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Honor Your Negative Emotions (Part 2 of Awareness is the Magic Bullet)

Learn to look at life differently and heal your past. This will enable you to create a peaceful and loving present and future.

Honoring your negative emotions is an act of love, whereas allowing them to rule is an act of unconscious behavior.

Allowing negative emotions to rule you is destructive to your wellbeing. More than most people realize. Love yourself and take good care of yourself when you are frustrated and miserable. Do something to make yourself feel better. How you feel greatly impacts your life and EVERYTHING within it.

Honoring your negative emotions is an act of awareness and understanding, acknowledging what is within you, whereas allowing them to rule is lack of awareness and understanding, and denial.

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Very often we push our negativity aside and deny its presence. The only one we are truly fooling is ourselves. Our negativity is going to show up in some way, shape or form. Perhaps we will overreact emotionally or withdraw from our surroundings. Perhaps we will engage in bad habits and/or compulsive behaviors. We may not even recognize what is happening. Our lack of awareness guarantees that our negativity will perpetuate. Honor your negative emotions by acknowledging their presence. Understand why they are surfacing. Be aware of yourself and help yourself.

Honoring your negative emotions is giving your emotions a proper place and healing, whereas allowing them to rule is giving them inflated importance which will keep you from experiencing a grander version of life.

Think about this…when negativity rules us that becomes our reality. It takes us over. It narrows our line of sight. We fail to see solutions and discover resolution. In short, our negativity keeps us from experiencing a grander version of life. How can anyone feel good about life if they are ruled by negativity?

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Learn to look at life differently and heal your past. This will enable you to create a peaceful and loving present and future. Embrace your negative emotions and heal.

Transform your life—Honor Your Negative Emotions.

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