The Scale of Emotion/Vibration

In our vibrational universe concept, emotions, like thoughts, are vibrations, and can be placed on a graduated scale from lowest to highest. Higher emotions like joy and contentment and happiness correspond with higher intelligence and energy and health. Lower emotions correspond with lower intelligence and lower energy and ill-health. Counselors will find it beneficial to know where her client is on the scale, and to know the client’s likely reaction if he or she were to rise or fall from that position. Knowledge of the scale is also very helpful in everyday life, particularly in relationships.

First let’s present the scale of emotions:

This scale is a measure of increasing (or decreasing) life force energy, intellectual capability, and happiness. Here is a 3D version of the scale:

Explanation

Let’s say you are a counselor and you begin with your client in a state of apathy. After working with her for 15 minutes, the client begins to cry. Is this a bad thing? Well, the emotional scale says that grief is higher on the scale than apathy, so you keep going. After 15 more minutes, however, the client gets really angry. “Oh no, what have I done?” you think. The emotional scale shows that anger is actually higher on the scale than grief. There’s more life force there. So you keep going. Eventually, if you have excellent confronting skills – which, by the way, you can get trained in – you get past the anger and into the area of positive emotion.

This scale can be applied in life to every situation. I’ve been using it for 50 years in my own life. My wife and I use it to maintain a happy marriage (Jenny and I have been married since 1978).

If you train yourself in this scale, by observing, in training drills, every emotion on the scale, you get familiar with how the emotions go up and down and how they relate to each other. (See the Traumatic Incident Reduction website for more information.)

This scale of emotion was constructed through hundreds of hours of observation by a brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Sarge Gerbode. It works every time!

How to Use the Emotional/Vibrational Tone Scale

As an example lets take Barb and Jill, who had planned to go out for lunch. Barb is apathetic about her life, and calls Jill up to cancel their appointment. She's moping around at home and Jill says"Ill be right over." Let's say that Jill has a good knowledge of the emotional/vibrational scale.

Joe and Moe are in the same situation. Joe calls Moe and tells him he cant play golf that afternoon, and Moe, who hasn't got a clue about the scale of emotions, comes over to get his friend out of his funk.

Relationships

Barb and Jill

“What’s wrong Barb?” says Jill.

“Oh, I just don’t care anymore,” Barb says apathetically.

Jill is just about to fire off an angry comment about Thorpe, Jill’s former boyfriend (that big jerk) but she realizes that a very large vibrational gap exists between apathy and anger. Apathy is very low on the scale of emotions and Jill doesn’t want to overwhelm her friend, so she says gently, “It’s Thorpe isn’t it?”

Suddenly Barb bursts into tears, an activity that used to really piss Thorpe off. “Damn women,” he’d think, “what the hell is wrong with her now?” But Jill knows that grief is the next harmonic of vibration up on the scale of emotions, so to her Barb’s reaction is a sign of progress. Barb is wailing on about Thorpe and how lonely and rejected she feels. Jill is a good counselor, and even though she thinks to herself, “You’re a whole lot better off without that loser honey,” she says nothing and lets Barb vent a little. She knows that although being around grief is uncomfortable, matching Barb’s vibration would result in failure, for two vibrations of grief would just reinforce the other, sticking both women right in it. Jill knows that only by maintaining a high vibration herself (combined with a lot of empathy) can she be of any use to Barb at all.

After several minutes Barb is cried out and looks up at her friend. Jill recognizes that Barb is poised on an emotional brink; and that a word or gesture from her can send her friend up the scale or back downward. She also knows that people can hit an emotion and pass by it very quickly on the way up or down, so she’s not sure exactly where Barb is going next, but she knows it’s going to be some version of negative emotion, and is prepared for it.

Jill says, “You had some good times together, didn’t you?” hoping to bring Barb up emotionally a little. She doesn’t say, “Still feeling sad about Thorpe?” because that might stick Barb back in grief.

Barb says, sympathetically, and a little defensively, “Yeah we did! I remember the time we went to the putt-putt golf course and he put his arms around me.”

Jill lets Barb go on a bit, because she recognizes the emotion of sympathy, which is a little bit up from grief.

After a time Jill suggests, “Maybe you’ll meet somebody else.”

A look of anxiety comes over Barb’s face and she says, “Do you really think I can? All the guys I’m attracted to treat me like crap.”

“Yes I think you can. You’re such a great person.”

To see how Barb uses the scale of emotion / vibration to bring her friend all the way back up to the positive range, see the book The Vibrational Universe

Moe and Joe

The conversation with Joe and Moe is a lot shorter. Moe walks in and sees his friend apathetic, and knows it’s all about his job. But Moe has heard that story over and over and he’s tired of it. He’s got a beer in one hand and his keys in the other and says. “C’mon Joe, let’s go. Were gonna be late.”

“Screw it,” Joe says apathetically.”I’m not going.”

Moe says angrily, “Get out of it, you woman! Are you going to sit around here all day and cry?”

“Fuck you, Moe!” Joe says.

“C’mon, let's go,” says Moe, rattling his keys. Since Joe is a guy, and guys aren’t supposed to cry, (although that’s exactly what Joe feels like doing) he has to make his decision quickly. Joe decides, hell, why not play some golf, it doesn’t matter anyway. So they both go out and Joe plays terrible. He’s not very interested in the game, thinking about his crummy job and how desperately he wants to change his life, but he just doesn’t know how.

“You played like crap Joe,” Moe crows after the round. “Got you by 13 strokes!”

“Yeah whatever,” Joe says.

“Let’s go to the clubhouse and get a few beers,” Moe suggests.

“Sure.”

We leave Moe and Joe here. At this point, Joe is still stuck in apathy, because he hasn’t really changed his thinking or his focus. For a brief moment Moe made him really angry, but it didn’t last.

Relationship between the Emotions

You can also use the Emotional Tone Scale to bootstrap yourself up the emotional ladder.

If you're in apathy and begin to cry, that's a step UP. Mostly what happens is that a person begins to cry and says “Oh what’s the use! I still feel rotten,” and gives up. Giving up is the same as apathy. So you’re right back where you started.

When you are fearful and make a step forward, you get angry. Society does not like angry people; the authorities like to put such in jail. In school angry kids are drugged to make them conform. This puts them lower on the scale, in apathy mostly. The fact is, an apathetic person is easier to control and easier to get along with.

Why is anger more positive than fear or grief? Because an angry person is more animated. In general, the more animated a person is, the more life force is present.

When a person in anger takes a step up, they might feel antagonistic. An angry person is spewing, he's out of control. An antagonistic person is more directed, more under control. He’s resisting much less and feeling a little better. And he’s more rational.

Why is boredom higher than antagonism? Because there's less resistance. Boredom is a higher harmonic of apathy and a lower harmonic of serenity. Antagonism is a higher harmonic of anger, and a lower harmonic of exhilaration. Emotions are just vibrations, and they have higher and lower aspects.

Of course, the emotions on this scale will feel more comfortable to different kinds of people. For example, I used to know a guy who much preferred antagonism to boredom or conservatism. Once you get out of the deep negative emotions it's just a matter of where you feel most comfortable.

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