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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.
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Meta-emotions are feelings about feelings
A meta-emotion is an emotion that occurred in response to another emotion: Perhaps you teared up while watching a sappy movie with friends, then felt embarrassed about feeling sad. Or perhaps when you were a child, you felt happy your sibling was reprimanded, then felt guilty about feeling ha...
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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 fee...
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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.
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Negative emotions are important
They are signals that alert you when something is not right in your environment. They can also serve as signals to others that you need help or support.
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Dealing with Tough Feelings
- Painful emotions are not toxic or dangerous, they are human nature.
- Allow yourself to feel, don't fight it. Those emotions gotta flow through.
- Do self-soothing stuff like deep breathing, baths, walks to cope when emotions get intense.
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Accept Your Emotions
Allow yourself to feel your feelings, so you don’t spend more energy avoiding them than you would on feeling them. This way you can focus on the situation, fully experience the feelings and maybe better understand why it hurts and what to do about it.
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Choosing to deal with negative emotions
Ignoring feelings (like "stuffing your anger") is not the healthiest way to deal with them. generally speaking, that does not make them go away but can cause them to come out in different ways. That’s because your emotions act as signals to you that what you are doing in your life is or isn’t wor...
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