The Global Warming of Self
The effects of global warming are well-studied. A great resource to understand this global warming is shown in the linked image below.
The image is self-explanatory. Sun is the source of global energy. It is a chaotic energy meaning that it is not focused. This energy has “action hubs” such as those in E (ocean heating) and I (Albedo effect). Hub “I” then produces another hub A (melting ice). Each hub produces further effects on the global warming. Interesting is that all hubs interact and produce C (permafrost pandemic) and thus compounding this effect. These are dormant bacteria in the ice and may be released if ice melts and cause great harm to humanity. Warming up has its bill.
In analogy, the global warming of self may lead to similar results. The heatmap of our emotions were studied as is shown in the reference below.
A group of bio-medical engineers from Aalto University researched 700 volunteers from Finland, Sweden and Taiwan in order to map human bodily sensations connected with certain emotions. In this image, warm colors indicate regions of increased sensation while blue and black areas represent decreased sensation. Red color is noticeable in negative feelings such as fear and anger. These are signals that we are “warming up”. Should this warming extend in frequency, intensity and time they shall create their “warming up” ups as in noticed in the warming of the climate. The complexity of such warming up is beyond our understanding, but they shall lead to same effects we currently encounter with the global warming up of the climate.
One of the great reasons for the global warming up of self is the build up of grudge and desire to revenge from wrongdoers who hurt us. However; this puts us far from self-equilibrium and on the edge of chaos. Here we have the opportunity to self-organize to better ourselves or kindle the “furnace of hatred and grudge” inside us that only produces intoxicating gases and releases bacteria that was dormant like we experience in the permafrost pandemic resulting from the global warming of the climate. Recently, Renée Cormier published a great buzz on forgiveness titled (The power of forgiveness) that is a must read.
There is a great and ancient story of two Arab friends walking in the desert. One of them hurt the other and said nasty things to him. The hurt man went down and wrote on the sand “today my friend X hurt me). They kept walking and suddenly they ran into sinking sand. The friend who was hurt started sinking. His friend, who hurt him, extended a helping hand to him and saved his life. This time the saved man went down and inscribed on a rock “today my friend X saved my life”. His friend asked “why did you write on the sands when I hurt you, but this time you did so on a rock”? The friend responded because bad memories should blow away by the wind, but good acts should stay for long”.
We need to let the wind blow away our grudges. This is the message that both of Harvey Lloyd and David Navarro López highlighted in their comments on my previous buzz “Choices with no return point” that prompted me to write this one. To both friends I am deeply grateful.
Forgiveness is opening possibilities; revenge is closing them.
Ali Anani
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Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #39
Thank you Rachel Withers HQ for stopping by and giving me a doze of appreciation
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #38
Right you are Kevin Baker for if somebody doesn't have a healthy relationship with self how could S/H have good relations with others? WE can't give what we don't have.
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #37
Tausif Mundrawala- Yes, I recall your grateful post and I all say that your post and gesture to your friend as well as your comment are all etched in rock. Thank you
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #36
Thank you for your affirmation dear friend.
Louise Smith
منذ 4 سنوات #35
I definitely think it is not at all technical. I thought it was very very clever !
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #34
Thank you for warming me with your comment Louise Smith. It is so nice to read a comment from you after a while. I am glad you liked the title because it seemed technical to me at first. Then I decided to keep it because it is an "honest" title reflecting the idea of the post.
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #33
Fay Vietmeier Fay- I am glad my comment resonated with your words tell a lot about us and my comment reflected the feelings I have reading your comments over the last few months.
Louise Smith
منذ 4 سنوات #32
Fay Vietmeier
منذ 4 سنوات #31
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #30
Fay Vietmeier Fay- I told you somewhere else that the more I read your comments, the more I feel the peace in your heart because of your firm faith of our Creator. I have also noticed that you have studied other religions than yours. May peace last in your heart and soul.
Fay Vietmeier
منذ 4 سنوات #29
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #28
Thank you John Rylance for your challenging comment. Your "two things" make me think. There are forces such as the wind force that we can't predict when it shall blow.All what we can do is be prepared for the unpredictable. Some people may blow their "wind of power" at anytime and what can we do better than being prepared? Sometimes reading a post will send us in a turmoil without realizing it is coming. Nature loves surprises. e The heat maps are judgmental and we need to do more to improve them.
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #27
John Rylance
منذ 4 سنوات #26
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #25
Fay Vietmeier Fay- You reminded me of my presentation as I mentioned in my previous response. The wind of emotions in storytelling https://www.slideshare.net/hudali15/the-wind-of-emotions-in-storytelling Wind blows and ideas blow as well. The potential of creating ideas increases as the potential of different feelings is greater.
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #24
"The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” John 3. Fay Vietmeier- thank you for the inspiration by reminding us of the above great quote. Now,replace the word spirit with creativity or creative ideas and we have a new definition of creativity. These ideas blow in our minds, but we don't know where these ideas are going to take us or where and how they came from. This is what I wish to call now "the spirited chaos". You, Fay, being the "well-spring spirit" don't know where your lovely insights come from pr where they would take you. Isn't this "sweet chaos"> I truly enjoyed your writing and approving the theme of this post= "the global warming of self". Yes, we are part of nature interacting with it at all times. From it we came and in it we must go. It is the good earth.
