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Understanding your emotions

By: Retha Knoetze

Why is it that you feel good when you wake up only to find that you are extremely frustrated within an hour of time? There is a very logical answer to us. We are born with specific emotional currents and the working and moving of these currents determine the moods fluctuations in our functioning. The currents in our bodies are balancing our closeness versus separateness, commitment versus containment and safety versus risks.

Every person needs to experience closeness as you want to “belong” somewhere versus “alone time” to focus on personal options and feelings. Following that, one needs to be committed to yourself, some processes and at times due to specific circumstance one may be isolated without no choice. Thereafter one needs security on emotional, financial and spiritual level versus the risks all of us takes at some times in our lives.

With this in mind it is therefore absolutely normal to experience emotional fluctuations during the day regarding different emotions. The main emotional drivers to these currents are love and grief, joy and anger, trust and fear.

Emotional balance is not to never become angry, or cry or fear but rather to understand what is happening at a specific point in time. The most important to remember is that whatever is experienced needs to be expressed in an understandable and acceptable way.

The understanding of emotions within you needs you to understand that you are allow to express how you feel. This is the most difficult thing to do in life as we are taught not to express our feelings as “cowboys don’t cry” or “it is not so bad, forget about it and carry on” and many more.

In order to understand others you first need to understand yourself and what is happening within you during a specific event. Once you are able to manage it you will be able to understand others and have sympathy with others expressing their feelings and emotions.

Emotional balance is a lifestyle change and one needs to apply specific “techniques” mastering it.

ABOUT the author:
After practising as social worker for various private organizations and later for the Department of Health and Welfare in South Africa, she furthered her studies in counselling and obtained a PhD in counselling at the Common Wealth Open University in Pretoria where she, at present, hold the position of Senior Lecturer in Counselling and relative modalities.

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