I know what you mean. How I explain it is: I think at a basic level, the negative path (which you helped me see more clearly - thank you) is about denying the emotions. Whereas, the positive path is about acknowledging the emotions. Relinquishing is a great concept, but there is more to it than that for me at this stage. I cannot merely wish my unsuitable reactions to go. I have to set up a boundary and say "no". Maybe if I knew some way to just release it, I could, but I don't.

I think it would be negative to say, I do not have this emotion, I hate this emotion/reaction. It must go! But it is positive to say, I DO have this emotion and reaction. At which point I spend time realizing perhaps why I am having this reaction. And then I say, No, I will not allow this reaction to occur any more because it is not conducive to the whole of me.

As for the definitions, I think ours have a lot in common. Thank you for sharing yours and helping me refurbish mine. Though I wish I had written my heart definition as "Through divine will, the heart is a divinator (compass) for truth." And the same phrase to preface my definition for feelings, which is how I wrote it on my worksheet. Because I feel that I am animated by divinity who drives me and steers me. I need only flow along rather than fight/struggle.

Once when I was sick and fevered, I asked/prayed, "Why am I sick?!" I lay down in a bath of hot water and opened my mind for the answers. I'm going to paste what I received and wrote in my journal because it seems so apt in this discussion and explains where my definitions originated.