Make Your Emotions Assets, Never Liabilities.
From burning anger to deepest love: Emotions are the most immediate physical responses from our body to essential signals from the outside world. They arise before and without thought, reasoning, or choice. Welcome our today’s guest: Emotions, from the Latin emotio -0nis: “Impulse that induces Action”

We could say that Emotions are reactions to external stimuli or to feelings themselves. The human emotional-system is our natural guidance system, developed through evolutionary trial and error over millions of years. It is most useful when we don’t try to fight it (far more useful, I would say)

Long story short: Emotions are not always reliable. In some situations, they help us cut through appearances and illusions, working as a kind of internal radar. But, and here comes one realization that pretty much changed my life: “The map is not the territory.”

The emotion that I am starting to experience now is not speaking a fact; it is not making a statement: It is (only) building up for signaling something; it is DATA, not INFORMATION. We need to learn to treat them as such; data, not information.

Emotions are full of wisdom, bringing both shortcuts and shortcircuits with them, as they are not fully compatible read-ready for our prefrontal cortex.

Now,…imagine trying to correct troubling emotions->feelings->thoughts: That chain guides us to focus unnecessarily on them and on solving them. What is the point of trying to solve a thought (that arose from emotion) as it would be a fact? Or trying to change it from negative to positive? that is a sure way for suffering. Again, is data not yet information…
['Javier Rumi']
['Emotions', 'Emotional Intelligence', 'Happiness', 'Choices', 'Psychology']