The battle between love and hate

Love and hate sound like opposites, but they're not at all. What is the opposite of love?

Love the feeling of connection and unity and harmony with another person or place, or spiritual idealism. Love feels like a passionate bond with anyone or anything we like. The strongest, we feel bound together with those we love, emotionally and spiritually and often inseparable.

Discover the contrary you have to look at your emotions. Mention your experience in your life and think someone she loves deeply. Can be a family or friend, lover, teacher or mentor. Note your emotional level for awhile. Now imagine what I feel like if this connection break suddenly and completely.

What is the feeling? It is certainly not hate. More like the sad, feeling the loss. This is a real opposite of love, because what you feel in the absence of loving passion.

Now imagine the preferred place, your hometown or a special vacation spot, in a place like that really. How would you feel if you could never go there again? What would the feeling be if it could never again enjoy the qualities that make a very special? There is no hatred in this sense. It is sad.

Grief and sorrow of the opposites of love. Hatred do not enter even in the picture.

Hatred is quite different. Hatred is anger so that it may become fixed in your mind. You hate when you can't or won't let this go. We eat hatred. Where love feeds us with vital energy, consuming hatred of our life force. She wears us down.

Emotions are often confusing. For this reason it is helpful to understand that love and hate are not opposites. To love to hate, it may pass through anger. You can see that sometimes occurs in divorce spouses where feels the loss of love brings grief to anger one of love and hatred towards each other at the same time.

Learning to understand our emotions real support emotional health. When you select your feelings on what they are, you become more flexible. You are better prepared to find backup your emotional balance quickly.

The next time that you feel is hate fan inside you as somewhat terrible person you, realize that anger, not lack of love. Then find your way to love.

Stewart Cohen is the author of "the seventh" system: "power of your emotional system". The book presents intriguing new way to understand emotions and emotional balance. Please visit http://www.seventhsystem.net/to view excerpts from the book, and code. Order through the website. Print versions also available through Amazon Kindle.