We spend so much energy trying to push away what we’re feeling sometimes, but not every emotion can or should be ignored.
Sit with it. Feel it. Understand it.
Your emotions are part of you, but they don’t control you. We get to decide how we want to be impacted by how we feel in a moment.
The pause and a moment of silence to understand why we are feeling something gives us the opportunity to better understand what triggered the emotion and allows us options on how to manage them.
Often we just react to how we feel, that is how we are wired. When we can learn to pause and sit in silence for just a moment to try and understand why we feel a certain way, we can better surf the wave of emotion instead of crashing and drowning.
Of course, this is easier said than done, but every effort to manage them leads to a good habit that gives you control over them. If we can’t learn to understand and control our emotions, we leave it to the world at large and the world is not always so kind.