It is not often in early life that we are encouraged to undertake training of our emotions. Perhaps a little restraint over the negative ones and unconscious encouragement of our finer one is the common experience in early home life as we respond to outer circumstances and whatever family life teaches us.
We are not aware of the power that emotions have. They can steer us to future happiness or to damage our healthy intellectual development or interfere with our mental fitness as well as our physical well being.
Our emotions are usually left to develop as the individual matures. Adolescence years determine a stage towards acquiring emotional independence, instead of continuing previous patterns and values. So we begin to determine emotional expression and desirable or appropriate behaviour for ourselves.
However, throughout life we all need to discourage the negative and control any destructive feelings in our emotional life. Opportunity for deliberate emotional control comes to us after life experiences serve to demonstrate the destructive potential of emotional energy. We learn that a few moments of uncontrolled emotion can destroy years of previous effort and fortune.
If we wish to freely develop our intellect, we must have our emotions under control and definitely on side so that mind and feelings are co-operative. If we are not able to rely upon stable and vital emotions, we will never be sure that negative feelings and responses will not rear up to damage our life or enterprises in some way, particularly in regard to relationships.
Our emotions, particularly the finest emotions, also require nourishment in order to grow through the kindness and understanding of others.
Negative feelings tend to grow as easily as weeds in our nature if we do not undertake constant cultivation in order to keep them under control. Finally we hope to eradicate them from our personality so that we can happily, lovingly and intelligently enjoy life with peace of mind knowing a healthy state of emotional and mental fitness.
Sally Janssen’s wonderful book “Mental Fitness: The complete Self-Help Guide”, offers simple and timely solutions. Read more….
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