Tag: emotions
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How to Handle An Angry Person
Anger is a normal human emotion and something that we all experience from time to time. However, being on the receiving end of someone’s anger can be scary and confusing, so how do you cope with it? Usually, an angry person is reacting this way because of other feelings, like stress or fear. Therefore, it can…
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Emotional Manipulation and Its Instances in Today’s Politics
Emotional manipulation is an instrument of politics with long-term effects. Political figures use it to determine people to stay idle or act upon something, contrary to their interests. But how can this happen without us realizing it? Well, there are some little cheats that make a speech, ad, or campaign successful. But there are also…
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Growing a Marriage: Deepening the Emotional Conversation, part 2
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi In this article we will look at how to work with the negativity that arises within us through conversations with our partner in marriage. In the previous post, part…
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How to Rebuild Trust in Marriage: Emotional Honesty
How to rebuild trust in a marriage requires an emotional honesty that can be learned. Trust is foundational for a human beings’ development and happiness from birth through adulthood. Therefore, the opportunity to work with trust issues is profound for the growth of individuals as well as the relationship. Healing a breach of trust is…
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Emotional Intelligence Coupled with Thinking
We can develop intelligent emotionality or feeling just as we can develop intelligent thinking. Emotions range from the most ecstatic love and appreciation to the most negative and painful. They are as significant to our inner nature as water is to our outer nature. When our inner water/emotion dries up or freezes over, our spirit…
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Bipolar 1, Bipolar 2: Mania and Depression
When we look at the symptoms of bipolar 1 or bipolar 2, we see symptoms that are a result of unresolved emotional confusion about relationships, uncertainty about one’s place in the culture, and very little control of instinctual drives and emotions. When we move into adulthood and there is little or no guidance; mania and…
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Anger Management, Going a Little Deeper
I would like to go a little farther with this very good explanation of anger management that was written by: Jeanne Segal, Ph.D., and Melinda Smith, M.A. http://www.helpguide.org/mental/anger_management_control_tips_techniques.htm Please read this first to get a broader picture. Segal and Smith wrote that anger is often a cover-up for other feelings. “In order to get your…
