I see we are working through our emotional body. We have an ultimate self, and I wonder if you are able to share what Yogi's say about the physical/emotional and mental body.
I think, especially as Cancerian males, we tend to peer into the emotional body. It is a great work to realize all our discomforts as they arise, all our egoic complexes and instead of run from them- or run over them with mind numbing distractions, we allow ourselves to experience them. Allow ourselves to be made uncomfortable, but by doing, the uncomfortable becomes a little more bearable. We ask ourselves, what am I really being shown here? And we face the uncertainty, even if there is an element of fear or intolerance, with the belief that we are working on healing an aspect of our emotional body- this emotional body and energetic work may even extend to past lives... And on a greater, cosmic scale, our host planet and this region of time/space may have an emotional body we are collectively working through as One(one people).
There are three bodies we have incased in one another. The physical, astral and causal bodies. Imagine three bottles in one another. First we have the small physical or material body and around that is the astral body. Around both the astral body ( which you are referring to as the emotional energetic body ) and the physical body is the causal body ( which you have referred to as the mental body. ). As we go outside the physical body we experience the astral body more and more. And as we leave both the physical and emotional bodies, we experience the causal body of ideas.
It is an interesting point you made here Eric because we see and meet people functioning, more or less and at different times, in one of these three bodies.