End Of Year Package🎅🎁 : Do this in 2023 to Practice Positive Mental Health
The day I started acknowledging my feelings/emotions was the day I saw real freedom.
Did the issue hurt my feelings? Yes. I am human. I hurt. Acknowledged. Now how do I get myself out of the feeling of hurt? Then I start working on it from there...
For someone who has seen depression a lot of times and has been at the very end of the tunnel several times, I find this method really helpful. Acknowledge how you feel. Give names to your feelings and find solutions to them. Cry it out if you have to. Scream if it is needed. Break something if it calls for it. Talk about it if there's someone to listen. Don't bottle it up.
You don't have to be strong all the time.
Especially to the men, please, toxic masculinity is toxic for a reason. It is harmful. Men have emotions. Men cry. Men get sad. Free those emotions and be free. (I will dedicate a whole new post to address toxic masculinity).
When utilized as a general tactic, emotional repression reaches an extremely dangerous level of toxicity. Emotions that are suppressed for some time can build up to the point where they become explosive at the most inopportune times, with potentially devastating results.
Nobody enjoys being in constant emotional discomfort, yet ignoring your feelings might actually make them worse. Hence, the need for emotional acceptance.
Emotional acceptance means that you practice allowing your feelings to be what they are without judging them or trying to change them.
It involves being aware of your emotions and accepting that these feelings exist without trying to suppress or push them away.
—Lindsay EK, Creswell JD.
Realizing and acknowledging your feelings in the present moment, accepting them for what they are while knowing they won't last and continuing to work toward freedom is all that acceptance entails.
It is extremely difficult to manage painful, strong, and often frightening feelings. However, acknowledging your emotions can actually help you regulate your emotions better, reduce mood swings, and improve your emotional equilibrium.
To start the healing process, you need to become more attuned to your emotions. People's manifestations of this process can vary widely.
Where do you go from here?
Make a decision and a strategy.
When we are not accustomed to experiencing our emotions, they can be overwhelming and uncomfortable. There are numerous alternatives for getting started.
You can work with a therapist, seek help from a friend, or join a group.
Connect with your body.
Begin with your body if you want to feel your emotions.
Emotions are physiological occurrences. They carry feelings that you can point to and describe. Begin to pay more attention to your body in subtle ways.
Begin to become more aware and name your emotions as you experience them.
Give in to it.
After pausing to take it in, giving it a name, and then allowing yourself to fully embrace it, you'll be well on your way to healing. The emotions we experience are neither good nor bad in and of themselves. These are merely subjective experiences.
Allowing yourself to feel what you're experiencing rather than trying to suppress it prevents the emotion from getting repressed.
Start acknowledging your emotions, stop repressing them, talk about them and find solutions to them to enjoy positive mental health.
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