Flamethrower

Flame is a very interesting phenomenon. It is a bit incomprehensible what is actually happening with your current physical knowledge. The material is transformed in some way, through fusion, while it releases energy and will be perceived in the form of different electromagnetic waves. If you burn wood, the wood will leave behind ash, but the mass of this ash will be significantly less than that of the wood. If you light a flammable gas, its weight and mass were very small to begin with, but it almost completely disappears as a result of the combustion.

Examining the phenomenon, we can observe several important things. First, a material transformation takes place. We take this for granted when, say, we light a match, but when we think about it, this kind of physical phenomenon can create another substance from one kind of substance. At the moment, you can't really influence the final product of the material, but the transformation will happen regardless.

What is perhaps even more exciting is what happens to the material that is transformed into non-material. As you already know from experience, when combustion takes place, the flame draws different colored shapes in the space, depending on the material it is burning, and usually also emits heat. What is not common knowledge is that during the process changes occur not only in the infrared, i.e. heat range, and not only in the visible range, but also in other, less perceptible ranges.

Why is this important? Have you ever wondered why candlelight has a calming effect? Or how lighting the Olympic flame gives more than lighting a simple candle?

On the one hand, the emotions it evokes in you are the results of prior programming, since you are used to what situations you are in when you light a candle, and what events happen when the Olympic flame is lit, and remembering your reactions to this causes the reaction itself in you.

On the other hand, the activity of these flames in the frequency range you know well also affects your emotional body.

If we turn the story a little, then every single emotional impact you create in yourself is like a plume of flame that you stir up. The greater the emotional impact, the greater this plume of flame. The bigger your flame plume, the more noticeable it is to others and the more influence it has on the people and living beings around you.

That is why you sometimes feel that the person next to you is not in a good mood. Or maybe that's why if you get into a better company, you'll automatically be in a better mood. Music works in a similar way, and the effect of music on people. If you alone listen to music with earphones in a group and you really enjoy that music, it will have a positive effect on the group as well, even if they don't like or hear that music otherwise.

Thanks to free will, you all have the ability to amplify or dampen these so-called emotional flames. If someone amplifies these too much, we think that he is overdramatizing almost every situation; if someone suppresses them a lot, we can even consider him a sociopath.

It is important to know that this kind of ability can be partially fine-tuned, so the person can decide which types of emotional flare-ups to suppress or amplify, but it is basically true that if someone is more inclined to suppress certain types of flare-ups, it will also have an effect on other flare-ups of a different kind.

That is why it is difficult, for example, to be truly happy without being able to cry. Crying is not a condition for happiness, rather it is just a physical sign that the individual is letting the flame burn with full force.

After this, it's probably no longer surprising that if someone starts crying in a group over a sad event, it will make the others cry too.

Crying is not fundamentally a bad thing, however, the need to cry must be approached with caution, as it can move the individual's emotion management strategy in the direction of overdramatization.

What is the lesson from all this? The lesson, the task is to observe yourself, how well you are currently releasing your emotions, how well you are controlling them, and whether this level is appropriate for you based on your intuition. Calmly try to approach the whole phenomenon playfully, so as soon as you get into an intense emotional state, try to consciously adjust the degree to which you want to amplify or suppress that particular emotion.

Try to pay attention to the fact that holding back is not suppression or opposition, but rather a transformation: a kind of transformation of a negative emotion in a positive direction.

As you gain more and more routine in this game, you will notice, you will notice the signs of emotional waves in others much sooner, and by teaching by example, you can bring yourself and the people around you to a more positive state or keep them in a state.

Do not forget that it is best to approach this task playfully.

Let this be today's lesson.