Embrace The Suck
How to Deal With Negative Emotions
Are you often faced with the question: how do I deal with negative emotions?
Ya, me too.
And do you want to know how to make those negative emotions go away?
I bet! Don’t we all?
But let me tell you a little secret:
This is just part of being human!
The reality is, we are all part of the same human experience, and that experience involves both negative and positive emotions. I know some of us (myself included) hope that one day we will have the job/money/time/body etc. we want and then we will always feel amazing and never experience negative emotions.
But let’s get real.
That is just not true. And deep down we all know that.
We are all living the human experience and honestly, it’s about 50/50 — We have negative and positive emotions about half the time.
Am I right?
What if we could just embrace that knowledge? What if we could just recognize that being human means feeling both negative and positive emotions? That having negative emotions do not mean something has gone wrong? That is doesn’t mean we have failed? Wouldn’t that make you feel lighter? Breathe a bit easier even?
