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FEBRUARY 6

ACCEPTING FEELINGS

EMOTIONAL BALANCE

“Accepting your feelings takes less energy than trying to deny or suppress them. Also, accepting your feelings sometimes helps prevent them from recurring over and over and enables you to change them. Finally, fully accepting your feelings allows you to shift your energy to productive thoughts or actions.”

Pain Recovery: How to Find Balance and Reduce Suffering from Chronic Pain

When I have emotional balance, I am free to feel my full emotional experience, recognizing that all my feelings are part of me. I don’t avoid any of my feelings when I stay focused on being present in my body. I accept my emotions without labeling them good or bad, healthy or unhealthy.

Understanding that feelings are neither good nor bad (not judging my feelings), seeing that simply experiencing emotions does not hurt me, I know that feeling my emotions results in physical healing. By avoiding my feelings I know I will have ongoing suffering. Balanced thoughts and actions create balanced emotions.

Accepting my emotions, my feelings, frees me from my physical pain. My physical actions and habits lead to physical balance, which makes it possible for me to more fully feel the broad spectrum of my emotions; it’s a loop. Through focus on physical habits I am acting in a way that allows me to be emotionally balanced.