the pussy queen

yanique bell

yb

How to Deal with Emotions in a Healthy Way – The Magical Effects of Honoring Your Lower Emotions

April 11, 2019

woman in nature, how to deal with emotions in a healthy way

Not so fast! Before you scrap your “lower emotions” and just “choose to be happy,” take a moment to listen to what your emotions are trying to tell you. They may be the difference between just how long that happiness lasts, before you hit another low and get in yet another funk. In this post, you’ll learn how to deal with emotions in a healthy way:

how to deal with emotions in a healthy way

Why Honor and Receive Your Lower Emotions

I used to be a huge proponent of “happiness is a choice.” I still believe that you certainly must be open to feeling good, in order to experience deep joy and contentment, but I don’t think that a good, well, and abundant life is characterized by just how “happy” you are all the time, especially when that happiness is really forced and not founded upon true joy and presence. 

Being in allowance of happiness and all “higher emotions” requires an allowance of all emotions, period. That includes your “lower emotions,” as well. Think of your emotions like a great body of water. You can put a dam up to try to block what you perceive as “negative” emotions (i.e. anger, grief, anxiety, etc.), creating a small, manageable channel for the emotions you actually desire to come in (i.e. happiness, love, exuberance, etc.).

However, any kind of numbing out and blocking of your emotions, decreases the amount of happiness and positive emotions you can feel overall. If you only let so many lower emotions in, then you’ll only be letting in so many higher emotions as well.

Numbing out reduces your sensitivity to all emotions, including the positive ones.

Plus, what you resist persists. ALL emotions hold important information. They are keys to your health, growth, and transformation. When you begin to honor your lower emotions, acknowledging and processing them, you’ll be able to experience longer moments of sustained happiness and peace. 

The Effects of Unprocessed Emotions

AKA Why You Get into a Funk

woman thinking, how to deal with emotions in a healthy way

When you block unwanted emotions and shut them down before they’ve said their piece, they burrow deep under the surface and go looking for other ways to get your attention. 

Your buried, unprocessed emotions may reveal themselves in ailments, diseases, excess weight, and other manifestations in the physical body. They inform and sustain limiting beliefs and prevent you from manifesting and creating what you desire in life. They cause you to act in ways you don’t understand and won’t understand until you identify your emotional triggers, process, and release them. 

An emotional trigger is an emotional reaction to a person, comment, situation, event, or any other content/occurrence. 

Emotional Triggers and Your Path to Emotional Freedom

woman walking travel, how to deal with emotions in a healthy way

Emotional triggers are often sourced in childhood. Since we didn’t have the tools to understand pain, suffering, and complex emotions as children, they go unprocessed and often times unacknowledged. As a result, when something happens in adulthood that triggers that emotional pain, which we may not even be aware of, we get emotionally triggered. Getting triggered can put you in a funk, completely offset your day, and easily wreak havoc on your life, if you let your triggers go unchecked. 

In the Mastering Lower Emotion series, we’ll be exploring various lower emotions to better understand, release, and learn from them. 

Check out the full series here, complete with informative articles and weekly challenges. Get started with the first challenge today: Body Journaling for Health & Emotional Freedom

You’ll Also Love…

The Woman Gone Wild Podcast

Subtle Emotional Triggers – What You Need to Know

How to Use Body Journaling for Improved Health & Emotional Freedom

Spread the love

Thank you for your comment.

Sweet!

listen now

woman gone wild with yanique bell

Conversations on love, intimacy, and becoming

let's dive in

watch on youtube

leave a review on itunes

Breath Orgasm: 3 Ways to Climax Hands-Free

March 24, 2024

read now

Blog, Sexual Re-Education

Sensual woman, text overlay says "The secret to more intense orgasms"

How to Have More Intense Orgasms

Angergasms & Sacred Rage – Alchemizing the Pure Potential Power Stored in Your Anger – 113

Podcast

Cutout of Yanique Bell in a plume of smoke with a small fire. Text overlay reads, "Angergasms and Sacred Rage" - Woman Gone Wild Podcast Episode 113 (on how to process anger in a healthy way)

It’s one thing to intellectually know that you are loved and to think about loving yourself. It’s a whole other experience to actually feel that deep self-love. This episode of the Woman Gone Wild podcast is in honor of Black History Month 🖤 Tune in now to explore love as a driving force in our […]

Loving Yourself Free – 112

ooo, tell me more

Terms of use   |

Privacy policy   |

© 2024 Live love be evergreen llc | Intimacy & empowerment coaching by Yanique bell

Disclaimers

Terms of use 

Privacy policy