Dealing With Emotions

In this section you will find...

The importance of understanding both our own emotions and of others so we can respond in appropriate ways that are beneficial to our health
What we can do to become aware of our emotions and the effect they are having on us, including a checklist
An understanding of what Emotional Intelligence is
An alternative approach to your health, including Polarity Therapy, Aura Soma, Pressure Point Technique

Dealing with emotions is of vital importance to your health. The physical effects of repressing your emotions have been discussed in an earlier section. It's all very well to say that we must deal with these emotions, but how do we go about doing so, and what exactly is "dealing with our emotions"?

Love Your Emotions

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Dealing with our emotions is facing, accepting and working through them. We will always have emotions, so we have to learn to deal with them. If repressed, they will find a way to come out as in depression, anxieties, panic, eating disorders to name but a few.

A lot of the time, people do not want to feel what they are feeling. They may be ashamed or guilty of these feelings or they just do not like a specific emotion. For example, you start to like your best friend's boy/girlfriend. You don't know how it happened, but you're now stuck in a predicament where you are totally infatuated with your best friend's boy/girlfriend. Automatically, you may try to suppress these feelings. If you ignore them, maybe they'll go away, right? WRONG! The chances are small that your feelings will just leave you and the time of suppressing them, you'll most probably be feeling terrible about yourself, plus, a build up of pent up emotions leads to stress!

Thinking The most important point about dealing with emotions is that you cannot predict what emotions you're going to be feeling next. The one thing you do, however, have a very definite control over is the way you react or respond to your emotions. Getting in touch with your feelings will help you control your behavioural reactions to your emotions so that your emotions do not end up controlling you.