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\nEmotions<\/strong> are a special class of subjective psychological states reflected in the form of direct experiences, sensations of pleasant or unpleasant, a person’s attitude to the world and other people. I want to clarify: the subjective states are exactly those that a person needs to survive and understand the subjective reality around him.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
Speaking from the point of view of conservation mechanisms, emotions are the best and most reliable guard of our life. Since already on microsymptoms we feel that it is unpleasant, scary or disgusting for us to interact with someone or something. And it’s very honest and almost out of control.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
How do our beautiful and terrible emotions help us?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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- Our emotions signal us about the important. When we have an honest dialogue with ourselves, we can understand ourselves through emotions. I think everyone has been in a situation more than once when outwardly everything is beautiful and delightful, but in the soul there is a persistent feeling of fear. And then we start to think – what’s wrong. And, as a rule, we come to the right idea.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n
- Our emotions motivate us. Through persistent interest, we constantly return to the desire to get and have something, and as you understand, this is a great platform for action. We are inherently very lazy, and the emotional calls of our desires lift us up nicely.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n
- Our emotions protect us from brain overload. It is clear that each of us is limited by our individual experience, and no matter how many books we read, we integrate only emotionally colored experiences into our consciousness and memory. And, of course, if we don\u2019t understand something, and we don\u2019t have enough living experience or elementary knowledge about what is happening, we compensate for this with strong emotions, thus ensuring that we relieve ourselves of the load. The symbolic information deficit compensation function is very convenient for security. I don’t understand, but I can get emotional. Often this is clearly seen when, while living through difficult situations in life (pain, suffering, despair), a person comes to a consultation with the question – WHY did this happen. It is important for him to understand, and as soon as he agrees with himself, emotions gradually fade away.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n
- But emotions can also disorganize us. If you are too immersed in some emotional experiences, there is a violation of the balance “I feel-I understand.” Then the person is in a state of emotional chaos. And it is precisely in such cases that you need to try to clear yourself of unnecessary emotions that prevent you from soberly perceiving yourself and reality.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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I would like to outline a few creative tricks to make it easier to interact with your states and harmonize them in a situation of loss of control over emotions:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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- Pouring out emotions<\/strong> on paper in a convenient way. You can paint over the sheets, draw geometric shapes, or just do scribbles until the meanings appear in your head. And all unnecessary emotions will remain on the sheets. I often remember one gentle girl from my counseling practice who poured out her anger on 25 meters of roll paper. When the work was over, and I began to remove the paper, my entire, at that time tiny, office was filled with anger that poured out of such a fragile and completely not evil person. But it helped her a lot to get over her anger.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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- Structuring emotions<\/strong> is my favorite method. There are situations when everything that happens inside is not entirely clear and strange, as if there is no way out, and you go in circles in your emotions, and it feels like it will be forever. But no, believe me, this frustration of understanding is spiritual growth. If everything is clear and understandable, then this is from past experience. Growth is always difficult and complex, often not clear. You know what they say – “I decided to develop, be prepared for the consequences.” And in this case, the method of mandalas comes to our aid: they can be drawn, glued from pieces of magazines or drawings, simply sculpted from clay, sprinkled with salt or sand, embroidered, minted … There are many forms of creating mandalas, it is important to find your own. Since it is the image of the mandala that gives us the opportunity to find a fulcrum and center of ourselves, to collect all emotions into a system of understanding, gives clarity of feeling ourselves and, as a result, understanding. I remember how I once very much succumbed to charm and, subsequently, to disappointment. This thought was like an annoying fly itching in my head, interfering with my life and work. Time after time, I scrolled through the situations and thought where I missed something, didn\u2019t see it, didn\u2019t do it. At one point, I got tired of losing my energy like that, and I took the most disgusting bright and catchy paints and sketched several sheets, reflecting the color image of my disappointment. Having torn it all into small pieces, I began to design a mandala and glue its new image onto a sheet of paper. She turned out just gorgeous. On separate parts, I depicted some symbols and patterns. The result was unexpectedly pleasant and joyful. This is where I caught myself thinking: if this makes me happy and pleased, perhaps I don\u2019t see the main thing from the event that happened – joy. Now I very often get rid of situations of tension in this way, when you need to accept the uncertainty, the unknown, the inevitability of the World. Try it!<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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- Transformation of emotions<\/strong> or, if I may say so, their substitution. Often we are still attuned to situations that are no longer relevant. Let me tell you how it happens in our body. A long time ago, when my son was still very small and his first milk teeth erupted, like many children, he had a strong temperature, one might say critically, for this complex process. Like a tooth erupted, but the temperature continued not to subside. As a normal mom with a medical background, I started looking for infections and inflammations that could give fever. But more than 7 days there were no reasons. Thank God, the world gives wise people, and one resuscitator said to me: \u201cBaby, his body just remembered the temperature as the right program to survive. It will take 9 days – the temperature will start to go away. It happened exactly as this DOCTOR FROM GOD said. Then I very often saw the same thing in the psychosomatics of my clients, and in the mentality of many peoples: 9 days matter.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Therefore, understanding this wisdom, I took it as a rule: to allow my clients to experience the most destructive emotions at first glance, but not more than 9 days, and then translate them into something useful or simply gradually reduce strength and intensity if it is impossible to translate them into something constructive. After all, it happens in every way.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
In the practice of creativity, this is quite simple, it can be denoted by one thesis: “It was like this – do it better.” For example, having depicted your emotions, you can then change them, redraw them, decorate, remake, decorate, stick a new creative layer. The main thing is to do it differently and better for yourself! <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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