How to build emotional endurance

When faced with a distressing emotion, what's your initial reaction? Do you find yourself wanting to quickly suppress, brush aside, or overlook the feeling?

And in challenging conversations, is your instinct to rush through them just to get them over with?

It's completely understandable to want to push away unpleasant emotions. The issue arises when we avoid dealing with the root emotion, like sadness, only for it to transform into something else such as anxiety, depression, or anger. The sadness doesn't disappear; it merely evolves into a different form.

Paula recently shared her experience grappling with significant anxiety about an upcoming trip and how she navigated through it.

It's essential to recognize that emotions aren't inherently good or bad, and judging them won't make them go away. By allowing ourselves to sit with these emotions without fear, we can gradually build emotional endurance over time through this practice.

Paula encourages us to be brave and learn to sit with our unpleasant emotions, because this is really the only way to get through them. 

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Nick Wignall on Emotional Endurance

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