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Our true self is predominantly awareness and consciousness. When the process of thinking is unchecked and undisciplined, it leads to negative thoughts that stimulate negative emotions. As a result, one experiences mental distress, giving rise to a toxic ego that eventually hijacks the driver’s seat of consciousness. Bit by bit, this toxic ego feeds on life’s essence as sustenance, slowly destroying everything around it. In public settings, such individuals are often referred to as narcissists or toxic personalities. In severe cases, they may be clinically diagnosed with psychosis, personality disorders, or other mental health issues.
Here are 20 toxic emotions that can foster the development of mental health disorders.
- Jealousy: Resentment towards others for their achievements, possessions, or qualities.
- Envy: A desire to have what someone else possesses, often coupled with resentment that they have it and you do not.
- Hatred: Intense dislike or ill will towards someone or something.
- Anger: A strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or hostility.
- Vindictiveness: A desire to seek revenge or inflict harm on others.
- Resentment: Persistent bitterness or anger towards someone for a perceived wrong.
- Greed: An intense and selfish desire for something, particularly wealth, power, or food.
- Pride (Arrogance): An inflated sense of self-importance or superiority over others.
- Fear: An unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm.
- Shame: A painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.
- Guilt: A feeling of having committed wrong or failed in an obligation, leading to self-reproach.
- Lust: Intense or uncontrolled desire, often for physical pleasure.
- Despair: A complete loss of hope.
- Doubt: A feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction.
- Malice: The intention or desire to do evil or cause harm.
- Self-pity: Excessive, self-absorbed unhappiness over one’s own troubles.
- Grudges: A persistent feeling of ill will or resentment resulting from a past insult or injury.
- Impatience: The inability to wait calmly, leading to frustration or irritation.
- Suspicion: A feeling or thought that something is likely to be dishonest or harmful.
- Bitterness: A feeling of deep anger and resentment.
When one cross over (aka. Dies) everything is magnified.
When one crosses over into the afterlife, the nature of their mind and emotions doesn’t just persist—it becomes profoundly intensified. In Buddhism, it’s understood that the mind’s state at the moment of death and immediately after has a significant impact on the experience of rebirth, not time-based.
If a person has lived a life dominated by toxic emotions—such as jealousy, hatred, anger, or vindictiveness—these negative states become magnified after death, leading to extreme psychic pain and suffering that can be described as hellish.
Can’t imagine the mental pain?
Think about those nights when you wake up between 3 am and 4 am, unable to fall back asleep. As you lie there, you might start to feel a flood of negative emotions washing over you—stress, anxiety, fear—all magnified by the quiet and darkness. Now, imagine that feeling without the grounding influence of your physical body.
When you no longer have a physical form, everything is heightened—the bad and the good. It’s crucial to cultivate more positive than negative tendencies while you can.
This magnification happens because, without the physical body to anchor us, the soul’s habitual tendencies and emotional states are left unchecked by material distractions. The vibrational energy of the mind, shaped by one’s thoughts, emotions, and actions throughout life, naturally aligns with realms or beings of a similar frequency. This alignment can either lead to peace or to a self-created hell, depending on the balance of positive and negative energies cultivated during life.
If these vibrations are steeped in negativity, our soul naturally gravitates to a spiritual realm populated by similar beings resonating at the same frequency—like bees to their hive. This creates a self-reinforcing loop of suffering, where negative emotions feed off one another, amplifying the pain and distress.
In these suffering realms, the lack of physical barriers means that emotions and mental states become the dominant reality. For someone consumed by negative emotions, this can feel like an eternity of suffering, as there’s no escape from the internal turmoil that now shapes their entire experience. This is the Buddhist understanding of hell—not as a place created by a deity, but as a self-manifested realm born from the accumulated karmic energy of a lifetime of negative thoughts and actions.
How To Mitigate Oneself from Experiencing Hell?
The good news is that while alive, you have the opportunity to transform these negative patterns. By cultivating positive mental states—such as gratitude, compassion, acceptance, loving-kindness, mindfulness, forgiveness, wisdom through the acts of letting go, giving, and embracing loss – it can and will change your vibrational energy.
This not only improves the quality of your life but also ensures a more peaceful and positive transition into the afterlife.
The key path of transformation is to recognise the destructive nature of negative emotions, understanding their karmic consequences, and actively working to replace them with positive, life-affirming states of mind.
By living a life of positive mindsets, emotions, and attitudes with virtue, mindfulness, and compassion, one can ensure a smooth and positive transition, avoiding the self-created hells that arise from a lifetime of negative emotions.
So the next question is, what if one is consumed with dark toxic consciousness?
Read the next article of “The Ultimate Decontamination Realm” – Hell.