WHY STRESS MANAGEMENT, WHEN YOU HANDLE YOUR EMOTIONS RIGHT !!
Recently I got a call from my friend asking for how to manage stress in general. I listened to her story and where I found that it is not the stress she should manage but to handle only the emotions. This situation made me to pen this article with you all.
How do we handle emotions? When we are not good enough to handle our emotions we eventually end up with stress. So stress is the consequence of unhealthy way of handling emotions. Hence we should understand that we are the one creating stress to ourselves.
I recently read a quote says “Pain is a natural process where Suffering is Self-created”. And it is always healthy to have a constant check on our inner well-being to understand whether we manage good emotions or create stress to ourselves. Because the moment we are entering into stressful situation, it clearly denotes that we are deviating from healthy way of living with positive emotions. And it is not the stress that we should manage but to inculcate healthy ways to handle emotions.
Emotions play a vital role in one’s life. There are different types of emotions that encounter one’s personality. What are all the emotions which bring stress to us is hatred, worry, shame, depression. We must know the difference between healthy and unhealthy emotions. For instance, Anger is a healthy emotion where Grudge, resentment, hatred are unhealthy emotions.)
- Anger is a healthy emotion whereas–Hatred, Resentment, Building Grudge are Unhealthy emotions
- Fear is Healthy but Worrying, Being anxious, nervous ends to Phobia
- Sadness and crying is healthy but Brooding over the past, Denying the facts and reality leads to delusions and also leads to Depression when sadness is not ventilated correctly and also leads to Loneliness where an individual tend to avoid social gathering.
- Guilt is a Good emotions as it helps to introspect your own mistakes but when it fails to introspection leads Shame which is Unhealthy and becomes the emotional Block for one’s Growth!
Handling emotions is actually an easy job as emotions are not foreign bodies. Emotions arise from within and so stress. When you are capable to handle emotions it assures happy life. Whatever an emotion that we experience in a day it should be channelized in a healthy way. Pent up and unreleased emotions takes the form of unhealthy emotions. Here, I am not asking you to release your emotions like anger, fear, sadness or guilt directly to a person or a situation but by channelizing it through writing journal before you go to bed. There are varieties of catharsis intervention we do in our wellbeing home to make a person to live to the fullest every moment.
Few Behavioural assignments to Resolve pent up emotions
→Release → Resolve the issue → Rejuvenate →Resolve with a person by visualizing
- Release by writing and burn it and take a deep breath for 5-10 mins.
- Physical movement by dancing, marching fast and once you feel enough take a deep breath and listen to relaxing Τmusic.
- Once you release all the issue do deep breathing practices / pranayama / meditation
- Resolve with that person or situation by thinking good things about the person /good things the situation contributed to grow emotionally, spiritually.
Channelize your pent up emotions in a healthy conscious way. Manage what you want and not what you don’t want as we want only healthy emotions and not stress!
