CHALLENGING YOUR FEELINGS FOR IMPROVED EMOTIONAL HEALTH

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​Emotional health is so important.
 
You only have to look at the world around you and read the news to realize how vital it is to learn to care for, support, guide, heal and master our emotions. It is a social and educational short coming that this is not a part of our foundational education (yet), but there are discussions and signs that this could be changing.
As a certified hypnotist, I really see up close and personal how our emotional health directly correlates to our happiness,  our goals, our desires, our relationship quality, our work quality and our overall success and fulfillment in life.
 
Emotions are natural. And even low emotions have their usefulness and their benefits.
Even unwanted, darker emotions have a place in our life as they provide important information and allow us to process our experience on earth.
 
However, when emotions begin to get in the way of living our lives in the best way possible, we need tools to learn to manage them.
 
Medication is, of course, an option. And for some people, it may be the best option.
 
For most of us, however, we can also benefit from learning to control and master our emotions. I'd like to start by asking you a question...
 
Are emotions real?
 
I would say yes...only in the sense that something is happening. But emotions are simply responses to neurological, physical and mental stimuli that are occurring in the body.
 
Many, if not most, of our emotions are actually in response to thoughts, and thoughts are simply interpretations of everything that is happening to us.
 
One of the brain’s main jobs is simply to make sense of everything that happens to us and everything that we see and experience. The objective truth is that we're all a bunch of electrons of varying density, speed and frequency.
 
But the brain needs a different story in order to make sense of that.
 
So enter the senses and our thoughts. Our emotions are responses to our senses and thoughts…so are emotions real?
 
One of the most powerful ways that I learned to regain control over my emotions was to question them and see them in a different way. This enabled me to strip the intensity from them.
 
If you find yourself feeling a way you don't want to feel, it can be helpful to sit with the emotion if possible and ask yourself, “I wonder what thought is contributing or causing this emotion?”
 
I can't tell you how many times I've done this myself, only to find that a brief painful memory, the perceived meaning I assigned to something someone said or a brief thought of something I have to do in the future has unconsciously caused me to feel badly.
 
Habits of emotion are often caused by habits of thought. So, if you notice a habit of emotion, it may benefit you to get curious and to peek and see what maybe lying beneath.
 
Remember that thoughts are not objective truth, but rather subjective interpretations of things that happen to us.
 
And because of that, they can be switched out for better ones at any time, resulting in better, healthier feelings more often.




ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kesha Dent is a certified hypnotist, certified RTT hypnotherapist, transformational coach and author of "Life Change Now: A 3-Step Guide to Manifesting What You Want Through the Magic of Being Who You Are". She helps professional adults to achieve life success, overcome anxiety, reignite their confidence and break out of their limitations to create a life of purpose, productivity and passion. You can find her at www.newworldcoaching.org  .