There are times when all we see in our lives is oppression and lack of harmony. It’s hard to get out of the dark because we don’t understand what’s happening to us or we don’t know how to deal with it. These are times when emotional chaos reigns in our daily lives.
Our world is collapsing under our noses and we don’t know what to do. People shout: I don’t want any more! But because of the confusion, the unpredictability of the future and our mistakes in the past, we are adapting to this situation.
- It seems that there are only shadows that we carry in the form of frustration and other discomfort.
- However.
- There is a way to deal with this emotional chaos.
Below we will show you what to do in this situation, what its characteristics are and the benefits of being aware of what is happening.
“I find hope on the darkest days and focus on the lightest days, I don’t judge the universe. “Dalai Lama?
It represents this state in which we are depressed and confused about our emotions. Most of the time, we associate it with suffering, especially when we don’t know what to do with problems. Emotional chaos is not necessarily the case. It can also be those moments when we feel overwhelmed by positive emotions that we can’t handle.
So that’s when we don’t really know what’s happening to us, we can experience different emotions, but we don’t know how to identify them or express them in words, can they also be considered?Emotional chaos – those moments when we don’t know how to handle what’s happening to us, even if we’re able to do a good analysis of the situation.
In other words, as suggested by the psychologist and author of the book “From Emotional Chaos to Inner Peace,” David Solo, in emotional chaos there is a contradiction between the emotional and rational world that leads us to lose control, guiding our behavioral impulses.
Emotional chaos usually has the following attributes
Emotional chaos can be associated with an emotional blockage. This happens when we protect ourselves to survive a certain situation.
At first it can be a way to protect us, but when the blockage is already at the unconscious level and we don’t treat it, it can lead us not to know how to handle emotions. Whether we need to protect ourselves, the emotions associated with this situation can dominate us.
In addition, emotional chaos can also be associated with dealing with new situations, however widespread they paralyze our decision-making.
To begin with, as David Solo suggests, it is important to know that in the midst of emotional chaos it is difficult to make decisions and recompose what has been broken, however, it can be handled in a positive way.
Paying attention to our emotional chaos will lead us to be more assertive, in addition, we will have other benefits such as:
The process is gradual. We cannot expect that overnight we will drastically increase our level of control and will never again have emotional chaos in our lives. Like any human being, we will have ups and downs, the important thing is to learn from each other.
Getting out of the shadows, fear, confusion, guilt, stop blaming others or seeing emotions as something external is possible. It consists of dancing with the shadows, knowing them, inviting them out at the right time, learning from them. them and gradually transform them into well-being.