Emotions are nothing to fear

I’m currently enrolled in the Life Coach School and classes start in t-minus two weeks! This has been something I’ve wanted to do for a long time but now that just happening my brain has been straight trippin boo! I’ve been feeling a lot of different emotions, both positive and negative. But here’s the thing about emotions. They really aren’t anything to fear. They are just vibrations in your body created by your thoughts. They can come and go if we allow them instead of pushing them away. And trust me! I’m the queen of resisting emotion. I’ve gotten better now that I know it’s my thoughts that are the cause of everything but I can think of plenty of times when I’ve made things so much worse than they needed to be simply by not being willing to relax and be present with a negative emotion. Here’s an example: I’m someone who really really hates needles. Every time I’ve had to have a shot I tell the person giving it that I’m just going to look away until it’s over. I close my eyes super tight like a 3 year old. Palms sweaty, mouth dry, all of it. What’s funny is the actual prick of the needle is usually a lot less intense than what I make it out to be in my head. I think it’s the same with our emotions. We want so badly to feel good and happy and peaceful in our lives and anytime that feels threatened by a negative emotion we do one of 4 things: we either resist, react, avoid, or accept what we’re feeling. The first 3 options get us nowhere and usually even make the emotion stronger and more uncomfortable. The best possible thing we can do is relax and allow ourselves to feel whatever we are feeling. While also recognizing that the feeling is always coming from a thought. The reason this is all the best news is that when you’re feeling negative emotion it doesn’t mean something is wrong with you or your life. It really just means that you’re human.