Thought and Emotion

My daughter asked me to bring her favourite chocolate today while coming back home, Kinderjoy. At age 5, unwrapping the box to find a new toy is real fantasy. While she was waiting for me at home desperately to grab it, I entered home empty handed. My daughter said to me “You are a bad mother and I don’t want to speak with you”. Her hurt and her shrill words kept ringing in my ears and so I immediately went inside the kitchen to prepare her favourite dish. Few minutes later, my daughter was hopping all around the house with joy and laughter. She hugged me tightly and said, “You are the best mother in this world”.

My journey of being a bad mother to best mother in a span of fifteen minutes confused me. It compelled me to think what exactly changed in these fifteen minutes. Maybe my child’s “Thought”, “Emotion” OR Both.

Well, thought is what our mind creates and emotion comes from that thought. Thought and emotions feed on each other. By dwelling mentally on the situation, event or person that is the perceived cause of the emotion, the thought feeds energy to the emotion, which in turn energises the thought pattern and so on. Have you ever witnessed a situation when you are thinking well about a person but inside having negative feelings about him? Well, answer is “NO”.

However, difference is that our thought can change on flick of a switch but emotions take longer time. While thought is seed of the fruit, emotion is the juice. While thought is felt in your head, emotion is felt in your body. For example, an attack thought will create angry emotion while a thought of being threatened will create fear emotion. Cut the umbilical cord of thought and emotion will gradually fade away.

So, observe your thoughts and your emotions will fall in place. Let emotion be there but do not be controlled by it. Understand what is going inside you and take charge of doorway to reality, which is beyond your thought and emotion.