Understanding your emotions

Have you ever asked yourself what emotions are?

Emotions are ‘simply’ energetic vibrations in our bodies, and are caused not by what is happening in the world around us, i.e. by external circumstances (job, family life, relationships), but by our own thoughts about what is happening around us.

It is you who through your thoughts and emotions that creates your experience of the world, not the other way around.

As human beings, we experience different emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, stress, resentment, excitement, joy, satisfaction, confusion…

At some point, we were unfortunately taught that feeling emotions, especially the most challenging ones, is not good, because it makes us fragile and vulnerable.

But I believe that knowing and managing our emotions makes our lives much better, lighter, and less painful.

Why emotions are important

You may have learnt that emotions are only important for some people, i.e. those who are particularly sensitive, but in fact all human beings feel emotions.

Emotions are important in our lives for four reasons.

1. Everything we do (or don’t do) happens because we link it to the emotion that we want to experience.