Emotions are one of the most important contents of our psychic life, that is why they represent, how they occur and their ability to condition physiological thoughts and processes, can change the rhythm of our heart, the pause in our breathing or the electricity in our skin.
They are unique because they inspire and because they allow us to recognize others as people like us, similar in joy, pain or surprises. Similar in large functions, because in fact we are very different when it comes to small functions.
- There are no two faces that exactly match your wrinkles or expression; the same goes for the emotional echo within us.
We said in the title that emotions are double-sided pieces, both also valuable, even if they can be influenced and rebel against us, which is the first?No, it’s not the face of a king or another recognized face. The first face of emotions is the message: what they say or try to say.
Joy says Hey! If you haven’t noticed yet, something good has happened!Recharge your batteries because you’ll enjoy something and there’ll probably be fun. The smile appears and our face lights up.
We become a kind of flower that opens up because we want to share with others what happens to us; all this embracing the emotion of all our will.
Joy also tells us that we are right in the decision made, it validates the chosen procedure and strengthens it so that, in the next similar dilemma, we have a better chance of choosing the same alternative; In addition, joy makes us more generous, less suspicious. And understanding his message, we can also feel that, perhaps, we’ve been a little “idiots” about worrying so much.
“Joy has been called the beautiful time of the heart. “Samuel smiled?
Sadness also has messages for us. He tells us that we have lost something that somehow matters to us, whether it’s a friend, an opportunity or even an object we love very much for.
Sadness is also an invitation to stop and reflect, often telling us that there is something that does not fit our history and to which we must pay some attention in order to integrate into it, without causing suffering or harm.
Perhaps the emotion that has the most dangerous message is disgust, it is a direct and energetic invitation for us to move away from what caused this emotion, basically acts in the same way as fear, warns us of a danger, even if it is, with this emotion, the repertoire of answers is less, the most common thing is to avoid.
These three emotions are examples of the first side of the coin: the message, so here it is clear the function of emotional intelligence, it is about knowing how to listen, of knowing how to identify what emotion is trying to tell us.
But it’s not that simple, why, in fact, is it so hard?
Well, because it’s very difficult to experience one emotion at a time, how many times do we feel joy and fear when we start a new project and suddenly doubts arise about whether we’re prepared for this or not?
Just as we also feel joy and sadness when we have been able to seize an opportunity, but knowing what it means to abandon many others that we would also like to take advantage of?Or when we move and end up approaching some people, but at the same time we move away from each other.
You came home exhausted, went to the kitchen to eat something and suddenly you noticed that black smoke came out from the bottom floor, at times like this tiredness disappears and you immediately start moving.
It’s exactly the same as when a student takes an exam the next day; He is able to spend hours and hours studying. Many of the emotions we feel give us more energy than any of those sugar and caffeine-rich beverages we found there.
The more intense the emotion, the more energy it will bring us, it can be very positive if we are in the jungle and we come face to face with a lion, but in the contemporary world this energy needs to be regulated smarter. For example, we can do a lot of harm with the energy of anger or anger, both for others and for ourselves.
We may be sorry to say something to others, cause pain or leave unwanted injuries that will be very difficult to forget. When we save too much energy and don’t look for ways to externalize it, we also harm ourselves.
That’s why exercise and sport are so important to emotions: they allow us to expend this energy without harming ourselves or others.
Face or crown? Well, as we’ve seen, emotions are face or cross. It’s information and energy. Very powerful elements that can bring a lot of joy if you know how to channel them intelligently.