Harmonize Your Happiness to Produce Power.
The difference between the high and low frequencies of joy and of despair creates potential energy between them. Emotions need to change in order to harness the power in them. Staying in happiness too long can lead to complacency; Staying in despair too long can lead to illness and depression.
We can choose how to express our emotions, rather than repress them. If a feeling starts to come up during a meeting, someone’s party, or another inconvenient time, we put the feeling on hold. To keep that feeling from getting repressed, we can decide a time later–setting an alarm may be helpful–to sit with the feeling for a few minutes. We can listen to a sad song or watch a sad movie trailer, for example, to bring a sad feeling back up, & allow us to process it.
No feeling is bad. It’s what we do with it that counts. If we push away anger, sadness, or fear for too long, it becomes repressed. When feelings pile up, they’ll eventually come out on their own; out of control. We repeat phrases to each other that contribute to the problem of repression; phrases like “I’m sorry you feel that way,” & “You made me feel __” implying that our feelings are the problem and that we’re responsible for each other’s feelings rather than our own, which is inaccurate.
Let’s take our power back in the form of managing our own emotions. When a feeling is triggered by an interaction with another person, the feeling was in us already–it’s part of us–and we can choose gratitude for the person for helping bring it up. We can then deal with any trauma that has kept it repressed until then.
We can incorporate emotional healing into our daily routine to regulate changes between emotions; This will harmonize our happiness to unlock the potential power in all our emotions.
Why is this relevant?
As of 2023, Utah is among the states with the highest levels of depression, according to the World Population Review. According to Desert Sands Ketamine Medical Clinic, more than half of Utan’s with mental illness do not seek medical help. From 2011 to 2015 youth suicides increased in Utah 141.3%, compared to an increase of 23.5% nationally, according to the CDC. Clearly, our culture needs to better address mental health problems. I believe a disruption of our perspective on happiness is necessary and can help improve the mental health and happiness of our communities. With all the challenges our world is facing; post quarantine, climate change, war, emerging AI, and more; we are all experiencing intense complex emotions. A new perspective along with tools for emotional well-being can help us survive and adapt to our rapidly changing environment.
Above all, remember;
You. Matter.
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About the Author:
I have a physics degree; I worked as a physics and math teacher in high school, and briefly in college. I am currently a Masters student of data analytics at WGU. I am a mother of two children, one has severe autism and is nonverbal. I have a handful of mental health disorders, and had difficulty obtaining the medical help I needed to manage them. Because of the significant challenges I faced to get help in the conventional sense, I’ve worked relentlessly to learn unconventional methods for becoming more functional. I have turned my life around, and I am determined to help share what I’ve learned, and discovered for myself, so more people can heal faster and easier, and together we can reduce the unnecessary suffering in our communities.
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