Emotional Wellbeing – The Power of Feeling

What is emotional wellbeing-

Emotional well-being is the ability to produce positive emotions, moods, thoughts, and feelings, and adapt when confronted with adversity and stressful situations.

One of its foundations is resilience, which allows you to navigate challenging life events. Think of resilience like a muscle. It flexes and develops the more you use it. Resilience impacts how you face challenges and how you think about the challenges you face.

Emotional well-being allows you to focus on the positive and manage the negative emotions and feelings you may have in a given situation. This can help you forge stronger relationships with those around you.

A positive sense of well-being…enables an individual to be able to function in society and meet the demands of everyday life. Well-being generally includes judgments of life satisfaction and feelings ranging from depression to joy.

Why emotional wellbeing is important-

Your resilience grows when you recognize the emotions that trigger you and express them in a constructive manner to yourself and others.

As you place more emphasis on your emotional well-being, you’re able to:

• Receive and offer feedback with a healthy perspective.
• Have discussions and difficult conversations with anyone.
• Establish stronger relationships.

That’s because your level of understanding, empathy, humour, and compassion increases. You view yourself and others with less judgment.

Everything in your life — emotional, social, spiritual, physical, and intellectual — connects in a state of well-being. For example, walking just 10-15 minutes a day gives your brain a boost. That means more energy, awareness, and a healthier outlook on life. Exercise of any sort balances your dopamine and serotonin levels, it also improves your sleep and reduces stress and anxiety. All of this can make you better equipped to manage your feelings and emotions.

Each area of your well-being has the potential to impact other areas. Many research studies focus on how poor mental well-being negatively impacts physical health — leading to an increased risk in cancer, heart disease, and respiratory disease. There is an emerging set of data that is focusing on the effects of positive well-being.

How to improve your emotional wellbeing.

Your range of emotions—and how you manage them—influences your emotional health. Here are eight ways you can control your emotions and feelings, and stay resilient:

1. Move your body. Do some sort of physical activity every 90 minutes. Exercise. Dance. Fold laundry. Weather permitting, get outside. Walk around the block. Run. Visit a park.
2. Establish a routine. Create a schedule that balances the work you do with the life you want. Set time for your meetings. Block space to set goals. Create room to read. Cook a new dish. Listen to music.
3. Connect with others. Love on your family. Check in with those who support you. Ask for help. Learn something out of your comfort zone. Spend time with someone who you respect.
4. Forgive. Forgive others and forgive yourself. Forgiveness frees you to keep your power. Forgiveness opens the path to live in the moment. Forgiveness allows for growth and happiness.
5. Do something for others. Offer to do something for someone you know or don’t know, for which you cannot be repaid. Pick up groceries for a neighbor. Volunteer online. Send a thank you note.
6. Sleep. Healthy sleep gives your body the chance to repair itself. Sleep refreshes your brain to manage your memories and process information. You wake up in a better mood.
7. Be kind to yourself. What gives you joy? Where are you most at peace? When do you have space to be you? As you are kind to yourself, you will want to extend that kindness beyond yourself.
8. Be self-aware. Notice the thoughts, actions, habits, and character traits that serve you well. And when you spot what needs to change, you’ll be ready. You will simply know.