![]() ![]() ![]() If you want to live a life that’s filled with meaningful connection and a solid relationship with yourself, it’s important to hone the skill of expressing how you feel. Lost relationships, strained relationships and a disconnect from yourself are a few to mention. Many problems will arise with this way of coping as a permanent solution. The issue with this tactic is that shutting down emotions consistently can become a bad habit and lead to a permanent disconnect from our emotional state. If we didn’t have the skills or support to cope when hard experiences presented, it’s a natural response to shut down and numb out emotions that are too painful to feel. If we’ve experienced a past situation that brought up emotions that were too much for us to handle at the time, we might have picked up the habit of shutting off emotionally in order to self protect. It’s easy to get in the habit of ignoring or disconnecting from our inner world, especially if past situations have brought up big, intense emotions. Beneath the part of us that’s not being truthful when saying, “I’m good,” “I’m fine.” “Everything is great,” when it’s really not. Beneath all the doing and distractions that you could bury yourself in as an attempt to avoid what’s really going on emotionally. In a nutshell, feeling your feelings is the art of decoding what’s going on with you beneath the surface. What does it mean to feel your emotions? How do you do that? ![]()
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