Emotions: they can run us if we don’t run them. Certainly ‘emotional incontinence’ is not good if you want a contented or useful life. Constantly being flooded and dominated by our emotions causes so much psychological and physical misery for us and people around us. But there is another side to this coin of feeling.
How do you feel about your feelings?
We can feel emotional about emotions. I might feel sad at having reacted angrily, or angry at my own anxiety. Pretending our feelings are not powerful or thinking they are never valid or never as important as the feelings of those around us, can be just as bad as being uncontrollably emotional.
There are many times in life when emotional responses are irrelevant and have to be put aside for the greater good of the situation at hand. Constant micro-examination of one’s feelings can cause loss of perspective. However, sometimes we have to note that our own emotional response is a signal - and sometimes that signal needs to be acted upon.
Being scared of one’s own emotions, or ashamed of them, or feeling they are some how taboo or ‘wrong’, isn’t the same as managing them. This is because they are still there, seeping out. And in fact if you pretend that your emotion, whether it’s fear, rage, or whatever, isn’t happening, then you don’t have a chance to deal with it. Rather than harnessing the power of the emotion or reining it in - it starts to rule you.
This new session from hypnosisdownloads.com Express your emotions is for people who have been conditioned (perhaps during childhood) to feel it is ‘wrong’ to express emotions, from love to anger. Expressing emotions doesn’t mean losing control, rather it means channeling feelings to a productive end.
Benefits of expressing emotions
Being able to express emotions (when you choose to do so) means letting others know that you mean business. Emotions are expressed not just through words but facial expression, body language and voice tonality. When people relax more with this kind of self expression, they instantly become more charismatic. Increased interpersonal honesty can go hand in hand with increased emotional expression.
Mark
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