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Pride And Its Family Members Pride is an unruly way of praising yourself.  Pride as explained by my online English Dictionary, it is "an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others."     Pride is a thing of the heart, it deals with your motifs, you can ordinarily be speaking good of yourself, but innerly, you are doing it to let them know you are better off. It is a habit that delight in pressing others down while you are praising yourself.      Pride is a habit, a very quiet and good habit that can easily destroy man. Good in the sense that, it makes you see the good sides of yourself, on the other hand, it is quiet in the sense that, you won't know that, as you focus on your own good sides alone you are blind to your bads and goods of others around you. In short, pride is the father of selfishness.     If you ...

Eroticism-eros love is a kind of love that stems from physical love or sensual desire. It involves sexual desire, a sexual emotional affection. Know this that, Love on its on own has nothing to do with eroticism, but in the context of marriage, Eros is an emotional part of love that should be satisfied.    Many of them singles these days take Eros (Emotional Affections) for love, meanwhile they are not in any way related. True love does not stem from eros, but eros from true(agape) love, and that is only proper in the context of marriage.     However, unmarried people naturally have this kind of sexual desire which is natural, as long as you are human being. Eros is an emotional part of love designed by God for MARRIED couples and it is wrong for singles to satisfy such.     The devil on his own has infected the generation of man with this desire before marriage to wind away their concentration with life purpose. No wonder, we have lots of singl...

Hope is a reaction to positive touch(on your feelings), it is an assurance, a positive assurance of what has not happened. It is a confident reaction that stems from faith. Hope is a by-product of Faith.    Words spoken have the  ability to touch feelings and those words can be positive or negative. They (words) might not necessarily be negative at times, but when not filled with grace, they touch feelings in a negative way that brings fear and anxiety. In essence, what you listen to has the ability to influence your feelings and Emotions.     A lot of people are been tomented by fear not because they are fearful but the negative informations percieved by their feelings breed fear in them. An instance is the recent issue of pandemic spreading across the globe, informations posted about it will definitely kill some people before the pandemic spread to their region.     As earlier mentioned, hope is the by-product of Faith and the Bible says,...

  Gratitude is a kind of Emotions which grows out of or a reaction to contentment. Contentment in this sense is been pleased with what you have or what you are given. Gratitude flows out in a serene mode, it is a cool kind of emotion.     When a gift is given to you by someone and you are pleased (contented) with it, the act touches your feelings and the reaction to it is gratitude. Gratitude is not necessarily the words of appreciation you give, (infact, those words can be uttered when you are not really pleased with the situation) it is a kind of emotional reaction that springs up in you, it is often mixed with joy and much pleasure, the external reaction is what can not be buried, the face is full of smiles, because it springs from the deepest place of the heart.     In our societies, even in the Christendom, many people are in the habit of "faking" the experience of this pleasure filled emotion called gratitude. They smile even when it's not from...

This is the kind of Emotion that springs out of perceived feeling of Joy. When the feeling of Joy touches the heart, the outer reaction of it is happiness. Happiness is a reaction to the percieved feeling of Joy.     Joy is a signal of being satisfied and safe. When your heart desires are satisfied, you feel safe and cool and that touch of joy gives you a smiling face. Happiness can heal broken hearts and it gives Strength to the weary. Happiness like other kinds of Emotion is a natural feeling that is beneficial to man's health.      The basic key to happiness is being always happy. The question is, seeing the various challenges encountered on daily bases, is it possible for man to be always happy?      Yes of course, man can keep the positive Emotion on every time, infact it is an antidote to sadness. But, happiness stems from satisfaction. Meaning, if your desires are not satisfied, your Joy can not be full. Know this truth tha...

Fear is a kind of Emotions which is induced by percieved threat. We are not talking of fear(out of reference) for someone or even phobia. Phobia might not spring up out of awareness of danger, it is basically lack of confidence. Therefore, the kind of fear we are talking about is a strong and unpleasant Emotion that stems from threat or awareness of danger.   For instance, the case of viruses spreading across the globe is threatening danger that push into the heart of majority and breed fear.      Fear is reaction to the percieved feeling of danger. The awareness of the danger of the spreading viruses is a big threat to many.    This also involves a kind of irrational fear, fear of the unknown- being afraid of the unseen future.    The most dangerous kind of Emotions to one's health is fear, fear kills faster than any disease. A fearful or timorous man is a living dead.     The dangers of fear includes premature death and hea...

Appetite is a kind of Emotions. A very strong emotion to that stems from physiological desires.    Appetite is a craving for something, not only food. It is a strong desire to attain or get something. It is simply the "I want to" and "I must" in every human being. Appetite is a natural phenomenon, but when it grows out of control, it is dangerous. How is appetite related to or a kind of Emotions? Remember that, percieved feelings refer to emotions. While craving and longing to get something, there is a kind eagerness, unrest or anxiety that arises in the process, such is a touch one's feelings. This feeling grows as the appetite is unsatisfied and because of the curiosity to be satisfied, appetite can make someone to be desperate to do anything. To have appetite for something is normal, but inability to control it is unhealthy physically and spiritually.     A lot of destinies have been joepardized for lack of emotional control, especially that of ap...