The Seba library treats Elation in 6 passages, across 5 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Easwaran, Eknath, Ogden, Pat).
when the doing of the individual is at the same time a cosmic happening, the elation of the body (innervation) becomes one with the elation of the spirit (the universal idea), and from this there arises a living whole
Jung argues that in genuine yoga practice, bodily and spiritual elation must coincide to produce psychic wholeness, making their union a criterion for authentic integration rather than mere technique.
, Psychology and Religion: West and East, 1958thesis
he stands above the sway of elation, competition, and fear, accepting life, good and bad, as it comes
The Gita’s ideal of the liberated self is defined in part by transcendence of elation, which is grouped with competition and fear as destabilizing forces that prevent psychological equanimity.
, The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living: A Verse-by-Verse Commentary, 1975thesis
Not allowing ourselves to get elated is neither callousness nor passivity; it leads us into a deeper level of awareness where we find we are completely secure and joyful. Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression
Easwaran presents elation and depression as a paired oscillation such that every increment of elation guarantees a corresponding descent, making the suppression of elation a spiritual-psychological discipline rather than an emotional deficit.
, The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living: A Verse-by-Verse Commentary, 1975thesis
Having access to a full range of positive high-arousal emotions (joy, elation, passion) and low-arousal emotions (tenderness, tranquility, contentment), ability to tolerate emotions such as anger and sadness
Sensorimotor psychotherapy classifies elation as a high-arousal positive emotion whose accessible range is a marker of emotional health and effective affect regulation.
, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Interventions for Trauma and, 2015supporting
the level of intensity of the joyful, excited infant as attaining extremely high levels of activation, almost maximally tolerable to the developing nervous system
Schore’s neurobiological account of the mother–infant dyad describes escalating mutual joy approaching system-tolerance limits, providing the developmental substrate for what later clinical work terms elation.
, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development, 1994supporting
the basic quest in Alcoholics Anonymous was to be for balance, for some middle course or happy medium. Attention was directed to the excesses of acting out or of denial as harmful
The AA program implicitly treats elation as one pole of a mood excess requiring the same regulatory attention as depression, situating affective balance as the overarching therapeutic goal.
, Not God A History of Alcoholics Anonymous, 2010aside