What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings?
First and foremost; acceptance. Emotions and feelings are apart of the human experience, joy and even sadness contribute to our richness as human beings.
While some try, totally controlling one’s emotions is not possible. It is however very possible to influence the feelings surrounding that emotion.
When they arrive I try to be mindful and if I’m able to I will change my environment to influence my feelings and invoke more positive thoughts. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, nature has a profound way of grounding me.
Negative feelings visit me often so I’ve learned to treat them as they are; visitors. Stoping by to remind me of my humanness.
In Quest of Her 
Gentle wisdom.
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I find it interesting that, as humans, we have to assign value judgements to everything, including emotions. I love your strategy of acceptance, though, and just letting the “visitor” stay to do it’s thing and then allowing it to move on. 😊
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