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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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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 mean...
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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 adversi...
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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 inc...
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Handling Negative Emotions
Negative emotions are uncomfortable, but they aren’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 ...
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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 it’s important to understand when and why negative emotions might arise, and d...
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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 experien...
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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.
Coded into our DNA, emotions help us respond quickly to threats, like our ‘fight or flight’ re...
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Benefits Of Negative Emotions
- Sadness helps you focus on details, as it alerts you to something that isn’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.
- Anxiety’s discomfort quickly encourages you to seek new ways of appro...
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Stigmatizing "bad" feelings
By stigmatizing uncomfortable feelings, we tend to eliminate the visibility of these emotions in society and people who feel sad or depressed believe they are the only ones who feel this way because they don’t see examples of others living with the same emotions around them.
We can't really control our feelings
But we can control our reactions to those feelings.
By increasing our awareness of emotions and their effects, and then focusing on our thoughts, we can learn to manage our emotional reactions effectively.
The Components Of Our Emotions
Emotions are useful tools while taking a decision, when utilized in the right way. The three components of our emotional experience are:
- Physiological: our bodily changes like sweating, or an increase in heart rate.
- Subjective: Our perceptio...
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