Feelings are normal: here’s how to work with them
In a given day, we experience a vast range of emotions. It’s so easy to identify ourselves or our life with one of these. The more we practice noticing their rise and fall, the better we can see that they’re more like the weather than anything else: ever-changing, blending together, and impermanent.
One 2015 study looked at the experience of daily emotions and found the top frequently experienced emotions were: 1) Joy, 2) Love, 3) Anxiety, 4) Satisfaction, and 5) Alertness. Close behind were hope, sadness and amusement. Saturdays are the days where we feel the most happy emotions.
The study also found that you can experience both positive and negative emotions at the same time. Anxiety and love co-occurred the most together. Learning to recognize and see how this natural phenomena plays out means that we start to learn how to relate in a more helpful way to our emotions, which can truly change our lives.
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