How to Navigate our Feelings and Emotional Balance
Emotions are powerful, and understanding how to navigate our feelings is one of the most useful things we can learn. Their influence over us is impressive, and when we recognize their driving power, we can leverage that knowledge to make the changes we want in ourselves and our lives.
Thoughts do create feelings, but that doesn’t mean we want to feel good 100% of the time. It doesn’t indicate we only want to think happy, positive thoughts.
Our brain desperately wants to create a 50/50 experience where we feel good 50% of the time, and 50% of the time, we experience something negative. It does this by modifying, calculating, and adapting without any cues from you.
Initially, this 50/50 experience can feel like a bit of a bummer, but it is actually a relief when you start looking at life this way. We live in a society where we have false pleasure and various ways to escape negative emotions. We have this idea that we are entitled to feel good all the time.
When we remember that 50% of the time, we’ll feel something negative, then we can stop trying to escape or being afraid of our emotions. Feeling bad doesn’t mean your life isn’t good.
