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Yet there is no compulsion to perceive a certain challenge as negative or positive only. This evaluation depends entirely on our current attitude towards it. While interacting with a particular challenge our perception may easily change from negative to positive and vice versa. • Positively charged challenges are easy to identify. We
desire specific situations that trigger joy, satisfaction,
acceptance etc. · When we dislike, detest, hate etc, a situation, person or object, we confront negatively charged challenges.
NOT WANTING something to occur
does NOT remove the challenge. On the contrary - this kind of rejecting emotion is a sure way to attract the exact situation we want to avoid. And further there exists a strange mixture of negative. and positive emotions we only experience in stages 1 to 5.
This is a state of thrill in which we balance precariously between excitement and apprehension, mild worry and sometimes even physical pain, - a condition slightly out of the ordinary that heightens awareness of surroundings and feelings. While in Stage 1 to 5 we consider these kind of situations 'interesting' or 'thrilling'.
Example: We are about to leave someone we dearly love. Though we still are together with the beloved, we often feel a kind of melancholy that mixes ache with joy. Concluded challenges are perceived as neutral. They do not trigger emotional reactions within us and thus hardly affect our life.