Fay Vietmeier
منذ 4 سنوات #23
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #22
Excellent comment Roberto De la Cruz Utria and to the point. I am now of the view that a burning fire extinguished itself when it has no more supplies of burning material. I tend now to let people with grudge feed their internal furnaces. If I respond they may find the fuel the stock that keeps their furnaces burning. Yes, you said it right by saying grudge consumes ourselves. In fact, it could do even more harm. I am very appreciative of your highlighting the analogy between our mind climates and the natural climate. I thrive on comments of the quality of yours.
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #21
You are right because unless we discuss the root of fear we only deal with its symptoms.The system might disappear for a while, but the roots of fear get strengthened. If we were to draw heat maps of fear that hasn't been discussed as openly as you and your wife did I am sure the map shall only intensify. Great ideas for further consideration.
Harvey Lloyd
منذ 4 سنوات #20
Fear has many faces. It is the face of fear that we experience in others. But the face is not the motivation but the outcome. My wife and I took a journey a few years back where we set up intimate conversations. There were only two rules. We couldn't describe ourselves by discussing what the other did/does. 2nd we couldn't explain our behaviour by invoking someone else's, either each other our outside the marriage. This made us describe the fear we were sensing in our lives and how others or ourselves were invoking the fear. We developed a confidence and fear language that we now can express our fears and skip over the resulting behaviours. It strengthened our marriage considerably. It also reduced the times we needed to seek forgiveness. If we can't get to the fundamental in our fears then we will constantly battle at the persona level. "Hoping" the other understands my shadow fears. Why hope, why not get it on the table in all its anxiety and find peace within it. We share statements like: That person really made me feel alone; That situation really made me shrink in my self esteem or confidence; That group of people made me eel small. Plus many others.
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #19
With all honesty I don't know of any other person that can read my intentions as you are Harvey Lloyd. I smiled reading your line "For example if fear is triggered, it may produce disgust, which adds anger as a response which through discourse shame and contempt get added, leading to anxiety. Or one of the others".Why is that because I am drafting collecting my thoughts for my next post. One emotion that attracted my attention is frustration leading to anger. I am looking for emotions that put humans on the extreme and far-from-balance. In these situations we need creativity.I have some fantastic examples of creative products that resulted from frustration. Now, back to you I wonder if frustration and fear are linked in any way. I am still pondering on this. Hence, your comment just open my mouth with surprise. I opted to add a face with a thermometer 🤒 🤒 to show you my "thermal image" reading your comment.
Harvey Lloyd
منذ 4 سنوات #18
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #17
Love appears to define itself- this is a great thought. Love is spontaneous and instead of saying self-organizing I say self-defining. Surely, an idea to ponder on.
Harvey Lloyd
منذ 4 سنوات #16
I went to a conference on this topic and one of the speaker very diligently pointed out that we: plan more for a new house build; are more concerned with contract language; and finally the criteria of picking friends............Than we are in understanding the definition of love between a couple. Love appears to define itself within a relationship. But when we fellowship in love we get to learn the definition between each other without the spikes of discontent being the teacher.
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #15
As usual, you challenge our minds with your great comments Harvey Lloyd I wrote few buzzes on love and what it is. One post that generated more than (160) comments is The Paradox of Love: https://www.bebee.com/producer/@ali-anani/the-paradox-of-love Another post is "Because I loved you so much I stopped loving you" https://www.bebee.com/producer/@ali-anani/because-i-loved-you-so-much-i-stopped-loving-you Your comment here is great and when love is a shared value then forgiveness is possible. Love is greater than retaliation and even greater than death. Love is the sponge that absorbs ill=doings and goes beyond their boundary. I do hope to read responses on your comment my friend.
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #14
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Harvey Lloyd
منذ 4 سنوات #13
Ali Anani
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Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #11
Great and keep smiling my good friend Ren\u00e9e \ud83d\udc1d Cormier for sharing the buzz.
🐝 Fatima G. Williams
منذ 4 سنوات #10
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #9
I am the one to thank you Ren\u00e9e \ud83d\udc1d Cormier.I am glad you liked the story. Your buzz is a lovely contribution and it honors me to mention it.
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #8
Debesh Choudhury- yes and you have a point. Your suggestion is great and calls for the standardization of heatmaps colors, regardless of their use. A great suggestion.
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #7
Thank you dear Debasish Majumder for commenting and sharing the post. Our senses feed our brains and it is maturity that treats such information with understanding and empathy.
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #6
Spot on Marisa Fonseca Diniz.I like your concise short comment. In one line you said a lot.
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #5
Thank you Paul and I appreciate your comment. You are a gem yourself.
Debesh Choudhury
منذ 4 سنوات #4
Debasish Majumder
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Paul Walters
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Ali Anani
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