I guess I have a different definition of mood-making.

What you are describing to me seems like a type of denialism.

Although "positive-thinking" is often the label the kind of behavior your are describing gets, true positive thinking is not denialism-based.

Of course, I think meditation-based processing is the best way to deal with emotional issues. Sometimes counseling helps, depending on two critical factors - how good the counselor is, and whether the counselee is self-motivated to take responsibility for and work on their own issues.

Actual positive thinking is the ability to see clearly the issue(s) then step back from being overly attached to the negative emotional states, and decide to act on a solution, as opposed to wallowing in the negativity.

Critical is the ability to differentiate the exploration of an emotion for the purpose of self-learning from simply being stuck in an emotion.

If you are not gaining insights, there is no spontaneous, let-go, and you aren't integrating anything, then you are not experiencing from a meditative viewpoint, you are simply stuck. Back off for awhile and try again.

Venting is not always helpful. Improperly done, it is simply an attempt to throw the responsibility for your issue onto someone or something else.

If you must vent, you should do it alone, in a safe place, and follow the venting by a period of 10 minutes or more of silent meditation for integrative purposes. In other words, vent on purpose, at your time and place of choosing, and from a meditative perspective.

I thought mood making had to with just doing processes (or in a group the power of a speaker) to create bliss-outs, or whip up a particular emotion in a group of people.

Many new-age gurus became proficient at this during the 80s and 90s. They could get a group of people emotionally high for a day or so, then take their money for the seminar, then off to the next group. Then Monday morning at work, all the participants realized they didn't get any real integration or change from their expensive weekend trip to la-la land. They had just been tricked into feeling all warm and fuzzy for a while. Fake fakirs abounded.

So that's what I thought mood-making was.

Anyway, it's great topic for a series of posts.

Thanks a lot for this post. It is really very important to accept without judgment and be aware of any emotion before trying to deal with it.Yeah , the power of it seems to diminish as soon as we are aware of it as an emotion because when we are aware of any thoughts or emotions we see ourselves different from those and stop identifying ourself with that small temporary good or bad thought,emotion or stress. And then as a person who is not that emotion dealing with it and being responsive to it in an appropriate way comes easy and is more efficient.Very nice post. Thanks once more.

ditto, Garima.

Faking 'it' is making it, in parentheses. Quite honestly, it is part of belonging and often is fake or break.
Now I am really in a mood!

Good lord, Ed!

Do you think an imagination can override it and is of value even though being that creative is faking it, in a way?

Good lord, Ed!

Do you think an imagination can override it and is of value even though being that creative is faking it, in a way?

Sorry about the double post. I'm not getting the little circular thingie that crcles to tell me it is posting.

For Ed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR3K5uB-wMA

Lol, I am still able to dance the Charleston on that :)

Mieke

I'm imagining I'm in the Shunyata and my mood outburst are phenomena likened to a fish in the sea that swims close to me. It gets bigger as it gets closer, and I may or may not be fascinated with it. I got metaphor from Pema Choden. But still, I am imagining.

Well, if you like music dear Max, then the above video link was the mood making music for my generation. This was music you could not sit still and meditate with. It invited you to move your feet whether you wanted it or not.

Charleston, tapdance, quickstep, swing, slowfox, one could dance anything on Glenn Miller's music.

And he sure knew how to make you: In the Mood.

:)

That I can imagine, visualize, create writing, drawings, and speech, shows that I am "made in His image". But still, I use found materials. He does it ex nihilio. So I don't like it.

Dear Max, sorry to go off on a tangent. So, to tie this in: we can be master of found materials.

Good Lord, Meike! Is that a two-step, Sherry?

Not sure what I was trying to say, now ;)

'No w/man is an island' I think?

If I see I might 'break' another, I fake it. If I see another is out to 'break' me, I fake it etc.

Separation or Oneness, even compassion....fluidiocy

I just want to make another point concerning moods. Something to ponder. What we consider normal or natural is only habit. Except perhaps in the realm of fluidity. There I'm a loss.

Not much I can say about Shunyata but we can say anything as it, I imagine, shun nothing, even ;)

From Wiki:-
Śūnyatā (Sanskrit) holds the semantic field of "emptiness" and is the noun form of "Shunya" (Sanskrit) which holds the semantic field "zero", literally zero "ness".

In the Mūlamadhamaka kārikas[1] attributed to Nagarjuna, Śūnyatā is qualified as "...void, unreal, and non-existent".[2] Eliot et al. (1993: p.81) in commenting on the aforecited qualification of Śūnyatā from De la Valée Poussin, furthers that:

None of these translations of śûnya is, however, quite satisfactory and there is much to be said for Stcherbatsky's [Stcherbatsky (1927). The Conception of Nirvana.] rendering - relative or contingent. Phenomena are śûnya or unreal because no phenomenon when taken by itself is thinkable: they are all interdependent and have no separate existence of their own.[3]

I bow to my partner!

Yes, it holds nothing against nothing. So how can I? Just be quiet so I can make dinner!

Dear Ed, I was making a joke. I would never Shun U, too, even from dinner.

I chose Shunyata because I read it was the positive aspect of the Voidness.

Excuse me, the phone rang! A friend wanted to tell me of their experience at a medium (spiritualist)dinner this evening! I pretended it wasn't voodoo!