The Healthy Way To Deal With Your Emotions Is To Communicate With Them
It’s the night time. When most of us allow our anxieties and difficulties to creep in and find a place in our minds. We allow them to stay without an effort to communicate or understand them. We don’t face them or confront them, and so our anxieties find their opportunity to get comfortable. And if we do confront them, we fight them. We fight them as though they are an enemy.
How are your emotions your enemy? They are your own. A part of you. If you don’t treat your emotions with kindness and understanding, then how will you treat yourself with kindness and understanding? We treat our emotions as if they are inanimate objects. No communication. No understanding. Nothing. We battle them with the sole purpose of defeating them, and in the process, we end up defeating ourselves.
No, my friend. Here is where I want you to stop. I want you to go back to yourself and embrace your emotions. See those anxieties? Ask them why. Have a conversation with your anxieties and stresses. A kind, thoughtful conversation with the purpose of understanding. Of getting to know yourself better and better. Write down your questions with yourself, answer them through emotional processing. And remember to breath every once in a while. When you find yourself stuck, when you find yourself at a crossroads where you are unsure of how you feel, breath. Give yourself time to recollect your thoughts. Don’t stop. It’s a practice. Dedicate yourself to this practice.
Until you are able to say to yourself “Hey, I know how and why I feel what I feel.”
Do you understand yourself better now, my friend? Good. Now, you can quietly put your anxieties to sleep. Let them go. Let them go for a walk, or a drive in the night as you rest your head.
Here’s a simplified version of dealing with your emotions:
1. Write (Get a journal and pen out)
2. Think (have a conversation with your emotions)
3. Understand
4. Embrace
5. Let go
Practice this and you will find yourself living in peaceful harmony with yourself
