Emotions – Positive and Negative
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Emotions are often regarded as positive or negative. But is that fair to a holistic and well rounded individual. Probably not. We too often consider emotions such as anger, jealousy, and sometimes even sadness, as negative emotions.
A total human being is constructed of all emotions; separating one emotion from another, and declaring some to be invalid, negates more than the emotion. It negates the individual.
I would propose, that it is not the emotion that is negative, but how the emotion is expressed, that could be considered negative. It is human nature to feel anger and jealousy. How we handle the expression of those emotions, determines their right to exist within us. Feeling a negative emotion, not reacting immediately, and evaluating how we can channel that feeling and learn from it, validates any emotion regardless of whether or not it is considered dark or bright.
“To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man’s heart.”
Francesco Guicciardini“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”
Jim Rohn“One’s suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields – even to sadness.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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