EMOTION INTOXICATION

Be sober minded, be watchful.  Your adversary the devil roams around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.  1 Peter 5:8

Blurry reality.  Emotion illusion confusion. 

Imagine:

The worst arguments you can think of, or arguments like them.

What was a constant issue in the argument?  Simply agreeing on what ACTUALLY happened to cause the argument, or the ACTUAL words said before and during the argument.   It’s like you spend the whole time simply trying to get the other person to REMEMBER what you ACTUALLY said!!

“That’s not what I said!”

“YES, YOU DID!!!”

“I know what I said and what I meant…..I said THIS!”

“I don’t feel like going over the whole conversation again!!”

“But that’s the problem.  You are taking my words out of context.  You’re putting words in my mouth!!!”

“I distinctly remember you saying THIS!!!!”

“I DID NOT SAY THAT!!!!!!!!”

And on it goes.  You wish there was a tape recording of the argument because memory seems completely untrustworthy…especially the OTHER PERSON’S MEMORY!  Yours is working just fine!

Why does this happen?

I call it Emotion Intoxication--The loss of mental soundness or clairity which comes from some emotional overload, good or bad.

I hate feeling like I’m in a daze or haze or illusion, when I don’t know whether I’m being experienced as I really am, or whether I am experiencing the other person as he or she really is.

I’ve thought and prayed long and hard about this, the source and solution of emotion intoxication.

This is what I learned:

There must be a clear focused purpose in which the authority in the specific territory defines reality….(To be continued.)