Emotional Wellness

What is “Emotional Wellness”?

Emotional Wellness is emotional self-awareness and acceptance of one’s emotional reactions.
- Self-awareness is understanding yourself and your environment so that your emotional reactions are appropriate for the situation. It’s normal to feel agitated by a colleague’s annoying knuckle-popping habit, but if your reaction is to do harm to your colleague, this may be an indication that you are not in control.
Acceptance is the art of allowing yourself to feel emotions without the guilt and shame often associated with them.
- Often, people repress their emotions in front of their peers. They do not want to seem weak or unidentifiable.
Emotional Wellness is having the ability to not let emotions control you. This means to bounce back when emotions turn negative and effectively cope with stress.
- To bounce back from negative emotions, like sadness, grief, fear does not mean they do not bother you, but instead that you are emotionally resilient. These type of people are active participants in their own recovery. They are thinking positively and attempting to help themselves heal and improve.
- Coping with stress effectively can be a challenge for many, but it can also be a learned skill. Taking preventive steps is key. Steps such as meditation, exercise, turning to friends and family for support, learning effective problem-solving skills, and journaling are all effective stress management strategies.
Emotional Wellness leads to making positive choices and maintaining positive relationships.
- Positive choices are seen when a person is acting in accordance with their wellbeing, making choices that make their wellbeing a priority or just choosing to experience optimism instead of pessimism.
Positive Relationships show an emotionally well and balanced individual. They understand that in order to have a lasting relationship it takes more than having good friends and family, it means cultivating mutual care and understanding with others, creating a support network, and avoiding those that want to drag them down to the low levels where negativity rules. Remember: A true buddy will build you up — not knock you down!
It is normal for us to experience stress and struggle. These things are inevitable, but the key is being mindful of how our circumstances, lifestyle, and beliefs may be affecting our emotions, and developing a strategy to deal with those factors. Developing such a strategy will be helpful, because emotional wellness is an achievable goal and something to strive for.
If you find yourself gripped with fear in specific situations, when in fact there is little or no real danger, this can be the result of too much anxiety and stress, or it may be indicative of a phobia, or even PTSD. In these cases, hypnotherapy can help to address these problems and improve your sense of emotional wellbeing. Professional hypnotherapy can also help with gaining confidence and self-esteem, and learning to relax so that you can release fear, anger and worry, and to regain a balanced emotional life. The goal of such treatment is to help you monitor and deal with your emotions, and to help you feel calmer and more stable, and even to sleep better and feel better physically.

What is “Emotional Wellness”?

Emotional Wellness is emotional self-awareness and acceptance of one’s emotional reactions.

Acceptance is the art of allowing yourself to feel emotions without the guilt and shame often associated with them.

Often, people repress their emotions in front of their peers. They do not want to seem weak or unidentifiable.

Emotional Wellness is having the ability to not let emotions control you. This means to bounce back when emotions turn negative and effectively cope with stress.

To bounce back from negative emotions, like sadness, grief, fear does not mean they do not bother you, but instead that you are emotionally resilient. These type of people are active participants in their own recovery. They are thinking positively and attempting to help themselves heal and improve.

Emotional Wellness leads to making positive choices and maintaining positive relationships.

Positive choices are seen when a person is acting in accordance with their wellbeing, making choices that make their wellbeing a priority or just choosing to experience optimism instead of pessimism.