Don’t ignore your feelings
I have come to the understanding that your feelings are
there for a reason. Some people may claim others to be too emotional or
emotionless. And I feel that everyone is entitled to have his or her emotions.
My major disclaimer is to not let your emotions control your whole life because
emotions can become erratic. However, totally ignoring your emotions could mean
the death of a relationship, the discontinuance of your dreams and ultimately
living a miserable life. I truly believe that emotions are a gift from God to
allow us to enjoy life even more. Emotions is the feeling of looking at a random
butterfly on the beach and allowing a person to feel the complexities of life
in one glance.
It takes a lot of gale to listen to your emotions because
they are telling you something about yourself that you may not understand at
the moment. And emotions are quick to get out of hand if not adjusted in a
timely fashion. Some times we either give into them too easily or try for years
to ignore them. My solution is to allow your emotions to flow, but at the same
time try to take an objective stance upon them. This objectivity allows for a
greater understanding of the way you may feel about a specific situations or
person. It might not be that you are in love with a person, it may mean you
enjoy the feelings that the person brings when you around them. This alone may
prevent a lot of people from being married and this actually may be good them
when looking at the current divorce rate in America.
On the other hand, some people are too emotionless. I think
the solution to this issue is to let your guard down around certain people your
trust, not everyone; and write in a journal. I think people who are emotionless
were hurt severely when they may have disclosed a personal issue to another
person, or feel that they did not get a desired response when they revealed an
intimate and close detail about themselves. These people need to make an
extreme effort to get over the fear of being hurt again or not getting a desire
result. Living a life such as this only festers into something greater.
All in all, emotions do get a bad rap a lot of times because
they seem to have a tendency to put people in predicaments that they can’t get
out of with the same emotions. As long as we guide our emotions, there is
nothing wrong with them. We have to keep our emotions in check just as we have
to keep our spiritual and physical lives in check.
Ronnie Rice, PhD
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