Do you ever feel like your living in an emotional pinball machine? Does it seem that the events and people around you are impacting your personal happiness? In this day and age, a particular issue among many westerners is the tendency to not address emotional concerns. Too often we are told to not express our feelings or that the feelings we experience are inappropriate. For instance, western society dictates that feelings like sadness and anger are not appropriate to display. In reality these emotions are important and indicate our natural way of processing events. When we do not properly express our emotions, stress builds up and dis-ease may manifest.
Check out these three easy emotional freedom hacks below to help you enjoy more inner peace and happiness. Caring for ourselves emotionally is an important part of the happiness recipe. But how do we learn to process our emotions when we have never been taught?
Read on to begin to answer this question and find easy ways to live more emotionally free.
1. Practice Introspection
Have you ever felt sad, angry, or upset and not known why? If so, this is an indication that you may not be fully connected to your emotions. We cannot begin to release our emotions until we understand them. The answers to why we feel what we feel are inside, however society teaches us to ignore or suppress those emotions, particularly when they are negative. For instance, if an individual feels embarrassed over something, they may choose to ignore the source of their embarrassment so as to avoid the “negative” feeling of embarrassment. When this happens, the feelings we ignored or pushed away will reappear in our consciousness when our psychological defenses are weak (which happens when we are tired or stressed). These feelings resurface dissociated from their source. In order to release the emotions we must face the source of the emotions and integrate them. This only happens through an introspective activity such as meditation, hypnotherapy, couseling or journaling. For this reason we recommend practicing some kind of introspection either on your own or with a professional so as to get to the root of why you are feeling what you feel.
2. Address your emotions
When you become aware of the cause of the emotions you are feeling, the next step is to address those emotions. What this means is taking the appropriate action to change your behavior so that that particular emotion is no longer felt, or so that a more positive emotion can take its place. For example, if you become aware that a source of shame you possess is due to acting selfishly in some way, the solution is to figure out how to act in a selfless way. If you are feeling anger over an unresolved conflict with another person, the solution is to come to terms with that person. If you feel guilt over taking something that doesn’t belong to you, then the solution is to return the thing that was taken. Sometimes we get to the point where we are backlogged with negative emotions that need to be sorted out. It has been said that at the heart of all suffering is unforgiveness. This is the point that dis-ease manifests and is incredibly common. The way to combat that is to go back through your history and address every single issue that is continuing to produce negative emotions. Once you do this you will be emotionally balanced and free!
3. Live in the present moment
After you have addressed all of your emotional concerns you will be living in a state of emotional balance. This is exactly where you want to be, however this state will be lost if we reactivate old behavior patterns involving ignoring or pushing away our emotions. It is necessary to live in a way that you will not consciously produce negative emotions by regulating your behavior and making positive decisions. Once you understand your values and what makes you happy, it is important to live in accordance with that knowledge! Therefore the final piece to living emotionally free is to live in the present moment. Sometimes easier said then done. We recommend starting with a few minutes of meditation or journeling every day to begin to bring you more into the present. Address your emotional concerns as they arise and you will never experience a backlog of negative emotions again.
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Remember, we must face our emotions to find balance!