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We get beastly urges pushing for harmful action. Listening to these desires that hurt destroys our lives.

We are pulled into harmful routines by emotion. We feel and then we react. Unfortunately, our reaction isn't always helpful. We need space to think and then act more appropriately.

link banner: We encounter unpleasant and angering events often. The emotion is normal; but how we think about triggering events either fuels the anger or douses it, so we can act in tune with long-term intentions.

Emotions are a significant aspect of living, giving meaning to experience; but strong emotions can misdirect action, destroying futures, and limiting opportunity.

Communicating when Emotions are heated

Emotions start a biological reaction preparing the body to respond; but sometimes the response destroys.

Link: Healthy living isn't all logic or all emotion but a smooth blend of both. The aliveness of feeling mixed with the preparedness of thought.

Our emotions are programmed by the past, they arrive in the present, interrupting happiness. We can adapt and adjust through awareness.

Experience dredges up the past, uncovering hurts and tender parts of our souls. To survive, we must find productive avenues through these moments without damaging the present and future.

importance of emotions

FLS Link. The Fleeting Emotions. When emotionally flooded, it is difficult to cognitively inject thoughts to escape the moment. We need habitual practices that we automatically integrate into these moments that calm the system first, then we can cognitively join adapt, thinking of the future.

some emotions overtake are ability to react appropriately, interfering with goals.

When we expertly greet our child's emotions with empathy, acceptance and reciprocation, the child develops a positive relationship with their own feelings--a major contribution to healthy living.

Emotional Pain

FLS internal Link. Mental Fatigue and Emotional Responses: Our minds get tired. A prolonged flow of strong emotion exhausts our brains and we break, saying and doing things we would otherwise prevent. We must accept this biological given, avoid circumstances where exhaustion is probable, and repair hurt feelings when we respond harshly to those who we love.

Link: Emotional intelligence is the skilled coordination between feelings and logic to guide relationships, action, and healthy development in a person.

A powerful punch may win the argument but at the cost of damaging the relationship.

Our moods impact perception coloring the world in bright colors of joy or the dull grays of sadness. Understanding the impact of a mood and recognizing the presence of a mood softens judgments and improve our life.

Our bodies react biologically to experience. We feel life first. Cognition joins in and creates explanations for the feelings, creating the foundation for more complex emotions.

True communication proceeds from the heart; not the mouth.

The ache of co-dependency and the fear of emotions all hinge on our capacity to process discomforting emotions. True connections share emotions. Each partner willing to receive the other partner's experience and patiently work through the emotion together.

Emotions lie beneath the surface, often unnoticed while they covertly hijack our motivation and push action.

Emotions motivate behavior; behavior stirs emotions. Around and around we go in this complex cycle of becoming.

Emotional Responses to Life

Our thoughts propel us into fruitful and prepared futures, but they also can haunt our peaceful moments with worry and guilt. By mindful attentiveness to the nature of our thoughts we can gain the benefits and limit the harm.

Living is an emotional experience. We experience an array of emotions, charging and depressing the soul. We shouldn’t demand only pleasure, the movement of feeling is the richness of experience.

Emotions are primary motivators for action. Sometimes misguided action needs to be inspected for appropriateness.

Empathy open to other peoples emotions

FLS Link. Emotional Patterns: The tug and movement of feeling flows through our bodies and puts in movement responses. We should recognize the process and intervene when habitual responses are unproductive.

We live blind and deaf to the primary motivating force of action. Feelings unnoticed nudge us to act. We gain a deeper appreciation for life and measured control when we develop our relationship with emotion through focusing.

Past memories influence emotions and emotions motivate action. Learning the connections helps us identify when pasts and emotions are interfering with desired futures.

Limitations always are present, sneaking into our relationships, and signalling failure; but imperfection is part of the game. We must make room for the limitations.

Negative Emotions

Our emotions can be great teachers or callous task masters. We need emotion as part of the rich experience of humanness to guide us through the complexities of connection and survival but we must monitor feeling to keep us on task.

FLS Link: Emotional Triggers. Success with intimacy requires working through sensitivities provoked by relationship fears.

FLS Link. Emotions and Empathy. The feelings of living come to life, pushing experience into a new aliveness. For some feelings are scary and they avoid deep contact with feeling experience. This not only limits their experience but interferes with connection to others.

Mindful examination of the two internal guidance systems behind our action can refine errant predictions and misguided reactions.

Relationships, when healthy, provide a connection. We share emotions with respect and support. This vulnerability is the putty from which trust is shaped, formed and hardened.

Achieving the most from the wisdom of emotions requires purposeful effort to integrate emotions into our larger concepts of self.

Mixed in with the beauty are some sorrows. When we are well-connected, occasionally, along with the joys are some tears.

emotions from the past interferring with present

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