Managing Your Emotions
Tip #4: Practice feeling your emotions daily
Practice naming your emotions. If you feel sad, say to yourself, “I am feeling sad".”
Practice feeing emotions, especially the uncomfortable ones.
Be still, scan your body, and notice where you feel it in your body. Emotions last approximately 90 seconds if no other stimuli is present. When you strengthen tolerating unwanted feelings, in turn you will enhance feeling the pleasant ones, like happiness.
Why it works:
Consider that emotions are not bad and you are not wrong for feeling them. Although, they do feel bad at times. For survival, our bodies are designed to have emotions and they have a purpose. For example, the fight, flight or freeze response from our brain helps to keep us alive from threats or perceived threats.
