Written by Eugene Morgan
“….Cause all our feelings are done by ourselves,” Milton Erickson
As humans we experience our lives through our feelings. Feelings help us to stay in contact with our environment and with other people. As long as we interact with others, there will always be a chance that we will experience a certain emotion. Why do we love listening to stories, or watching movies, or watching plays? Because these things invoke emotions from us like excitement, sadness, joy, or anger. Emotions helps us to connect with and identify with the characters. Our emotions help us stay connected with each other. Some of us were taught to not express emotion, like anger. Emotions aren’t necessarily good or bad, they tell others and ourselves what we’re feeling. When certain emotions aren’t allow, we lose our connectedness to others and world. Our world becomes black and white or gray. Let us properly express our emotions without fear of the consequences.