Educate in emotions

Perhaps we are not aware of everything that our emotions illuminate and shadow throughout our lives. Nobody told us how to handle them, how to change them or learn them.

It seems as if we forget about them for the simple fact that they are not seen. But aren’t they fundamental in our daily lives?

Being aware of our emotions and taking responsibility for them is essential for our mental well-being.

“We were taught as children how a body is formed, its organs, its bones, its functions, its places, but we never knew what the soul was made of”

-Mario Benedetti-

Why are emotions so important?

The emotions They determine our relationship with the world. Our mental health and personal well-being influence each other, depending largely on how we relate to the world, as well as the emotions that are generated.

At birth we do not have developed thinking or language, we cannot even plan what we do, however, our emotions allow us to communicate and identify what is good and bad for us.

Through crying, smiling or rudimentary behaviors we relate to the world and other human beings. Thus we can affirm that Our emotions shape our physical, mental, emotional and social landscape.

Besides, Emotions also function as indicators of our interior. Therefore, advice when we feel an emotion is to ask ourselves: what is this emotion for?

Why is it important to educate about emotions?

Emotions provide us with information about our relationship with the environment. We experience joy or satisfaction when things are going well for us, and sadness or hopelessness when the opposite happens, such as experiencing losses or threats.

Every time we experience an emotion, we can create thoughts consistent with it, also intervening in our nervous system as the body’s preparer for the best response.

Our emotions can be our greatest strength or our worst weakness. It all depends on how we handle them.

The emotions they are like a alarm system that is activated when we detect any change in the situation around us; They are adaptive resources that human beings present, and that give priority to the most relevant information for each one, thus activating different processes that will allow us to provide a response.

In childhood, experiencing positive emotions frequently favors the possible development of an optimistic, confident and extroverted personality, while the opposite happens with the experience of negative emotions.

So Adequate emotional education will allow you to acquire skills for managing emotional states, reduce negative emotions and largely increase positive emotions.

In this sense, we can mention, for example, knowing how to assertively resolve conflicts, accept short-term frustration in exchange for a long-term reward, and manage our moods to motivate ourselves.