The Importance of Understanding Your Emotions

"It looks like the emotion is the problem, it's not. It's the acting out of the emotion," he says. "Your thoughts can influence, but they don't come first." If you tell yourself not to feel things, your psyche turns up the volume and makes a bad feeling worse; if you still try to suppress it, you act it out. So, you do the very thing you didn't want to do. The opposite of positive is what you really ask me: negative feelings have some piece of information for us'

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