Do You Resist Your Emotions?

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While resisting emotions might be a good strategy in the short term to protect ourselves from feeling hurt, stupid or vulnerable, it creates a tremendous amount of stress on the body/mind in the long run, and never solves the true, underlying problem.

Emotional Resistance comes in many shapes and sizes. If you answer ‘yes’ to any of these questions, you may be resisting your emotions:

1. Do you feel stupid or less-than because you are “so sensitive” when compared with others around you?

2. Is your motto, “talk to the hand” when you sense an emotion welling? In other words, do you tend to ignore or push away feelings as soon as they come up?

3. Have you told your significant other or any family members that it’s best not to “dwell on things we can’t change”?

4. Do you chide yourself for being too self-absorbed?

5. Are you a “closet-emoter”? Someone who hides emotion with others but lets loose as soon as you’re on your own?