Emotional Well-Being

CURIOUS SELF: "I feel just fine and I don't think anything is wrong with me. So, Why is it important to on-goingly work on my Emotional Well-being? How to improve my Emotional Well-being? Are there any benefits to this and how to know if I am making progress?" 

Our emotional life comprises of our feelings, experiences, relationships, friendships, family, community, sense of belongingess, ability to create intimate relationships, emotional stability, passion in life, ability to influence people, ability to relate to different groups of people, ability to let go of negative feelings, ability to trust ourselves, feel confident, ability to let go of past Love Relationships, ability to surrender to the uncertain future, ability to forgive those who hurt our feelings, setting expectations with others, maintaining healthy boundaries with others, focusing on being present to our feelings, controlling our emotions, expressing our feelings authentically and being aware of our thoughts and feelings in the present moment. Being able to gently flow with our feelings and emotions, holding on to all our good feelings and letting go of any negative feelings is critical to our Emotional Well-being. It is always a joy to be around someone who is glowing and full of energy. Achieving Emotional Well-being allows us to live our lives fulfillingly. 

Before we start to create our plan on how to work on our Emotional Well-being, it is very critical to know what Emotional Well-being is NOT. Understanding this is very important because if we are misinformed or have misconceptions then it becomes tough to take effective actions. Emotional Well-being is not feeling good all the time, it is not being safe and avoid taking risks, it is not being quite and avoiding being assertive, it is not avoiding confrontation to maintain peace, it is not being passive when someone is abusing us or others, it is not being in a relationship that has no future just for the fear of being alone, it is not allowing someone to control us, it is not taking on more responsibility than we can handle, it is not being a YES person with an inability to set healthy boundaries, it is not having a false sense of happiness by ignoring others who need our support, it is not being impulsive and thinking it is being spontaneous, it is not achieving success or our goals without understanding the bigger picutre and it is not fulfilling our need for pleasure. 

Now let us understand why working on our Emotional Well-being is critical for us to living a fulfilling life. No matter how much success and wealth we have, no matter how much wisdom and knowledge we gain, no matter how healthy we are, we need to learn to connect with other human beings on a deep emotional level to feel and understand them better. Also, we need to learn to be in tune with our own feelings and emotions and to be able to control them and handle them. Suppressing feelings will only cause trouble in the future, we have to learn how to release negative feelings and harness its energy to propel us forwards, we have to learn now to align our thoughts and feelings with our goals and desires and focus on the best possible outcome without the emotional attachment, we have to learn how to feel positive and enthusiastic in order to visualize our dreams and manifest our desires, we have to learn how to lower our stress levels and spread positive happy energy to everyone we meet, we have to learn how to be emotionally stable in the most chaotic situation. Hence, working on our Emotional Well-being is very important towards living our lives fulfillingly.

Just like we created our list of Quit items for our Spiritual Well-being, we will list what are the negative things we must eliminate from our lives to ensure our Emotional Well-being and how to go about removing these things permanently from our lives. There are several emotional healing and strengthening processes that we have at our disposal to learn and practice for enhancing our Emotional Well-being.

We expand our daily practice with Top 3 Emotional Milestones along with Top 3 Spiritual Milestones and increase our practice time from 30 min to 1 hour.

Let’s pick our Top 3 Emotional Well-being items:
(1) 10 min Start Letting Go of the Past
(2) 10 min Quit Resentment
(3) 10 min Start Expressing Gratitude

There are more to choose from as we make progress:
(4) 10 min Quit Complaining
(5) 10 min Quit Blaming Others
(6) 10 min Quit Gossiping
(7) 10 min Quit Being Needy
(8) 10 min Start Expressing Happiness
(9) 10 min Start Expressing Intimacy
(10) 10 min Start Expressing Compassion

We may start to wonder how to start letting go of the past or how to stop resenting someone we dislike. The key is to use the 10 min to figure out what works for us and continue to apply our intuitive ideas. For some of us forgiveness is easy and for some of us it is difficult, either way we have to learn to forgive and move on. For some of us making new friends is easy and for some of us it is difficult, either way we have to learn to make new friends to keep our emotions balanced. For some of us letting go of the past is easy and for some of us it is difficult, either way we have to quit holding on to our old memories in order to live fully in the present moment.

HIGHER SELF: "Now it is clear why working on our Emotional Well-being is so important and necessary. Meditation helps with clearing the mind and releasing suppressed emotions. Along with meditation we have to focus on different Emotional Milestones to improve our Emotional Well-being by dedicating 30 min daily towards it and continuously learning different processes and techniques to handle emotions and creating a life of abundance and fulfillment. We Love Meditation."

We Love Meditation.