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Accepting negative emotions can help your mental health.

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Accepting negative emotions can help your mental health.

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https://www.todayonline.com/world/how-accepting-negative-emotions-can-help-your-mental-health-2178841#:~:text=NEW%20YORK%20%E2%80%94%20In%20a%20study,a%20positive%20or%20neutral%20light.

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NEW YORK - In a study published recently in the journal "Emotion", researchers found people who habitually judge negative feelings as bad or inappropriate have more anxiety and depression symptoms and feel less satisfied with their lives than people who perceive their negative emotions in a positive or neutral light.

The findings add to research that indicates people fare better when they accept their unpleasant emotions as appropriate and healthy, rather than try to suppress them.

WHY JUDGING YOUR FEELINGS CAN BACKFIRE

When we perceive our emotions as bad, we pile more bad feelings onto our existing ones, which makes us feel worse, said Dr Emily Willroth, a psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis and a co-author of the study.

It's likely to increase the intensity of our negative feelings and the amount of time we suffer from them. Instead of having a feeling pass after a few minutes, you might ruminate on it for hours.

Research has linked emotional suppression with an increased risk for mental health problems. "What one resists, persists," said Dr Amanda Shallcross, a naturopathic physician who studies emotion regulation at the Cleveland Clinic.

When you avoid your emotions, "you're bound to experience longer-term negative mental and physical health," she said.

HOW TO MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR FEELINGS

Remember that unpleasant feelings are part of being human. Negative feelings can even serve a purpose, Dr Willroth said.

"Anxiety can help you to face a potential threat, anger can help you stand up for yourself, and sadness can signal to other people that you need their social support."

When you experience a bad feeling, you don't have to love the feeling - just try to feel neutral about it. The new study found that people who reacted neutrally were just as psychologically healthy as those who reacted more positively.

Practice and experience may also make emotional acceptance easier. Emotional well-being increases with age, and Dr Shallcross's research has found that this could partially stem from the fact that people are generally better at accepting their emotions as they get older.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

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NEW YORK - In a study published recently in the journal "Emotion", researchers found people who habitually judge negative feelings as bad or inappropriate have more anxiety and depression symptoms and feel less satisfied with their lives than people who perceive their negative emotions in a positive or neut

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1. Emotions changes our perspective and the way we view things/situations/actions.
For example:
Sadness: Everything is depressing.
Anger: Everything irritates me
Fear: Everything scares me. (Antipication)
E.g. Job Intervew

2. Empathy: Able to understand others and relate.
Emotional support: good emotional support where one can lean on a friend who can lend a listening ear)
Self-expression: Able to express oneself to friends (Reduces misunderstandings)
Ranting to friends/social support
Journaling / Burn book / Death note: Express emotions privately.
Physical activities like running (Reduces adrenaline, and clears negative thoughts, and focused on running. Alternatively, the emotion con also be used to motivate/ push oneself.)
Stress-eat (kinda unhealthy)
Cursing in an open space (with no-one around) like shouting yelling into the air.

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1) How do emotions affect our thoughts:

Judgement & decision making - when you are looking at something in a more positive/stable way, you will tend to think more logically, when it is on the negative side, you tend to take more risks and ignore the consequence.
Problem solving skills - when you have negative motions, you tend to not see all the possible ways that you could tackle problem, but if you are looking at it in a positive way, you will tend to see more possible solutions to the problem.

2) How do emotion strengthen our interpersonal relation:

Empathetic - you will tend to be more understanding towards others and as such you will be to connect better with them.
Ways of expression -  When you are more positive, you tend to express your feeling towards others in a better way as compared to when you are looking at it in a negative way.

3) How can we get rid of negative emotions:

Eq - if you have a higher eq, you will be able to filter you emotion better and as such be more logical when handling it.
Outputs/engaging in the 5 senses - yoga, walking, listening to music, seeking professional  help.

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1) emotions may affect our thoughts and behavior like aggression and violence, so emotions are like what our body is thinking to make decisions based on our emotions. Negative emotions (anger, sadness, stress) will make us overthink and positive emotions (happy, joyful, excited) will make us hyperactive and talkative. Emotions can either enchance or hinder our rational thingking abilities

Example : depends on the individuals, when they feel scared can produce “fight or flight” responsive feelings.

2)
-we are able to control our emotions
- emotions help establish empathy and understanding between individuals.

Example : able to communicate with others, listening ear and able to help others.

3)
- going for long walk
- social support
- do something that we like and make us happy
- to improve ourself (learning from mistakes. Example if we get a low grade that is below our expectations we tend to feel disappointed so to get rid of that feeling we can learn from our mistakes and improve from it. Think from the positive side that not everything is perfect and that we tried our best)

- figure out our body and emotions whenever something bad happened.
Example : we can take time to meditate to think of the situation and figure out what to do instead of raging out

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1)sometimes our emotions take over any rational thought process/decision making process.

Depending on your emotions i.e negative or positive feelings.

It affects our motivation towards certain goals that we have based on the emotions we are feeling.

2)Helps us develop empathy and emotional understanding towards the other, therefore strengthening connections on an interpersonal level

Emotional intelligence, helps us to read situations and act accordingly.

3)Identify the negative emotions, and seek solutions to solve them.

Seek professional help, i.e therapy, call helplines.

Learn to understand why you are feeling those negative emotions, get to the root of those feelings, from there you can better understand yourself too.

Self affirmation,