Respecting Your Emotions Guide

There's a lot of talk about self respect and it starts with respecting your emotions. Your feminine energy depends on how well you navigate and respect emotions. Before you even start expressing them. Emotions are the key to connecting with yourself and others. Distance your ego from emotions, that is where emotions blur understanding.

Emotions play a part into every thing we love and hate about ourselves. While not in direct control, there's so much value in being emotional aware. I'm always talking about fondness for yourself. When you self soothe, and you understand that emotions are just trying to protect you. Then is when you start the venture of a deeper value and understanding of self.

Why is Being Emotional a Bad Thing?

For the longest time, I was convinced. Who doesn't want to be the cool girl. I cry a lot over little and big things. I wasn't sure for a while how to come to terms. Expressing emotions is cathartic, it makes us human. So, why is the world convinced that being emotional is a bad thing. Emotions are good. Even the ones that don't feel good. They try to protect us. Emotions guard the heart. The separation comes from emotions feeding the ego too much. That should be the topic of discussion in terms of being emotional.

Being Emotional

Being emotional as woman carries weight with it. We are powerful because of our expression. Not in spite of it. It's an extra toll to take on yourself when emotions are already in flux. Emotions being framed as something not to have is a travesty because feeling emotions fully is inherently is joy. Emotions balance as you understand them.

What is described as emotional is in reference to being expressive. Wearing emotions on the sleeve isn't for everyone. It's a potent expression and it makes room for self reflection in anyone. Even unintentional. And, with having no way to describe what it brings out in them. They say you're being emotional.

Emotional Vulnerability

Being emotional takes a degree of being vulnerable. So, the only flip side being, as someone emotional. Is that we receive emotions from others just as, if not more, intensely as our own. Remember that these emotions aren't yours to bare. Release them because holding onto them is not a sacred duty. You can be empathetic without draining your emotional resources. Also be wary of emotional vampires that prey on how you interpret and feel emotions. There is no guilt to carry for expression yourself authentically.

Emotional duration

Different emotions will last different amounts of time naturally. There's ways to adjust and soothe to make them more bearable. But, more likely than not, they will run their course. I used to make the mistake of focusing my will on my emotions. This is where emotions feed the ego. Of course, I wanted to feel good emotions longer and other emotions shorter. I completely missed the root of the actual situation. No emotions are better or worse than others. They all guard me and bring something to my attention. Emotions are more often than not, just misunderstood.

Emotional durations can shift though. Your mindset heavily influences which emotions linger. Where you keep the focus is where the brain trains itself to focus on. This is why internal dialogue is so integral. The brain will point to creating more situations for emotions if it feels that's what is expected. Do your best as often as possible to take away any expectations for emotions. They fall in the middle. Not completely understandable nor a complete mystery.

Making Space for Expressing Emotions

You create space for balanced emotional expression when you respect them all in equal terms. The value of emotions is that they protect different aspects of what makes you, you. The ego will try to tell you that control over emotions is true mastery. There is no such thing. Emotions aren't meant to mastered. Only understood. Step away when you need to. Self soothing can be mastered. Because you deserve to be gentle with yourself despite what you may be feeling.

How to Feel Emotions Fully

Wear your emotions on your sleeve. Let emotions play their piece. Feeling fully is one of the most restorative things to do for yourself. Those moments where you feel every part of your body at complete overwhelm will pass. Don't leave the cup half empty. Once the emotion is felt fully. And, more importantly forgiven, you get to feel that much lighter.

Benefits of Being Emotional

I've found so many benefits from fully everything fully. For me, naturally, it manifests as tears. Happy and sad, it's an expression of feeling fully. Release the guilt and shame that comes with tears, please. Doing yourself this kind of disservice will create an emotional bottle neck. Without proper expression, emotions tend to wash into critical thinking. Emotional thinking is what clouds intuition. Your intuition is not your emotions speaking. It's your presence outside of active awareness.

How Being Emotions Effects Your Body

That feeling you get of overwhelm in the body is the tension from no where else to go. Your body has no idea what to do with your emotions. This is where self soothe techniques come in. Get to know what helps you flow through emotions. Whether that be cuddling a childhood stuffed animal. Or doing your makeup. The more different ways you have to self soothe. The smoother transition from intense emotions.

One of the most beautiful parts of life, is learning how to value each moment. Our emotions is exactly what adds the special magic. The magic wand that makes life feel more serendipitous is befriending emotions. Slowly unpacking the backed up emotions is an exhausting and freeing experience. Most of the time, the best thing you could for yourself is check in with yourself emotionally as often as possible.

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