The Four Lower Centers: The Emotional Center

The Four Lower Centers: The Emotional Center

Modern science and medicine do not know that the human organism is comprised not of one or two brains, but four distinct brains, or centers as they are called, each with their own function. We’ve covered two of them recently, the instinctive and moving centers. As we’ve learned, the centers are comprised of mechanical, emotional and intellectual parts, and each of these parts are comprised of the same division or section. Within all the parts and sub-divisions are positive and negative halves. The best tool to understand this is the common deck of playing cards.

The picture cards represent the centers, and the numbered cards represent the mechanical, emotional and intellectual part of each of the major divisions. If you look closely at the picture cards you will see that every picture card has two identical images opposite each other, representing the dual nature of the centers.

Thus with the emotional center there’s the mechanical part, the emotional part and the intellectual part. When this center, and the others, function properly, each doing it’s own work, this state of affairs is more conducive for higher centers to appear. One of the functions of school work is to bring the centers into relative balance that allows for higher centers to emerge without the four lower centers usurping a higher state.

For most of us, the emotional center is undeveloped. Babies, Hello Kitty, bunny rabbits and so on stimulate the positive half of the mechanical part. Course jokes, rowdy behavior, most stand-up comedy, vulgar language are all part of the negative half of the mechanical part of the emotional center.

Even so, the mechanical part of the emotional center is also responsible for easy conversation, ‘breaking the ice’ among strangers. Right work of this part of the emotional center is soft, no hard edges, is friendly without being intrusive. A social lubricant as it were.

The emotional part of the emotional center is where drama occurs. Opera is the emotional part of the emotional center set to music. “I love you!” And in the next breath “I hate you!”. These two extremes typify the emotional part of the emotional center. This part of the center believes our lives are Shakespearean dramas, but we’re probably closer to ten-year old soap opera re-runs on late-night TV.

The intellectual part of the emotional center is the most undeveloped part of the four lower functions, and the most needed for conscious evolution. Scale and relativity resides here. It is the only part of the four lower centers that can sacrifice itself for higher centers. But it needs to be educated, taught and trained.

In relation to conscious evolution, development of the emotional center is a key component. When it works properly it possesses the energy and valuation for self-remembering above all else. In fact, without a developed emotional center, introducing and prolonging presence is impossible. For this we need more emotional energy and not leak or squander it in imagination or identification. The question that naturally arises is how to make ourselves more emotional? We cannot make ourselves more emotional, but we can make efforts. When we make efforts, practice the non-expression of negative emotions and transform suffering, we will become more emotional. This is the fuel for the emergence of higher centers.

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Man with Hands on Heart, Persian, 2500-2300BC

National Museum of Iran