Many people have a hard time properly expressing their emotions, either because of excess or lack there, knowing how to express them correctly and proportionately will help you in your personal, social and professional life in a way you never imagined.
There are many theories or techniques that teach how to suppress or control emotions, but it is proven that it is not really effective because emotions and feelings are something spontaneous and automatic that arises in us.
- Avoiding and suppressing your emotions can have negative physical consequences that are more than scientifically proven.
- Current therapies such as acceptance and engagement therapy and techniques such as mindfulness help to accept our emotions and know how to manage them.
- Sometimes as if we were spectators.
For example, if you have a lot of emotional distress, try to avoid it, and don’t know how to channel and express it, you may experience increased heart rate, sweat, tremors, or breathing problems. can cause tension in the neck, face, or several muscles and spine.
On the contrary, if you cling to feelings without expressing them, you may have psychosomatic arterial diseases, headaches or stomach problems, so the fact that our emotions influence our health is a fact.
Knowing how to express your emotions helps us avoid physical problems and emotional pains.
With a little training and following a few simple steps you will be able to better understand your emotions and express them correctly, below you will see these steps so you can practice them:
Sometimes emotional distress has nothing to do with a particular situation, we may be saddened by memories, because we feel fragile in health or by the sad thoughts that cross our heads, you can apply what we said before: accept them as part of you, accept that you are a living person who needs to nurture these feelings.
Accepting oneself as an emotional being is the key to knowing what emotions we feed and that we need to adequately express to others.
Emotions are part of our evolution as a species and also of what defines us as beings different from other species that inhabit the planet, emotions are natural, so don’t fight them all the time, let them do it, but in the meantime, you can do an activity that you know can normally relax you, like talking to a real person , write or take a walk.
If emotions too intense like anger appear, a high intensity sport is highly recommended, as it will allow you to vent all the anger and stress that you have accumulated inside you.
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