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We all experience feelings (or emotions) throughout our day.
Frustration, excitement, fear, anxiety, defeat, disappointment, love, pride…
But sometimes when we experience “negative” and “bad” feelings, we try to fix them straight away.
But I want to show you that you can allow yourself to have negative feelings, without needing to fix them.
Because if we constantly try to fix our feelings it means “there’s something wrong”.
So this is what happens:
- We feel bad
- We think “there’s something wrong” because are feeling bad
- We feel bad about feeling bad
- We’ve doubled the bad
Just remove the extra layer of bad.
Stop thinking something’s gone wrong.
Let yourself feel frustrated, let yourself feel disappointed, and let yourself feel anger.
Stop beating yourself up for feeling bad.
Just let yourself feel negative emotions sometimes.
Tell yourself that it’s ok.
That’s all.
Yes – you might still feel bad.
But you’ll also feel so much better.
TAKE ACTION:
- Next time you feel a negative feeling, check in with yourself and see if you’re trying to fix it
- You might find yourself trying to fix the feeling by: overworking, overeating, overdrinking, watching Netflix etc. This just allows you to avoid feeling the feeling.
- You might find yourself beating yourself up for feeling the feeling.
- You might also find yourself reacting from the feeling, e.g. shouting.
- In those moments remind yourself that it’s ok to feel bad sometimes, it’s ok to feel a negative emotion and you don’t have to fix it or avoid it or react from it.
- You can process through any negative emotion much faster by allowing them to be present, by allowing them to be there without making them go away.
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