Owning Your Feelings Helps Others To Help You

Emotional Healing

Owning our feelings is an important step to satisfying our own needs but it is also an important way to help others satisfy our needs, or at least not harm us.

We tend to listen when other people express their feelings towards us. This is an important communication skill that allows us to tend to the needs of those people, or at least, not to harm them in some way. It takes a lot of courage to express certain emotions, however, and this can prevent us from letting others know our needs.

If you have certain needs, or if something that someone else is doing is affecting you negatively, it is important to own your emotions as a step to confidently communicating them. 

This is one of the best ways to get what you need to be comfortable and productive or to avoid things that others unknowingly do that make you uncomfortable or unproductive.

Owning your feelings and airing them when necessary can also be an important step to creating an atmosphere in which people feel safe and comfortable expressing their feelings. These environments are the best to work in, and people often do their best work in these environments

QUESTIONS TO REFLECT ON:

Thinking

  • Are you actively thinking about understanding yourself and your feelings?
  • Are you thinking about all the the things that help you feel good?
  • Are you thinking about how you can further develop how to own up to your feelings?

Talk – New Language

  • Are you actively expressing the how you feel?
  • Do you speak of all the good and positive things that make you feel good and name the things that you like?
  • Are you continuously telling yourself and reminding yourself to own up to your feelings and emotions?

Behaviour

  • Do you accept your feelings and own up to them fully?
  • Do you try and focus on positive behaviours that help you own up to your feelings?
  • Do you continuously learn more about how owning up to your feelings and emotions can help you?

Relationships & Contribution

  • Do you acknowledge that by owning up to your feelings, you’re letting people know how to help you better?
  • Are you willing to make sure that you always own up to your feelings so that people can help you better?