We teach children to read, write, dress, or bike, but what about emotions?Teaching positive emotions can become the key to happiness. Positive emotions help us become more resilient to difficulties. People who face adversity but don’t break are able to feel positive emotions even in stressful situations.
Many mental health problems have an emotional origin and poorly understood and repressed emotions hurt our body and mind. Emotions are always “educated,” the difference being that they can educate themselves, for better or worse. Good can consciously affect them, helping to understand, transform and regulate our emotions.
- Teaching emotions is educating for life.
- Emotional intelligence means having a set of skills to recognize our own emotions and those of others and also to be able to manage them properly.
A few years ago emotional education consisted of learning to suppress certain emotions and not letting them emerge in public, however, fortunately, little by little, we are discovering emotional intelligence, to give it the importance it deserves, and this includes the good expression of emotions, not their repression.
The ideal way to reduce future levels of violence and increase altruism is to learn socially and emotionally from an early age, if a child is able to identify what their feelings are and those of their peers, they will know how to react properly and serve them. as a basis for improving your social skills: knowing what to do at any given time.
Here comes the integration of children with social problems, so that they understand how others feel and others understand how they feel, in addition, being able to express their own emotions will make her not a girl without a voice, but a girl who will seek help when she feels in danger or threatened.
Positive emotions allow to implement receptive and flexible thought patterns, leading to the emergence of situations and new behaviors. It is possible that this way of thinking has preceded the great discoveries and most important achievements in human history.
It is hard to imagine Michelangelo irritated by painting the Sistine Chapel, Newton frowning under the apple tree, Edison or Marie Curie depressed in his laboratories, on the contrary, it is easy to imagine them thinking of possibilities and alternatives, combining elements that are first impossible, absorbed in their task, moved by contemplating their progress towards a desired and meaningful goal for them.
Following the same line, liver disease diagnoses were found to be more successful when doctors were well (Fredrikson, 2003). Success this study referred to doctors who took less time to integrate case information and those who were less likely to rely on initial thoughts and therefore make fewer premature diagnoses.
Positive emotions not only help us feel better about ourselves, but also improve our personal skills and abilities. Experiencing positive emotions on a daily basis allows us to feel more and more a state of global happiness.