[Sisyphus2]

I have noticed within my own life, in the course of attempting to manifest intentions, that my negative emotions seem way stronger than my positive ones. You are supposed to energize your intentions by feeling right now the same emotions you would feel if you achieved your goal. Also, you are supposed to mentally block all emotions and thoughts that contradict your intention. The problem I seem to have is that my negative emotions are way stronger than my positive ones, to the point where I can't even tell if I'm actually "feeling" my positive emotions at all.

If I imagine having all of the money that I need, the only thing I can imagine "feeling" is a sense of relief from the stress of not having enough. Is this really a positive emotion?

Napoleon Hill says that "faith" is one of the emotions you need to utilize most. Is that really an emotion? I can't say that I've ever "felt" it.

Happiness is allegedly an emotion, but I can actually only think of a few isolated times when I've felt it throughout my life, and they were very brief.

On the other hand, feelings of hatred and despair and guilt are very strong for me, and when they pop up they become overwhelming. I can't help but think that these strong emotions are having a much greater effect on my intentions (counteracting them) than these week positive emotions that I am trying to conjure up.

I don't think I'm unusual in this regard. I think in general our lives our filled with way more negative experiences, and thus negative emotions, rather than positive ones. Even emotions like love and desire seem to be based on negative things like lacking what you want (desire) and fear of losing it (love).

So anyway I guess this is really an uphill struggle!