text: to continue what Heartbreaker said: ... spin a person into the ground. The intellect and will have been hog-tied and gagged in the trunk. Emotions have been allowed to dominate a person's focus, their time, their thoughts. They lead a person into one place: unpeace, eventually death."
  
  First of all, I wish you peace and an integrated spirit that respects the whole person: body, mind, spirit, heart, will. Our emotions are a gift. For years Catholic ascetical practice denigrated "feelings" and emotions. I know because this is how we were trained when I first entered the convent fifty years ago.  It is precisely the denial of or lack of care for one's feelings that leads to problems. Our spiritual work is to integrate our humanity in Christ for the good of all. Integration takes insight and work and gentleness with self and others.