Being at Peace With Your Emotions

Written By Colēgia

There are a wide variety of emotions that we experience at every stage of our life. Happiness, sadness, excitement, anger, and calmness just to name a few. Each of them serves a unique purpose and are helpful. Sometimes we may not want to acknowledge our more negative emotions and might push them away but they're a part of us. Today we want to discuss the importance of being at peace with all of our emotions.

Every Emotion Has Their Place

While some of our emotions are desirable to have on a consistent basis, it's good to remember that every emotion has its place. Let's break down a few of these. Anger is often considered a negative emotion by some. It's usually in response to something that has happened to us or someone else. It's good to keep in mind that in this case, we don't want to use anger as a means of taking it out on someone. A much better approach is to use it to help motivate you toward positive change. This is better since we're able to regain control of how we feel while also validating our thoughts too. Reveling in our good emotions like happiness is also worth doing since it can teach us the value of gratitude.

“While some of our emotions are desirable to have on a consistent basis, it's good to remember that every emotion has its place.”

Understanding How we Feel

Understanding why we feel the way we do is important. This is mainly because it helps build the bridge toward compassion and self-care. Sometimes it can be hard to pinpoint what exactly is going through our minds at times. A good way to help with this is by adding meditation into our daily routine. One of the core benefits of meditation is that it can help us see what we're thinking about in a safe manner. A calm and quiet space is ideal since it can help us clear our thoughts and be in tune with our emotions. In order to truly understand our feelings, we need to approach the in a manner that is gentle. This also ties into our next point.

“Understanding why we feel the way we do is important.”

Accepting Who we Are

Acceptance is another element that goes along with understanding our emotions. It's good to keep in mind that while we may have expectations of who we want to be, this needs to be tempered with care. Being able to accept all of our qualities, both good and bad is part of this. The same applies to our emotions. Sometimes we might simply be having an off day and this is okay. We can't always be expected to be 100% perfect with our feelings since that isn't realistic. Being patient with ourselves and others is the key to being at peace with ourselves. Learning how to slow down and check in with how we're doing is a small yet helpful thing we can do to validate our emotions. There are many wonderful things in life and to best appreciate them we need to be okay with how we feel.

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