How to Feel Your Feelings

Truly experiencing your feelings allows you to let go of regret, release past hurts and strengthen your relationships. Gaining this ability can also help you stay emotionally balanced and prevent you from bottling up emotions or feeling isolated. According to HelpGuide.Org, processing your feelings allows people to communicate emotions more effectively with others.

Things You'll Need

• Journal

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Instructions

• 1

  Consider a situation in your life. Recognize the emotion that you possess immediately upon thinking about it. Work to become comfortable with each feeling that comes up by recognizing individual emotional instances. Give yourself permission to feel the way you naturally do.

• 2

  Acknowledge the root of the emotion to make sure you are emotionally recognizing the actual situation.

• 3

  Listen to your body and the natural signals it sends you. Pay attention to these signals to figure out ways to prevent emotional stress and increase feelings of happiness.

• 4

  Journal daily about the emotional situations you experience to prevent yourself from substituting feelings as life goes on.