Emotions have a voice, talk to us and tell us how we feel, emotions show us what we need at all times, what if we don’t listen to them, if we ignore them?, we can only cut off their voice, but not their needs.
We live hastily, trying to go faster and towards something else, listening to “don’t worry”, “what you have to do is”, “don’t worry”, “forget”, try not to think about it. ?? All emotions have an adaptive function; if we don’t listen to them, they will be saved and reappear stronger when they have to leave. And yes, many times in unwelcome times.
- For example.
- Sadness tells us that we have to stop.
- We have to be with ourselves and that’s why you don’t want to go out and be with people.
- But joy encourages us to go out and socialize.
- Disgust warns us of possible dangers to our body.
- Fear keeps us alert and protects us.
If we learn to listen to them and not run away from them, we can understand what they are warning us about, so by paying attention to them, we may know a part of us that has been hidden so far or needs that we have. not yet fulfilled.
All emotions, in certain amounts, are adequate and functional, the problem will come when they reach limits that are not tolerable for the person or prevent them from continuing on their way, this happens to us when we ignore them, try to minimize them or pass them superficially.
As we said before, emotions have a voice, so what happens when we face functional emotions?, we turn off their voices, we silence them, but what we can’t do is end what they want to tell us. by listening to them, we can know what they are telling us, they will fulfill their role and give way to other emotions.
The flight of emotions involves healing, silencing or repressing for the sole purpose of passing fast and always being happy and satisfied, living life and enjoying it, it is very dangerous, because it forces us to wear masks. because we are forced, often by ourselves, to reflect emotions very different from real emotions in our faces.
Stop and listen, close your eyes and listen, give what our emotions need, be amazed at ourselves, have a few minutes of loneliness as sadness suggests or, likewise, evaluate the options to throw ourselves into the void in the face. But we won’t know anything about this if, when the voices appear, we lock them up with an anxiolytic or an antidepressant.
Unless they appear in an explosion that threatens to defeat us, we must listen to them so that they do not gain more strength and do not return strengthened afterwards, this voice will get out of hand, so we will need outside help.
Living in harmony means opening our senses, since we live in society and adapt as social beings that we are, but before we are social beings, we are complete beings, so we need a well-formed and stable personal structure that integrates into an external environment.
Thus, emotions are part of us, but they are not “we”, they come and go, some stay longer and others accompany us at certain times. For good or worse, emotions are not eternal. In fact, this brevity is in its definition; otherwise, we would talk about an emotional state and not an emotion.
Sometimes it would be nice to ask you how you feel, what emotion can accompany me right now?This will help us understand what is happening to us and connect with our own emotions, if you do not run away from them you can create a balance in which to build well-being, that balance, in turn, will be based on the idea that no emotion is harmful (in itself), your voice simply says something about what is happening in us.