Emotional Suppression Mechanisms

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Emotional Suppression Mechanisms are strategies the Bodily Ego uses to suppress painful, unbecoming, or out of hand emotional responses.

Related Terms

Endogenous to the LP

Defence Mechanisms > Connection Pathology, Ego, Physical Unit, Psychological Defence Mechanisms

Exogenous to the LP

Defence Mechanisms > Ego Threat

Notes

"...it is our very nature to repress disagreeable or unbecoming emotions or urges; and if we observe that our feelings are getting out of hand, we try to repress them. These repressions may be of voluntary or involuntary types."[1]

Emotional suppression, while functional in the short term, is debilitating when chronically activated. Repression of emotions, strong emotions, anxieties, depression, etc. undermines the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health of the body.


Footnotes

  1. ↑ Akhilananda, Swami. Hindu Psychology: Its Meaning in the West. Routledge, 1948 p. 48.
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