Emotional Colors

What is your emotional health goal? Didn’t know you had one? That’s probably normal, only weirdos like me think about stuff like that ;) But even if you’ve never consciously thought about having a goal for your emotional health, I’m sure you’re functioning from an unconscious goal in the background of your life. And that is why it is good to get the awareness of these subconscious thoughts because even though you’re not aware of them, they are causing feelings that are driving your actions and creating your results. And some of those results are not what you want them to be. So let’s take a look.

If you’re like most people, your subconscious mental health goal is that you want to be happy. That sounds nice, right? Nothing wrong with that? Wrong! Cause think about it, if your goal is to be happy all the time, what happens when you don’t feel happy? Do you make it a problem to feel anything but happy? But what if something happens that you want to feel sad about? or disappointed? or mad? or frustrated?

What if it wasn’t a problem when you felt any emotion? What if there were not positive and negative emotions but all just feelings that were meant to be felt? Your amazing brain has thoughts that send a signal down to your body and creates feelings. These are meant to be felt. Message received. And then they go away. But when we don’t understand this, we resist emotions and then they intensify and layer and then start causing problems.

So if our goal isn’t to be happy all of the time, what is it? I think that we can embrace the full human experience by welcoming all emotional. The full range of human feelings is what shows us that we’re alive. Granted, some feel better in our bodies than others but we wouldn’t know that without the contrast. And truly, if you just relax into any emotion, no matter how terrible it feels, it soon will pass and you will see that our amazing bodies are well equipped to handle anything the brain can throw at it.

So try that this week. Try relaxing into your emotions, let them come up, feel them through. You can do it! No emotion is an emergency. It’s just a message from the brain that’s meant to be felt to be communicated.

Then, when you embrace all the feels, you will notice your life getting richer with all the colors. Your black and white experience of life will switch into technicolor as you sink into the depth that comes from all the shades of emotional color.