Why value and understand our emotions?

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It is important that we learn about the relevance of the power of being able to correctly manage our emotions.

Why do we get emotional?

We get emotional because we as human beings are biologically designed so that whatever happens in our environment has an immediate impact on our senses and in this way we can have responses or stimuli to what is manifested from our external environment.

Emotions have the particularity that they are accompanied by cognitive processes that make us act consciously in these emotional processes. If we think about the fact that emotions are the product of a set of cognitive processes, it is because we practically get emotional when we think, when we have beliefs or even when we make judgments and evaluations.

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What is our perception of emotions, good or bad?

I believe that most of us associate emotions to positive and negative aspects regarding the eventualities that we may have in our life, however I can tell you that this is an erroneous valuation that we have had of emotions.

One way to understand why we misvalue our emotions, for example when we show a resistance to some emotions is because we almost always have some pre-established ideas about ourselves, that besides the fact that these ideas do not help us much to have a good management of our emotions, we do not take into account and analyze that many of these ideas are idealized and by no means belong to the real world we face in the day to day.

Conclusion

In the case of emotions I have explained the importance of a good management and understanding in a favorable context for our own personal welfare and development in society, that is why it is important that each of us manage to work positively on certain prejudices we have about some emotions, that is, we should not close ourselves to the idea that everything we feel and the way we face it should lead us to avoid such emotions, really if we learn to face emotions we will surely learn to make better use of them.

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Why value and understand our emotions? | Ecency