The Emotional Pendulum Effect

Human nature is a reactive force with an innate ability to influence the course of lives involved. I describe emotional influence as a swinging pendulum of cause and effect. As someone seeking emotional stability, I remain affected by every action my consciousness perceives as insignificant. The aftershocks of negative energy, which contribute to emotional turmoil, shift the desire for positive interactions toward harmful stimuli. The way I influence humankind heavily depends on my voluntary responses. Our impressions leave endless emotions aimlessly swaying between love and hate.

Relationships face challenges due to vulnerable and subordinate patterns of behavior. When anger breaks the essence of a heart, damaging the foundation of faithfulness, core virtues must defend against the damaging vice. In a virtuous love affair with another’s soul, a couple feels the inward sway of the pendulum. Any disturbance in the force of love swings the pendulum into an outer realm, where a lack of respect destroys everything built during the nurturing process.

When the pendulum swings far from an individual’s emotional comfort zone, defensiveness replaces self-confidence, leading to overt displays of aggression. Insults become the preferred weapon, fueling selfishness, and acts of anxiety cause significant harm to the psyche. Ending a relationship that once seemed strong affects trust, and when combined with heightened insensitivity, betrayal reaches an irreversible point.

The pendulum crosses the boundaries of an emotionally intelligent participant, submissive to an unfamiliar battleground; the participant retreats from the relationship, leaving unresolved conflicts haunting the human consciousness. The emotional pendulum effect stops, floating, still in uncertainty, as our emotional state dwells in darker perceptions of self-care, self-respect, and self-worth.

To repair the pendulum, a focused mental effort reestablishes its energies, shifting the paradigm of importance back to the deserving nature where lessons in love provide hate a stage to perform.

The pendulum of a soul willing to explore the vastness of one’s emotions will sway back and forth between pleasure and pain. Accept love’s counterpart, hate, has its natural components to encounter; it is a human response to having a good relationship with one another.

The only alternative is to cut the cord that hangs our pendulum in the middle of a troubled heart.

Is love not inevitably ours? Trust that insecurity is a natural way to live one's emotional life.