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Aug 1, 2019 · Advertisement. Myth 2. “Being emotional means being out of control.”. Challenge: It is possible to be emotional and be in control. Our emotions can be strong. They can even be overwhelming at times and we can still act skillfully to control our actions. Myth 3. “All painful emotions are a result of a bad attitude.”.
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- You can’t help how you feel. Emotions are forms of judgment. A person’s emotional experience typically results from a subjective interpretation (appraisal) of an event rather than the event itself, even though the appraisal (beliefs) involved may not be accurate.
- Emotions cannot be expressed in words. It is true that our language is not developed for “inner experience.” But it does not follow that emotions are indescribable.
- Emotions are feelings. Neuroscientist Damasio writes that feelings are a bodily experience provoked by an emotional response. Feelings require some element of awareness.
- "The hydraulic metaphor." As the name suggests, if emotions are denied expression, they will leak somewhere else. And we need to express our emotions to feel better.
- Step One: Myths About Emotions
- Step Two: Identifying The Level of Belief in The Myths
- Step Three: How They Affect You
- Example
In the first step, we are going to present some of the most common myths about emotions. As you are reading them try to observe whether some of them sound too familiar to you - maybe you've been acting in accordance to them. For every myth, there is a statement that refutes the myth. 1. Myth: "I should never let others know how I feel because they ...
Now that you got familiarized with some of the most common myths about emotions, think about which one of these you think is most common in the way you perceive yourself, other people and the environment. Take the worksheet, and on a scale of 1-10, write down how prevalent these are in your belief system.
Pick the top three myths that you think are occurring most frequently in the way you think. Try to think about how they affect you. In what way do you behave because of them? Try to imagine in what ways your life would be different if you acted according to the opposing and more realistic views.
Myth: "If I feel like doing something, then that must be the right decision for me." Situation in which I act according to this belief: I often pick fights with people because I easily get angry. Usually I feel like it is right for me to just express the anger, and at the moment of the conversation with the person, I have no doubts that I should ha...
- There is a right way to feel in every situation. Emotions are not right or wrong, good or bad. Emotions provide us with cues and clues about specific situations and prepare us to respond.
- Letting others know I am feeling bad is a weakness. We all experience unpleasant emotions – not because we are weak – but because we are mammals and our brains are geared to be informed by emotion.
- I can’t control how I feel. We tend to assume that emotions just happen or that others make us feel a particular emotion, for example ‘she made me angry’.
- Negative emotion is bad and destructive, or will cause some harm. Emotions are neither positive nor negative – they are there for a reason. They may be more or less pleasant or comfortable, but they are not ‘bad’ or ‘bad for us’.
Oct 16, 2024 · Myth #1: "Emotions are either good or bad." Many people believe emotions can be divided into "good" and "bad" categories—happiness, excitement, and love being good, while sadness, anger, and fear are bad. This myth leads to the idea that we should always aim to feel positive emotions and avoid negative ones.
If we don’t challenge the myths about emotions, those myths become the pillars which determine how we interpret our emotions, and how we act on them. If the myths regarding emotions are overwhelmingly negative, we become more likely to engage in ineffective or destructive behaviors in response to these negative myths. Below are 20 co m m o n ...
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Aug 22, 2018 · Myth #4: Some emotions are stupid. TRUTH: This is one of the common myths about emotions that can really stifle you. Believing any emotion is stupid—especially the emotions that make you feel vulnerable, such as shame, sadness or fear—is a way of invalidating yourself and your own experience. For example, if you feel sad or angry about not ...
