Monday, August 20, 2007

Are Our Emotions Our Servants Or Masters?

The Role Of Emotions
Emotions are a legitimate and essential part of our human make-up. However, they should be regarded as serving a similar function to the senses. Our senses give us information about our environment and situations. That information is then processed by the brain so that we can take whatever action is appropriate and logical. Of course, our senses provide their information in various ways, so that our sense of smell gives different, though often complementary, information to, say, our eyes. Likewise, our emotions provide information, albeit of different kinds.

The Effects Of Dominant Emotions
Emotions are there to serve our needs. Yet we often allow them to become our masters instead of remaining our servants. When this happens our View the rest of this article


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