I mentioned in my last blog that it is important to be aware of our emotional state. For March’s blog I thought I would expound on that.
Most people are very unaware of their emotional state and just go through life day by day, until sometimes something significant happens in their life that assists them in becoming aware that they have been unaware. This awareness can lead to becoming more aware more often.
What do I mean by awareness? The Merriam-Webster Dictionary app defines it this way, “feeling, experiencing, or noticing something.” In the synonym definitions it says: “aware, cognizant, conscious, sensible, alive, awake means having knowledge of something. Being aware implies vigilance in observing or alertness in drawing inferences from what one experiences. Conscious implies that one is focusing one’s attention on something. Sensible implies direct or intuitive, perceiving especially of intangibles or of emotional states or qualities.”
Being aware of your emotional state is tuning into how you are feeling. Here is an example. You are driving home and someone cuts you off in traffic. You get upset. As you arrive home you have forgotten about the incident but are now a little on edge. You come home to a mess or someone in your family says something that normally wouldn’t bother you and you start to feel angry. You turn on the tv to relax but feel annoyed. The next day you wake up feeling overwhelmed about the day’s activities. As you go to work you find out someone didn’t do what you asked them to that sheds a bad light on you and your boss gets angry at you………. From this example of things that happen all the time you can see if you are not aware of your emotional state, and do something to change it you can spiral into patterns of behaviors that can keep you in a state of negativity for days, months or even years, leading to much heavier emotions and emotional patterns or attitudes that continue to run throughout your life.
When you are aware of and are assessing where you are emotionally from day to day it is easier to see patterns of behavior in your life and as I said before in my last blog, releasing these emotions quickly helps you to move in a more positive direction and changing old patterns is possible.