Most people live reactively to their emotions.
They go about their day, have their interactions, make their choices, and then feel the feelings consequentially arise while trying to maintain the scheduled busyness of their day.
Which leads to bottling, pressurizing, and exacerbating.
And of course, once you’re all the way in your feels, you’re usually clouded, spiraling, irrational, overthinking, and knee-jerking—and it isn’t usually until much later… after you’ve said and done things you regret… that you realize you actually were any of those things.
The solution to this frustrating reality is to simply add something proactively creative or inward focused into your day.
That’s it.
It can literally make all the difference in the world.
Simply block some journaling into your morning routine. Or some drawing into your lunch breaks. Or some music creation or dancing into your evening routine. Or some martial arts into your after work schedule. Or some unplugged outdoor walks into your before work schedule.
The problem isn’t the emotions. The emotions are what make us human.
The problem is the bottling of the emotions—it’s in their restricted flow and continued compression.
Creative work/ inner work time allows those feelings to flow. And feelings are something you should expect daily (to expect otherwise is silly).
…It’s in this one simple act that we can reclaim our emotional calm within even our craziest of days. Don’t underestimate it.
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