Let your emotions rain

Emotions can make or break us. They play a huge part of our daily life. Emotions can directly, indirectly affect our feelings, thoughts, behavior and decisions.Avoiding or burying the emotions is not a healthy practice and can lead to Emotion Supression Or Emotional Repression.

Suppressed emotions are feelings that we knowingly avoid. It happens when you actively push uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, or memories out of your consciousness. Sometimes this leads to numbing yourself with scrolling on your phone, watching TV, or doing any other activity so you don’t have to feel your emotions.

Repressed emotions are often an outcome of childhood experiences. Hence, it happens mostly at an unconscious level. Learning that it is possibly much safer to avoid distressing and painful emotions in childhood leads to burying strong emotions even as an adult without even realising it. Mostly, these are emotions that we consider bad or believe that other people might judge after revealing.

Dealing with emotions requires self-awareness. We should know how our emotions function, how we can manage them, how each emotion plays a different role and shapes our lives.

Here are 4 steps that can help you to stop burying your emotions.
1) Identify: Name the emotion you feel.
2) Accept: Acceptance and acknowledgement of these emotions and their existence is the key step to helping you resolve them.
3) Share: Share what you are experiencing. When you let your friends and family know how you feel, it will provide relief to a great deal. If sharing feelings with people seems like a bit too much, then try writing about how you feel. It will let you identify your own emotional experiences.
4) Seek professional help: Even if after trying the above-mentioned solutions, you still feel overwhelmed as the result of emotional repression, seek for a mental health professional. This will help you to dig buried discomforting emotions and address them.
5) Managing Emotions: Managing emotions means developing the skills to deal with your emotions before they become overwhelming and obstruct you from living a healthy life.