September 16th, 2025

 Briana Ní Loingsigh 

In the Irish language, we are not our Emotions. We are not sad or anxious. We have sadness or anxiety on us.

To say I am sad we say tá brón orm - there is sadness on me.

I am anxious, tá imní orm - there is anxiety on me.

The language recognizes these as passing states, not permanent fixtures of who we are.

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What a Wonderful Method of Viewing Emotional States. 

I ponder the following emotional states (below) as they manifest and are expressed through the Corporal Human Experience. And as such they are limited to Our Shared Human Experience. 

Interestingly Love is not considered an Emotion, again I ponder the significance of this. From my perspective the Love of which I speak is sourced beyond the Human Experience, it is the sustenance of the Spiritual Realm. And readily available to all seekers. 

For myself I was mired in and believed in the Human Experience as the end all. I couldn't imagine trusting anything more that I did My Human Experience ~ this is where I effectively blocked the Sunlight of the Spirit. Through the work I've undertaken (with my Tribe) and patiently and painstakingly I was humbly graced with a moment of illumination of the deepest, most inclusive, expansive glimpse of Our Source, Our Shared Birthright and Our True Home. 

Researchers at University of California, Berkeley identified 27 categories of emotion:

admiration, 
adoration, 
aesthetic 
appreciation, 
amusement, 
anger, 
anxiety, 
awe, 
awkwardness, 
boredom, 
calmness, 
confusion, 
craving, 
disgust, 
empathic 
pain, 
entrancement, 
excitement, 
fear, 
horror, 
interest, 
joy, 
nostalgia, 
relief, 
romance, 
sadness, 
satisfaction, 
sexual desire and
surprise.
Saddness
Anger
Depression 
Fear 
Abandonment

Love is often not considered a basic emotion due to its complexity, duration, and the fact that it's a multifaceted phenomenon encompassing feelings, thoughts, and behaviors, rather than a fleeting, reactive response. While some psychologists define it as a complex emotion, it is more accurately described as an attachment, a disposition, a physiological drive, or a combination of these, which makes it fundamentally different from short-lived, stimulus-bound emotions like happiness or sadness