Tag: Emotions

How to Care for Yourself Emotionally During the Holiday Season

On By Zeenat Merchant Syal-Counseling Psychologist|Spiritual CounselorIn Emotions, healing, Mind, Mind-Mental Health, spiritual healing2 Comments

The holiday season has a way of magnifying our inner worlds. For some, the end of year holiday arrives wrapped in excitement, warmth, and connection. For others, it presses on tender places like grief, loneliness, exhaustion, financial stress, or the simple weight of trying to “feel festive” when that isn’t how the heart actually feels.

If you are struggling this holiday season, know this: your experience is valid, your emotions are valid, and you don’t need to meet the season with anything more than honesty and gentleness.

Here are a few gentle ways to truly care for yourself emotionally during the stressful holiday season…

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7 Positive Strategies to Help You Regulate and Manage Negative Emotions

On By Zeenat Merchant Syal-Counseling Psychologist|Spiritual CounselorIn Emotions, Heal Your Soul Column, healing, Mind, Mind-Mental Health2 Comments

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~ Viktor E. Frankl

Managing negative emotions in healthy ways is crucial for overall well-being. When I didn’t know how to manage my own emotions, I would get triggered so fast and then react on that trigger even faster, which often led to me regretting what came out of my mouth.

I came to a point in my life when I was always so exhausted with everything. Which led to the realization that I can’t change anyone, other than myself….and so I need to let everyone be, for the sake of my own peace of mind and sanity.

Basically, mastering my own emotions helped my mind, heart and soul to calm down.

What are negative emotions actually?

Negative emotions are unpleasant or distressing feelings that arise in response to challenging, painful, or threatening situations. They are a natural part of the human emotional spectrum and serve important psychological and survival functions, such as helping us recognize danger, process loss, or respond to injustice.

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A Positive Step-by-Step Guide to Handling Any BIG Emotion

On By Zeenat Merchant Syal-Counseling Psychologist|Spiritual CounselorIn Emotions, healing, Mind, Mind-Mental Health, Positive Self Reflection, spiritual healing21 Comments

“Depression and anxiety can’t fit in your head if you’re cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.” ~ Austin Butler

Life is a journey that is actually full of emotions and feelings. Everything that happens in our life we have attached an emotion to it. In fact, if you think of any event from the past(even yesterday) the emotion attached to that event is what you feel first when you think about it.

Its amazing how everything we are, is a sum total of the feelings and emotions we have been through. But, sometimes the emotions feel too BIG to handle in certain situations. And that is very normal. We all can feel overwhelmed when we feel these big emotions coming on. They are often triggered by life-changing decisions or events.

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