Hello all! I was unsure if I should put this in with meditation as this goes hand in hand with that, or mysticism as most of what I am talking about here is directly derived from that.

Also, if enough people wish I can keep this list updated as more are discovered.  With that in mind, this is going to be a long read, with a lot of key info packed in tightly. To keep my own sanity, these lists aren’t going to be all-inclusive especially at initial posting. I’ll save that for the book I’m writing and further edits to this post.  

In another topic I stated I would go over what tools of the mind are used for which specific tasks, but before I do that I need to go into what practices this is important for, and why knowing this brings clarity to your own inner journeys. Primarily, this knowledge pertains to self mastery (stoicism, mysticism, alchemy,) meditation, vibrational work, and energy work among others. In the self mastery practices listed above the clarity from this knowledge has been invaluable to me in breaking down what states I need to work with to get the results I want, and is more of a lifestyle than something you practice. In meditation, knowing these things can allow you to reach new and exciting meditative states. In energy work, knowing what state you are moving energy from is fundamental to getting the results you want. 

So what are the tools I am talking about? I am talking about emotions, states of being, core parts of your being like your conscious and unconscious, and behavioral actions such as comparing something to something else. When I compile this list later in this post, I will separate each of these categories because understanding what category of your being you are working with helps bring clarity to what you can do, and what you should not do, and I will try to list as much of the things that isn’t necessarily a good idea to use these tools for. 

I have a concept in my head that I use when working with these. You can “equip” multiple tools at a time, or fewer tools that take more of your personal energy. Judgement, for example, is a one handed tool that people often use with other tools (comparison, for example,) often without conscious awareness that they are doing so. Some tools aren’t for the hands, for example emotions are energies moving through your body that is directly influencing your state. Attention is a tool that is always on (and on your head as I visualize it.) I will often use this aide that I have to help me understand these aspects of myself and help categorize them, but that of course doesn’t mean you have to adopt it. 

So the tools themselves? 

Emotions and Other Energies

These are informative tools. They identify what our relationship is to whatever our attention is focused on. I am initially using the list of 27 emotional categories as studied by a few universities as a starting point, but editing that as fits this particular list. Note that you can often feel multiple emotions at the same time so a single emotion may not fully identify what you are feeling at any given moment. Some of these are states of being unto themselves while others are aspects of states, with a state being what “stance” you are in for the purposes of interacting with something. 

1. Admiration: An emotion identifying someone or something we appreciate and which ties into our personal values. 
2. Adoration: A more intense version of admiration, the difference being that if you adore you strive to match the object of adoration. 
3. Appreciation: Something we see the value in. 
4. Amusement: identifies something in the environment that is giving an individual a positive novel experience. Note that the word positive is relative, positive to one person may not be positive to another. 
5. Anger: This is a heavily nuanced emotion identifying a couple possible things, listed below. Anger is also a state of being. 
   1. our personal values are at risk or the boundaries around those personal values are at risk, but more specifically to the individual at a personal level. An example is when we get frustrated that we aren’t accomplishing something, which leads to anger. Society teaches us that we need to succeed quickly to survive, which is often something taught to us as children. Frustration itself is another facet of anger.   
   2. We have been hurt in some way. 
6. Anxiety: Identifying something we are worried is going to cause us harm or grief. This is often experienced in a state of worry. 
7. Awe: Identifies something that is causing a positive reaction in us.
8. Awkwardness: Identifies something we are not accustomed to or have a framework for interacting with. 
9. Boredom: This is both an emotion and a state of being. This emotion is heavily nuanced and can mean:
   1. Our environment isn’t fulfilling us
   2. Our patterns aren’t fulfilling us
   3. The company we keep isn’t fulfilling us. 
   4. We have a need for something new and can’t identify what that new thing is yet. 
10. Calm: This is both a state of being and an emotion. As an emotion it simply identifies that we feel safe at the moment. 
11. Confusion: Identifies that something in what we are interacting with needs to be analyzed and understood. 
12. Craving: Identifies that we want something, to the point where it drowns out other emotions. When a desire gets to the point of being a craving it identifies that too much energy has been put into desiring something. 
13. Desire: identifies that we want something. 
14. Disgust: Identifies something that is causing a negative reaction in us. Note that you can be angered and disgusted at the same time. 
15. Excitement: This is a state as well as an emotion. Identifies something we want to experience.
16. Fear: Identifies something we feel is actively putting us at risk of harm.  
17. Gratitude: This is both a state and an emotion. Identifies something that is good for us. 
18. Horror: Identifies something we feel is putting our life in danger. Is also a state.
19. Interest: This is a state as well as an emotion. Identifies something we are curious about, something we wish to pursue. 
20. Joy: This is a state as well as an emotion. Identifies something that we are enjoying experiencing. 
21. Nostalgia: Identifies something that, in the past, we had joy or interest in.
22. Friendship/Romance: Identifies another person you are currently having positive relation with. Note this isn’t referring to dating, I just don’t have a better word for this at the moment. 
23. Sadness: Identifies something that has happened that we wish had not. 
24. Satisfaction: Identifies that we feel a sense of completion with something. 
25. Sympathy: Identifies that something about what someone else is going through is similar to something we went through. 
26. Triumph: A much more intense version of satisfaction, identifies a lot of energy went into whatever has been completed. 

Behaviors

Behaviors are things we do, but aren’t necessarily patterns in themselves.

1. Analyzing: trying to understand something using logic. 
2. Comparison: used to measure two like things. Often used to compare two things not alike, which is the wrong way to use this tool. Often used in conjunction with other tools
3. Focus: used to concentrate on something, or put our energy into a more specific field. 
4. Judgement: a tool used to measure something against our values. Often used with other tools. 

States of Being

States are a combination of mood, thought, and being which we use to interact with aspects of ourselves and our environment. Note that much like emotions, we can in fact experience multiple states at once. 

1. Gratitude: used to experience the things that enhance our lives. 
2. Joy: used to experience a moment that we are grateful for and are actively enjoying.
3. Survival: something is threatening to harm us so we enter a state of focus and control. 

Core Aspects of ourselves

These are things like our conscious, subconscious, and attention. 

1. Consciousness: Directs attention 
2. Logic/Analysis: Solves problems
3. Subconscious: processes information and filters out information based on attention and state

Note: This post is going to be part of a larger book I am writing so I will be editing this as time goes on. I’m going to be posting this in it’s incomplete form for feedback for now.