5 actions necessary to eliminate emotional garbage

To be happy, people need emotional balance. Obviously we all understand that our daily lives will not be completely free of certain difficulties, certain problems. But when the balance is unbalanced, when uncertainty and fear outweigh tranquility, the problem appears.

One day, without really knowing how, we woke up with the feeling that we couldn’t take it anymore. That there is a weight that oppresses us and doesn’t let us breathe. Problems with our partner, work, an issue that we don’t know how to deal with and that tests us… Suddenly, life becomes complex and we find ourselves locked in a labyrinth with no exit. surrounded by this “emotional garbage.” But… how can we get rid of it then?

1. Be careful with expectations

We cannot deny it. Sometimes people set very high expectations for themselves in the short term. We expect a lot from ourselves and even from the people around us. We want to advance at work, meet that goal, have certain people be with us on every project… at every moment.

This is usually the mistake that many people make and that, without us realizing it, ends up causing high frustration, and even certain depressions. The ideal? Manage your goals day by day, paying attention to the now, to what we are, to what we have, to what can make us happy today.

2. How about we think positively?

Already. You’ve been told this many times. And even daily you see those images on Facebook that tell you about the need to be positive through smiling faces. But do you really apply it to your life? It may sound like a slogan, but we assure you that no one makes money by encouraging you to leave your negative thoughts aside. To change the chip.

Being positive means dressing with a new attitude, it means making a daily effort and even cognitive restructuring. Don’t see limitations, look at the possibilities. Don’t see crises, sense opportunities improvement and personal efforts. Being positive is not just putting a smile on your face, it means internalizing energy and hope.

3. Will with action

Want? Can! It is of no use to us to desire something, to want to initiate an improvement or a change if we do not put some of our will into it. It should be said first of all that before will and action, there is recognition. Do you already know what is damaging to your life? Do you know where that emotional “garbage” comes from, do you know what causes it? So, Don’t hesitate… act.

4. We accept, but we do not forget

We accept what happened. We accept the loss, the mistake, the change or the responsibility… and then we move on from it. Accepting and overcoming what happened is essential and necessary, But be careful… those who hope to simply “forget” what happened are making a mistake.

People do not have the same power as computers to send to the “recycle bin” what has hurt us or what we no longer want. That is to say, Emotional garbage is not forgotten, but overcome. And even more, not forgetting allows us to learn from and acquire life experience. It is the best faculty of the human being, without a doubt.

5. Get out of your comfort zone

The comfort zone is that area in which we feel safe, where we have a certain control of everything that surrounds us. But sometimes, In order to improve our lives, we need to take a step out of that zone.to start new projects with which to come out stronger.

Do not hesitate, when you start to explore what lies beyond this limit in which you find yourself now… you will enter an indispensable part for the human being known as the “learning zone”.

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