Learning through your emotions

Learning through your emotions

When we try to avoid feeling an emotion, we deny an important part of
ourselves and we risk losing touch with who we are.

The key to learning about yourself through your emotions is to experience them without inhibiting, judging, or avoiding them by distracting yourself. This is called being mindful. Instead of fighting our
emotions or walling them off, being mindful of them can help us discover more about who we are.

Because of your low self-esteem, you, like many other survivors of
emotional abuse or deprivation, have probably searched for something outside yourself for a sense of completion and a sense of being
worthwhile. You may have looked to romantic love as a solution for
your feelings of incompleteness and inadequacy. But no one but yourself can complete you, fill up your emptiness, or give you a sense of
meaning.
If you give yourself the time and space to get to know yourself and
your feelings, you will find that you can fill up the emptiness, a layer
at a time. Each time you allow yourself to feel a feeling, each time you
allow yourself to express an emotion, you are filling up another empty
space inside.

Culled from Healing your emotional self by Beverly Engel

Abdulkareem,Taoheedah kehinde

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