question about the understanding emotions video

[LoveandPurpose]

At around 39:00 Leo says that the conscious mind is not our primary thing and it depends on our emotions. We don't have a conscious mind without emotions. They are the foundation and they control our conscious mind.

 

Can you please explain this to me?

[Truth Addict]

In this specific case: conscious mind = rational thinking.

Your rational decisions are thoroughly affected by your emotions. Look to verify that in your direct experience. Why do you do anything at all? You'll always eventually land on emotions.

Emotions are prior to logical thinking, logic cannot control or change emotions, but rather, emotions can affect your logical thinking and rational decisions, by creating biases, making excuses, manipulating logic, etc...

It's actually very complex, because thoughts and (exclusively) negative emotions are entangled, I suppose that they're two sides of the same coin. You can't have a negative emotion without thoughts and imagination. While all you need to do in order to feel positive emotions like happiness and love is just let go of everything (including thought) and surrender.

The reason Leo is saying that, is because a lot of people naively assume that they can control their emotions and behaviours by thinking their way out of them (rationalists), where in fact it's the other way around.

Leo here was mainly speaking to a rational and logical audience. It's very important that you don't confuse the "conscious mind" here with "Consciousness".

Edited February 1, 2019 by Truth Addict