5 Daily Practices to Harness and Use Your Emotions
"Every feeling you have carries a message from your body, many of which are very useful. Your feelings can energize you, direct you, motivate you, and even connect you to others. The process of healing childhood emotional neglect involves getting back in touch with the emotions you've been blocking so that you can listen to their messages and harness their energy.
5 Daily Exercises to Harness and Use Your Emotions
1. Acknowledge and Welcome Your Feelings
When you give your emotions an opportunity to speak to you, you’ll be able to see that they hold important messages that tell you a lot about yourself.
Daily Practice: Tune in to your feelings. Identify and write down your feelings three times a day.
2. Work on Trusting Yourself
The more in tune you are with your own feelings, the better you can make decisions you trust.
Daily Practice: Before any decision you make, be the first and last person you go to for guidance.
3. Increase Your Opportunities for Enjoyment
Daily Practice: Keep a journal of your likes and dislikes. Incorporate things that give you joy into your routine.
4. Challenge Your Impulses
With some attention, patience, and self-compassion, you can train your brain to manage your emotions and exercise more agency over your impulses.
Daily Practice: Every day, do one small thing you don’t want to do (but should do), or stop yourself from doing something you want to do (but shouldn’t).
5. Uphold Your Boundaries
It takes strength to say “no” when you have learned it’s wrong, weak, or selfish. The more you can identify your emotions, the easier it will be to identify what you need, and sometimes your need involves setting a boundary with others.
Daily Practice: Try to say "no" more often. Keep track of the number of times you're able to say no."
Read the complete article available at Psychology Today!
Reflection:
Are you able to identify and express your emotions in a healthy way? Do you practice any of these 5 methods?
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@comfortableNight4463
Thank you for your post. it is really, important to keep up with our emotions. thanks. take care
@colourfulLily It is. You're very welcome. Thanks for reading!
@comfortableNight4463
Yes keeping in touch with our emotions are crucial to our wellbeing and is especially important when we are in a profession where we need to help people feel better.
@professionalVision2624 Exactly. When we keep in touch with our own emotions, it helps us understand other peoples' better!
@comfortableNight4463 Some years ago there was the false perception that emotions should not be involved at the workplace and specifically in some specific roles.
Emotions though are part of us and they can never be excluded from our everyday lives. It's healthy to embrace and express our emotions in a healthy way.
In fact this can benefit the way we cooperate with others and skills such as perception and decision making.
Thank you for the great post!
@calmDew1576 I agree. Emotions should be felt. It's unhealthy to bottle up emotions in certain places and it can be quite daunting as well. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
