The Mighty Emotions

There are hundreds of emotions, along with their blends, variations, mutations, and nuances. There are indeed more subtleties of emotion than we have words for. Like the primary and secondary colors, researchers continue to argue over what could be the basic emotions, their significant patterns, and their roles in everyday situations. Over the years, emotions have received well-deserved importance. There have been revolutionary studies about emotional management, emotional regulation, emotional awareness, and emotional intelligence. It is time, we understand that the mere crux of every interaction, communication, thinking, and understanding is through emotions.
Acceptance, regulation, and management of emotions is an essential coping and survival skill!

On Defining Emotions
Humans have an innate desire to communicate in all possible ways. They have an urge to put across their ideas and thoughts, to be heard and accepted. Researchers have quibbled over the years defining emotions, but with the mere variation in how every brain thinks, finding one common definition of emotions could be an infinite ordeal. Dictionaries define emotions as “any agitation or disturbance of mind, feeling, passion, any vehement or excited mental state.”
Some refer to emotions as feelings, experienced during specific psychological and/or physical states. Some refer to feelings coupled with bodily changes during expression and experience. All said and done, emotions are here to stay and it is a good idea to empower them!

Children and Emotions
Children are no exceptions. In fact, as an adult, one can witness the purest forms of every emotion in a growing child. Children are fearlessly expressive, and vocal about their emotions till they enter a world that shuns them from emoting it further. But, the expression doesn’t stop, it evolves through channels. These channels could be through play, art, games and free play, nature walks, and varied forms of talks.
Educating children about the role of emotions, management, and dealing with hard emotions is an essential coping skill. With an increasing trend of informed parents and awareness, the world is being vocal about mental health concerns and emotions. Like adults, children also battle every day with an array of emotions, managing at their own pace and style.

Top 5 reasons to be friends with emotions:

Along with all other phases of development, emotional development too, holds importance and influences growth and development.

Reason 1- Emotions and an ability to thrive, save life and take action: Emotions function as tools to survive. They are active communicators between the inner and the outer world. If one is acquainted with their own set of emotions, they could present themselves better, sense dangerous situations, make better predictions, and be better at problem-solving

Reason 2- Emotions and decision-making: Emotionally aware individuals are better at decision-making. They are more alert about their own perspectives, needs, and wants. They are likely to be mindful of their surroundings and try to find a balance.

Reason 3- Emotions and Understanding Others: One of the greatest assets to humans as social animals is to build an ability to understand others. Being empathetic, unconditional, and non-judgemental towards others improves interpersonal relationships. It would become easy to engage with others, resolve conflicts and build stronger bonds.

Reason 4- Emotions and Success: Emotionally aware individuals function ahead by managing and regulating emotions systematically. Individuals who are considerate of the emotions of self and others are likely to achieve goals systematically.

Reason 5- Emotions and communication: Emotionally aware individuals are able to communicate their ideas and thoughts well. They can present themselves better.

There is no escape to experiencing every emotion, their roots are biological and innate. The body, mind, and soul are a part of the same system, tightly interconnected. It is quite essential to nurture the physical as well as the mental self to maintain equilibrium. Every being has a threshold. These thresholds are toleration limits that are built with time. An individual may try his best to maintain the set threshold, but life beyond that threshold gets difficult. That is where an individual may seek support to redirect life. Regulating, managing, and dealing with emotions is a healthy part of a life filled with miseries and challenges.