After she is finally carted off in a blanket, the disturbing emotion she has stirred up settles onto the stage but never really disappears.
The stoic philosophers wanted to avoid any disturbing emotion, but, as I've pointed out in my book The Stoic Art of Living, in a discussion of Epictetus, they went too far.
Make sure you release all the feelings of stress or disturbing emotion in the drawing.
The Dalai Lama uses the term "emotional hygiene" to urge us to get our disturbing emotions -- anger, frustration, anxiety -- under better control.
Instead of finding the quiet center of a bizarre and exhibitionistic heroine, Little Edie (Ms. Ebersole, in the second act), "Far From Heaven" seeks to elucidate the big and disturbing emotions beneath Cathy's shiny, conformist surface.
Shaun, Grand Rapids Dr. Shapiro responds: Yes, my self-help book "Getting Past Your Past" contains a wide range of techniques used in E.M.D.R. therapy that readers can employ to deal with disturbing emotions, physical sensations and beliefs.
Biting into her mother's lemon cake, she tastes "absence, hunger, spiralling, hollows", and is shocked to realise that these disturbing emotions emanate from "Mom", belying her happy, fulfilled exterior.
The horror is not only that a sweetly smiling teenager is giving voice to disturbing emotions, but that this penchant for self-degradation and co-dependency is within us as well: she's tapped into it and forced us to enjoy it.
But when you consider how many of us, when worried or facing difficult circumstances, cope by keeping ourselves very busy and with little time to think, it isn't that much of a surprise to find that sitting without distractions, with only ourselves, might lead to disturbing emotions rising to the surface.
Having an existential crisis is arguably one of the more disturbing emotions humans can feel.
The End of Poverty? prompts more disturbing emotions and requests greater sacrifices than purchasing a recording or ticket.
