability. They are related to the needs on which our life depends, such as hunger, thirst, sleep, movement, elimination of waste products, safety (avoidance of pain), and sexual desire. These types of feelings and emotions can be classified as hereditary [1, 2]. Other feelings and emotions can be classified as acquired in the process of human cognition and development. Although it is impossible to draw a line between hereditary and acquired types of emotions due to the structure and uniqueness of each human, therefore this distinction is conditional [1]. Now we will focus on those feelings and emotions that scientists have conventionally designated as acquired.
3. Acquired feelings and emotions. Acquired feelings are an individually stable attitude to the external and internal world of a human, formed under the influence of learning, moral judgments, and beliefs, values, conscience, attitudes (I fr. 20. 5-7). Emotions express the feelings that a human experiences at a given moment in time. But feelings and the corresponding emotions can change due to changes in learning, cognition, morality, values, and attitudes of a human [3, 4, 5, 6]. Such an opportunity for change is vital for those people who, as a result of a "good" upbringing and the imposition of societal standards, were forced to suppress their spontaneous feelings and emotions. As a result, inadequate feelings and their manifestation in emotions are formed.
4. Formation of inadequate feelings. As sociologist and psychologist Erich Fromm writes about this, children are taught from early childhood to suppress their natural feelings towards all people around them. Children, possessing a spontaneous ability to notice falsehood or hidden hostility in the behavior of others, can emotionally express their feelings. But such a reaction of children is met with rejection of such behavior by parents, and grandparents. Their sincere childhood expressions of their feelings, reflected in emotions, are "reprogrammed" with the standards of society with the help of various methods of education - a forced smile, blind friendliness, and the obligation to love all people. Children are taught to replace their spontaneous feelings, which correspond to the correct reaction in response to environmental influences, with "good" feelings imposed from the outside, which do not correspond to environmental influences. In other words, adequate feelings are replaced with inadequate feelings.
5. Inadequate feelings. When children rebel in response to the imposition of "good" feelings, it is suppressed by threats of punishment or bribery with gifts. Over time, the attempt to defend one's individual attitude to the surrounding world comes to naught. As a result, children, growing up, refuse to show their feelings, suppressing emotions, and then the feelings themselves are suppressed. Now, having become an adult, a person can, if necessary, "turn on and off" a smile, a demonstrative good mood, friendliness, philanthropy, etc. [7]. At the same time, he has lost touch with his sensory-emotional sphere, recognized as caring for the safety and integrity of his psyche like the human nervous system. In addition, a person can lose touch with his sensory-emotional sphere due to the division of feelings and emotions into "positive and negative" or "positive and negative".
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