Seeking Emotional Normalcy
Summary
- We naturally focus on negative emotions for survival reasons.
- There’s a paradox from being too negative to toxic positivity.
- We tend to focus more on another person’s negative emotions.
- How much time do we spend paying to attention to our negative experiences?
- When we focus on an emotion, we can tend to make that emotion bigger, the negative ones then feel worse than the original emotion.
- Normalise having the range of all emotions, feeling each at 100%.
- With positive emotions we tend to minimise them and not allowing that experience.
- Coming from a place of curiosity for all emotions can help guide children to understanding their full range.
- There’s no hierarchy of emotions.
Tara Rama 