How to Deal with and Release Negative Emotions in a Healthy Way

Or maybe by distracting ourselves, keeping busy and telling ourselves that we have more important things to do will alleviate this feeling.

But the truth is, holding in emotions, especially negative ones, only makes things worse; they can actually hurt you.

Some examples of negative emotions are: anger, frustration, anxiety, stress, jealousy, hatred, impatience, worry, irritation, guilt, regret, fear, nervousness, and sorrow.

Everything is made up of energy, even our emotions.  When you are in a stressed out state, you have a lot of negative energy within you.  If you don’t let it out, it will start to build up inside of your body and mind.

Because this negative energy wants to move and come out, if you don’t release it on your own, it will release itself in other ways, through force, because it needs and wants to come out. This will happen through mental outbursts, sudden rages of anger, physical symptoms, and sickness.  Holding in this negative energy also leads to more severe forms of anxiety and stress, and can also create disease in your body if it remains unchecked for a long period of time.

Disease is dis- ease.  Your body and mind are not at ease when you are stressed so it becomes dis-eased.

This is why when people are stressed out, their skin breaks out more easily, they are more susceptible to catching a cold, and they can develop all sorts of physical and mental ailments.  That is the body’s way of communicating that something is wrong and that something inside of you wants to come out, but because you are not releasing it, your body releases it for you through other (less healthy) ways.

The positive side? Even your sicknesses can teach you a lot and be an opportunity to look within yourself and see… what is it that I am holding in that needs to be released?

Have you ever met someone with a really short temper? Carrying so much negative energy within them that the littlest things can make them explode?

If we hold in our emotions instead of releasing them when they arise, they start to fester inside of us, making us short tempered, irrational, and reactive.  However, if we learn to balance our emotions by dealing with them head on, we avoid becoming overly emotional and we learn to respond to life in a more sensible and healthy way.