Emotions are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.
The ability to experience and express emotions is more important than you might realize.
As the felt response to a given situation, emotions play a key part in your reactions. When you’re in tune with them, you have access to important knowledge that helps with:
- Self-care
- Decision-making
- Relationship success
- Day-to-day interactions
While emotions can have a helpful role in your daily life, they can take a toll on your emotional health and interpersonal relationships when they start to feel out of control.
Identify what you’re feeling
Taking a moment to check in with yourself about your mood can help you begin gaining back control.
Accept your emotions — all of them
Accepting emotions may lead to greater life satisfaction and fewer mental health symptoms. What’s more, people thinking of their emotions as helpful may lead to higher levels of happiness.
Take a deep breath
Slowing down and paying attention to your breath won’t make the emotions go away (and remember, that’s not the goal).
Still, deep breathing exercises can help you ground yourself and take a step back from the first intense flash of emotion and any extreme reaction you want to avoid.
Try Meditation
Meditation can help you increase your awareness of all feelings and experiences. When you meditate, you’re teaching yourself to sit with those feelings, to notice them without judging yourself or attempting to change them or make them go away.
Keep taking time to develop inner peace and strength through meditation/ mind-training.
May all be blessed with peace, love and wisdom.
Continue your practice
Would you like to go deeper? Explore Awakening, my complete online meditation course. All my courses are pay what you can, so everyone can learn these practices.
With love,
Michaël
