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Emotional Wellness
Emotional wellness involves understanding and accepting both positive and negative emotions, managing them without indulgence or blame, and recognizing that we have control over our thoughts and behaviors. It acknowledges the balance between good and bad emotions and emphasizes the importance of intentionally creating emotions and identifying the thoughts that influence them. By doing so, individuals can better navigate life's challenges and change their emotional responses over time.
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Emotional wellness involves understanding, accepting, and managing emotions while separating them from circumstances.
We have control over our thoughts and behaviors, though much of our emotional responses are influenced by brain design.
Understanding the nature of emotions includes acknowledging the balance of good and bad, and the impossibility of constant happiness.
Being emotionally well involves understanding emotions, creating feelings intentionally, and identifying thoughts that influence emotions.
Emotional wellness takes time, but can transform your thinking, feelings, and actions.
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- 1. Emotional Wellness How youremotions drive your thoughts and behaviors
- 2. What is emotionalwellness? Emotional wellness does NOT simply mean you are happy.
- 3. Emotional wellness means... ●You understand and feel your emotions. ● You accept the positive and negative and allow them to be there. ● You do not indulge in your negative emotions (self-pity, indulgence, etc.). ● You do not react to your negative emotions or blame them on anyone or anything. ● You are able to separate emotions from circumstances (others don’t determine how we feel). ● You are able to identify your thoughts that cause the emotions you are feeling. ● And you are able to handle life’s stresses, adapt to change, and cope with difficult times.
- 4. Let’s talk about control… Andhow little of it we actually have!
- 5. So what dowe have control over? We have control over our thoughts and behaviors.
- 6. Understanding our brains Our brainswere designed to seek pleasure, preserve energy, and avoid pain. Now… We need to do the exact opposite of what our brains were originally designed to do!
- 7. The problem withour current state of emotions
- 8. The world isnot meant to be happy and good all the time. There is good and bad. Positive and negative. Comfort and discomfort. Happy and sad. And there is a balance to it all.
- 9. In fact, ifyou tried to be happy all the time, that means you are happy when people die or bad things happen. It is not possible.
- 10. So, if youare going to be sad and scared sometimes any way, why not go out and get the things you want in life?
- 11. 3 steps tobeing “emotionally well” Understand and feel your emotions. Create emotion on purpose. Identify your thoughts that cause the emotions you are feeling.
- 12. Understand and feelyour emotions. Emotions won’t hurt you. Allow them to be there - you do not have to fix them or cover them up.
- 13. Create emotion onpurpose. You know that you are going to go out into the day and experience some kind of negative emotion. By creating emotion on purpose means you understand that you are the person who generates your emotions by what you think.
- 14. Identify your thoughtsthat cause the emotions you are feeling. Your thoughts cause your feelings. We do something because of how we think it will make us feel. We don’t do something because we are afraid of how it will make us feel. Your emotions drive why you do or don’t do anything.
- 15. This take time.But it has the power to change the way you think, feel, and act! Questions? Thoughts?