STICKY EMOTIONS

This is our new way of describing how our emotions can become 'stuck' for children. Our emotions were designed to flow through us, carrying with them messages to help us to live a balanced life. However, many of us have not learnt how to listen to our emotions, especially the painful uncomfortable ones and so we try to repress or bury them. This causes our emotions to become stuck in a loop, resulting in our behaviour also becoming 'stuck'.

To release our sticky emotions all we have to do is to be truthful with ourselves about how we are feeling and to 'listen' to the messages of our emotions.Then they feel they have done their job and will leave us. Easier said than done you say! You are right. It takes practice and a desire to change behaviour.

To find out if you have any sticky emotions go to our programme www.myenow.com

Why Do We Apologize for Being Emotional?

Yesterday I heard someone say to a loved one 'I am sorry for being so emotional, I will be okay tomorrow.'
I wanted to say, 'So tomorrow you will not be a human being, but become some alien who has no feelings at all?'

We have learnt to hide our true emotions not only to others but more importantly to ourselves. When someone asks us how we are we will say that we are fine, ok or good which can mean just about anything. We also use the word 'stress' to cover a multitude of feelings which seems to have a common understanding with everyone; 'He is just a bit stressed at the moment.' But what emotions are involved with being stressful, fine, ok or good? How are you really feeling and why wouldn't you think someone else would be interested in the way you feel right now? After all, we all have the capability of feeling all of the same emotions.

It could be that we are in a habit of just using a certain number of words to describe how we feel - happy, sad, angry, calm etc. Maybe we need to increase our emotional vocabulary to help us describe how we are feeling. It would be incredibly useful for our children to learn an expanded emotional vocabulary list.

The emotional revolution requires us to accept that as human beings we are emotional. Our emotions help to drive our behaviour so therefore are important to us all. Being honest with ourselves is the first step towards earning how to acknowledge and accept our feelings. 

GP Practices

We are proud to announce that there are currently nine GP Practices in the South of England participating in the MYE Programme. The feedback we have received from the doctors have been excellent. It seems that the programme is proving to be very effective.