Emotions are inherent to us, so we can’t get rid of them even if we want to, feel anger, jealousy or hate is normal, although they are negative emotions that we should be able to deal with. The big problem is that you didn’t teach us how to do that. However, with the help of our own imagination, we can learn.
We know that negative emotions are not a source of fanfare, so we try to suppress and hide them, it is not a good technique because, as you probably know, they eventually resurface one way or another, even if you are not. able to choose what emotion to feel, what you can do is think about what to do with those negative emotions that we don’t like very much.
- What’s a train doing.
- Staying in the same place? No.
- A train travels.
- Comes and goes.
- Many times we have been told to imagine our life as a train on which people travel.
- Some stay and others descend.
- For now use your imagination to visualize this same train.
- But loaded with your negatives.
- Emotions.
When you feel angry or angry, it seems that it is not possible to get rid of these emotions, they have adhered to you in such a way that it is not possible to release them, the truth is that you do not leave them. go, but you let them stay. You have to start seeing them as if they were on a train that, in a few minutes or a few hours, will take a different route.
You may find it hard to imagine your emotions on a train, you may even think you can’t help. You are not aware that your mind is the most powerful thing you have; in it, if you think anything is possible, it will be so; if you think you can’t go any further, that’s going to happen too.
Answer this question: why don’t you worry about positive emotions? If they aren’t a concern, then negative ones shouldn’t be either. The problem is that we give them a lot of importance because they give us very negative feelings. Don’t give them importance, don’t focus on them. If you do, the train will begin its journey and leave.
This can be a very appropriate technique to use with children, but the truth is that it can also work very well for us adults, sometimes we suppress our emotions so much that we escape them, ignore them, even if they are still there.
Therefore, it can be very positive to embody your emotions. Unleash your imagination and imagine that your jealousy or anger is in your hands. Try to imagine how much it weighs, what color can it have, whether it’s big or small?gives characteristics to your emotion, you observe it and analyze it.
This will allow you to manage it more efficiently. Instead of ignoring it, you describe it and it will help you handle it. Imagine you see it too big, dark and heavy. This will make you think about whether this is really the case or if you’re giving too much importance to your case. a very irrelevant situation.
This technique can also help children at home, as they often don’t know how to handle their negative emotions, sometimes we don’t know either, but not because we don’t know, but because we don’t want to face them. . However, remember: even if you ignore them, they will be there, they will not leave, and if you do not solve them they will consume you.
Negative emotions scare us. Once you’ve learned the previous step, you may end up with a terrible ogre that represents the anger you feel inside, perhaps a great dark shadow, drawing the silhouette of jealousy, in any case if you want to get rid of it, you have to neutralize that fear that afflicts you.
Using the above technique, having emotions in our hands, they will not survive if we ridicule them. Think of this terrible ogre imagining that he is speaking in a ridiculous voice or notice that this shadow wears a terrible set of skirt and hat. it will make you smile, and even if you don’t believe it, it will help you let those negative emotions flow, disappearing through the hole you opened.
We can’t get rid of negative emotions, but we can get rid of them, using these imaginative or other techniques, it’s possible to stop feeding them so they don’t get bigger and bigger. , can lead us to do things that we will certainly regret later.
It can be ridiculous for you to think about all this to handle your emotions, but it can help you repeatedly. Don’t think about how stupid this can be, because your negative emotions are enough, they’re ridiculous. Think like that and you can. Drop a great burden full of negativity and bad thoughts. Your imagination is more powerful than you think.