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Emotions

Emotions

They are basal responses that begin in the subcortical areas of the brain responsible for producing biochemical reactions to environmental stimuli that have a direct impact on our physical state.ย 

Coded into our DNA, emotions help us respond quickly to threats, like our โ€˜fight or flightโ€™ response. Also, they can often be measured objectively through physical cues such as blood flow, heart rate, brain activity, facial expressions, and body language.

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Feelings

Feelings

Feelings are preceded by emotions and tend to be our reactions to them. Emotions are a more generalized experience across humans, but feelings are more subjective and influenced by our personal experiences and interpretations, thus they are harder to measure.

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Negative Emotions

Negative Emotions

They can be defined as unpleasant or unhappy emotions evoked in individuals to express a negative effect towards something.

Although some are labeled negative, all emotions are normal to the human experience. And itโ€™s important to understand when and why negative emotions might arise, and develop positive behaviors to address them.

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Handling Negative Emotions

Handling Negative Emotions

Negative emotions are uncomfortable, but they arenโ€™t a sign of weakness or low emotional intelligence and ignoring them can increase emotional pain. Exploring and understanding their purpose, we can learn ways to respond which supports our emotional growth and sense of well-being.

Emotions are a low-level reaction so you can decide how you respond to them and not let them hijack your behavior.ย 

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Rumination

Rumination

Spending too much time dwelling on negative emotions and their sources can lead to a spiral of rumination. Rumination is obsessing over negative emotional situations, which can eventually negatively affect your mental and physical wellbeing.

The problem with rumination is that it increases your brainโ€™s stress response circuit, meaning your body gets unnecessarily flooded with the stress hormone cortisol, which is a driver for clinical depression.

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Research On Rumination

  • It has been linked to overeating, smoking, alcoholism, insomnia, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and clinical anxiety and depression.
  • Excessive rumination after a negative emotional experience leads to prolonged recovery time from the physiological impact of the experience.
  • Many confuse it with problem-solving which can lead to prolonged ruminating and further implications for mental and physical wellbeing.

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Benefits Of Negative Emotions

Benefits Of Negative Emotions

  • Sadness helps you focus on details, as it alerts you to something that isnโ€™t right and asks us to turn our attention to why this may be.
  • Anger can motivate you to address problems in order to restore peace.
  • Anxietyโ€™s discomfort quickly encourages you to seek new ways of approaching problems.
  • Guilt serves as a self-punishing device for perceived transgressions, thus helping you change or prevent negative behavior.
  • Jealousy more often turns into โ€œbenign envyโ€, which motivates you to work harder.

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Negative Emotions as Motivation

If we can reframe difficult or negative emotions as part of the bigger picture of overall happiness, they can instruct us that a change is needed and we need to act on the negative behavior to create the change that would lead us to further happiness.

This approach sees us embracing adversity, discomfort and negative emotions as a path to building better resilience and a deeper connection with who we want to be and how we want to show up in the world.

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Process Negative Emotions

Process Negative Emotions

One of the best ways to deal with negative emotions, in us or in others, is through acceptance. It allows us to build better compassion for how they might present themselves and why.

Acceptance allows us to change how we might respond to negative emotions and develop behaviors that are meaningful and bring value to how we express ourselves and engage with others.

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