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. 

• 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...

• 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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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.