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BY: T. Franklin Murphy | August 2020

Anxiety, Depression and Inaction. Self-perpetuating diseases. A Flourishing Life Society Article Link

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

Anticipatory Joy. A Flourishing Life Society article link

Guilt may push for change or leave us debilitated and paralyzed. Loving kindness is the healthy response to debilitating guilt.

Flourishing Life Society article link banner: Brooding

Internal Link: Cause of Sorrows

FLS link-- Emotional Regulation: Emotions energize and push for action. Healthy regulation capitalizes on the richness of emotion and directs the energy towards life objectives.

A Flourishing Life Society article link. Emotionally Connected. Attuning to a Partner's Feelings

Flourishing Life Society article Link: Emotional Communication

Flourishing Life Society Link. Article: Three Emotional Regulation Techniques

Experiencing Fear. Do We Stay and Fight? or Turn and Run? A Flourishing Life Society article link

Feeling: The Experience of Living. A Flourishing Life Society article link

Emotions can be powerful--so powerful we may avoid them and the people expressing them. Empathy is gained through openness to experience, one on one contact with the feeling experience of others.

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.

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.

A flourishing Life Society article link. Emotional Overload

Feeling Discomfort. A Flourishing Life Society article image link

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.

FLS Link. Fredrickson's Broaden and Build: Positive emotions promote growth by encouraging approach and observation.

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.

Emotions and Logic. A Flourishing Life Society article link

Flourishing Life Society Link: Emotional Intelligence

We need a sense of security to thrive. If we are continually frightened, we will pull into ourselves and limit opportunity.

Emotional Response. Emotions and Goal Fulfillment. A Flourishing Life Society article image link

Flourishing Life Society Link. Article: Three Emotional Regulation Techniques

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.

Emotional Patterns. When Emotional Reactions Hurt. A Flourishing Life Society article link

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.

FLS link: Emotional Intimacy | Creating Space for sharing. A psychological battle of opposing needs requires purposeful effort to meet both safety and belonging needs.

Pesky Emotional Outbursts. When Emotions Take Over. A Flourishing Life Society article link

Flourishing Life Society Link. Emotional Guidance System.

Frightening Encounters with Emotions. A Compassionate Reaction to Other's Emotions. A Flourishing Life Society article link

Happy All the Time. Experiencing a Whole Spectrum of Emotion. A Flourishing Life Society article link

We must manage worry to push action without burdening with overwhelm. Concern for the future is important but easily can become all consuming.

Putting on My Happy Shirt. Living a Joyful Life. A Flourishing Life Society article link

Uncovering Hidden Beliefs. Albert Ellis's ABC model. A Flourishing Life Society image link

FLS Link: How to Calm Emotions. Emotional Triggers.

Holiday Depression. A Flourishing Life Society article link

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

A Flourishing Life Society link. Healthy Skills

We worry. Thinking about the future is an adaptive response to complex problems; we prepare and we avoid. But too much worry interferes with constructive action. We even worry about our worrying.

Giving meaning to feelings with subjective interpretations

The instant attachment, finding a soul mate, sounds like a fairy tale; but often is laced with hidden problems. Take it slow.

FLS internal Link. Negativity: The natural feeling responses to experience give both wisdom and limiting bias. As cognitive creatures, we need to examine what we are feeling, how we interpret that feeling, and determine the utility of our natural inclinations.

FLS Link. Regret: Five Steps for Dealing with Regret

A Flourishing Life Society article link. Moods

Mindfulness: Space for Unpleasant Emotions. A Flourishing Life Society article link

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

Memories and Emotions. How Memories Impact Wellness. A Flourishing Life Society article link

Link: We all feel pain. Whether physical injury or emotional stress, the pain hurts. It's all in your head advice serves no purpose when we are hurting. Mindfulness helps.

FLS Link: The Right to Happiness. Living with Joy

Mental Fatigue and Emotional Responses A Flourishing Life Society article link

Past, Present, and Emotion. A Flourishing Life Society article link

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.

We get down, pulled into the darkness of helplessness. We can assist recovery through action, even though action is the last thing on our mind. Here is ten things you can do.

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

A Flourishing Life Society article link. Shared Emotions

Stressed Out. A Flourishing Life Society article link

FLS Link. Sinful Desires

Chasing a better life, we sometimes neglect the very things that give us the life we seek.

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

Moods interfere with interpretation of life. Stepping back with understanding helps to modify these stinkers.

Unrecognized Emotions. A Flourishing Life Society article link

Taking advantage of the fleeting moments of motivation to implement long-term change.

Theory of Emotion. A Flourishing Life Society article link

We move through stages of behavior, thought and emotion. Each phase impacting the others. We work to change by modifying any (and sometimes all) of the stages.

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