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How to Deal with Feeling Bad About Your Feelings
Meta-emotions are feelings about feelings
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Meta-emotions are feelings about feelings
4 Types of Meta-emotions:
- negative-negative (e.g., feeling embarrassed about feeling sad)
- negative-positive (e.g., feeling guilty about feeling happy)
- positive-positive (e.g., feeling hopeful about feeling relieved)
- positive-negative (e.g., feeling pleased about feeling angry).
Negative-negative meta-emotions
... are the most common type. This indicates that many people get upset, nervous, or angry about their own negative emotions, in particular.
Dealing with meta-emotions
- It's important to know which emotions you are feeling before you can start to change your reactions to those emotions.
- It also helps to appreciate your negative emotions and the work they do for you.
Negative emotions are important
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Emotional Regulation
Is your ability to modulate or control the type of emotion you’re feeling, how long you feel that emotion, how strong it is, and whether you can turn it from negative to positive. Good emotional regulation, lets you get over negative feelings relatively quickly.
Having bad emotional clarity is thought to lead to low emotional regulation, which is linked to depression and rumination.
Emotional Clarity
Involves your ability to identify what you feel with ease. It affects mental health by predisposing people to depression.
This is a “subjective” ability. There is no external objective reference point for naming your emotions. Emotions are also relative qualities, meaning different people have different definitions and experiences for a given emotion.
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Depression vs. sadness
- Sadness occurs when something feels bad.
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When something feels bad, at least it has meaning. In depression, everything becomes a big blank void.
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Mindfulness
... is a collection of practices aimed at helping us to cultivate moment-to-moment awareness of ourselves and our environment.
Meditation sharpens your attention
Meditation helps to counter our tendency to stop paying attention to new information in our environment. Other studies have found that mindfulness meditation can reduce mind-wandering and improve attention.
Larger randomized controlled trials are still needed to understand how meditation might work with other treatments to help people manage attention-deficit disorders.
Consistent meditation
Long-term, consistent meditation mindfulness changes our ability to handle stress in a better, more sustainable way.
- Practicing meditation reduces the inflammatory response in people exposed to psychological stressors.
- Mindfulness practices help us to be less reactive to stressors and to recover better from stress when we experience it.
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