Emotion And Losing Weight
Losing weight can be quite an emotional experience, but do we really understand our emotions? Are our efforts to lose weight hampered by our lack of emotional awareness?
We often fail to identify our emotions properly. We’re too casual (and sometimes lazy) about correctly naming our emotions. We think we’re angry when actually we’re not angry at all – we’re irritated. There’s a very big difference. If we then behave as if we’re angry, we’ll send out all the wrong signals. Confusion and misunderstanding is the result – for us and for others.
There are eight primary emotions: fear, acceptance, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, anticipation and happiness. What you need to be able to do is to identify the ‘color’ of the emotion. For instance, let’s take anger. At one end of the spectrum this could be annoyance, and at the other end it could be rage. In between there’s frustration, irritation, indignation, malice, fury and hatred. There’s a huge variation. Are you angry or just irritated? Is it really hatred that you feel or are you just thoroughly frustrated?
You can see why it’s so important to recognize and identify your emotions accurately. If you get it wrong, or just don’t take enough care, you’ll distort your thinking. Before you know it, negative thoughts will be multiplying in your mind.
Being overweight can be emotionally challenging, so it’s very important that you take care (and time) to identify your emotions properly.
Being able to read and manage your emotions will be very important when it comes to losing weight permanently. When you achieve permanent weight loss you’ll find that an emotionally intelligent approach to maintaining that weight loss will be immensely helpful.
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