Exercise Your Power Over Emotional Pain
Don't Give Power to the Pain: Understand It; Address It; and Overcome It A healthy response to pain is to recognize its value in signaling us that there is a problem, such as an unhealthy state to address. Due to its distressing nature, we are typically motivated to end the pain and to resolve the underlying cause, so that we will feel good. The desire to end pain and return to a state of well-being is a healthy, adaptive response. Both in the physical and in the emotional sense, the healthy goal of ending pain is to heal and take care of or resolve whatever caused it. In the emotional sense, pain consists of distressing emotions, such as sadness, depression, anxiety, confusion, anger, hurt, jealousy, insecurity, etc. Sometimes, we focus more on the distress and discomfort of the pain, as opposed to the underlying problematic cause. In such instances, we may be motivated to simply shut down or not feel the pain. Psychologically, we may do t...