Emotions: Learning to Listen
Emotions are not problems to solve. They are experiences to pay attention to. They show up when something matters, when something shifts, and when something lands.
Most people learn to manage emotions by controlling them. Stay calm. Be rational. Move on. But emotions do not disappear because we ignore them. They go underground. They leak into the body. They show up later as anxiety, irritability, numbness, or conflict.
A lot of suffering comes from not knowing what we are feeling, or not trusting what we feel. We override. We intellectualize. We second guess. We turn emotion into story, judgment, or self-criticism. Or we act fast, so we do not have to stay with the discomfort of not knowing yet.
Feeling an emotion is not the same as indulging it or acting on it. Feeling means allowing the experience to be there long enough to register, without immediately fixing it, explaining it, or using it as a weapon.
Read More:
How To Practice Emotion Regulation
Understanding How Feelings, Needs and Thoughts are Connected
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