Hi there,
It has been a long time, isn't it? First of
all, I will let it clear that I am not a native English speaker. But, due to English
is becoming a global language and my purpose is to beneficiate as much people
as possible, I beg you pardon for the mistakes you may detect in this text. I
am just trying to do my best.
What you are about to encounter in this text
are some ideas about how writing letters may help you to control, manage and
embrace your emotions at the same time you improve and maintain your social
relationships. If it doesn't sound interesting for you, you may stop reading. My
sources till date are my Bachelor Degree in Psychology and several online
courses (inspirational one: https://www.miriadax.net/web/mindfulness-para-regular-emociones-programa-inteligencia-emocional-plena
[Mindfulness and emotional intelligence program to handle emotions]).
As presented in the course aforementioned,
emotional confrontation is a process through which a person faces his or her
emotions, the opposite to emotional inhibition. This confrontation increases
the emotional well-being and the physical health, reduces the intensity of the
emotions and the frequency of intrusive thoughts; and finally, helps to
understand what has happen, analyze it from different points of view; and, confer
and integrate the experience. So that, expressing and comprehend our emotions
instead of inhibit them seems to be highly beneficial.
But, there is a small problem called social pressure.
Social pressure appears when we perceive that people around us are not
receptive to our emotional disclosure, look insensitive, minimize or deny the
problem. Therefore, the emitter feels worry
and inhibits his communication.
Then, what can we do to facilitate the benefits
of emotional confrontation avoiding the disadvantages of the social pressure? Easy,
writing letters.
In a situation when we feel overwhelmed by our
emotions writing letters can allow us to disclosure and release this emotional intensity
to our addressee without involving him or her directly. Besides, we can have a
reliable register of our thoughts to deal with them when we feel more prepared.
That way, we can save a relationship thanks to postponing the fighting in the heat
of the moment to a more calm and safe situation. It is not necessary to worry
about the denial or forget of our feelings and emotions, due to, whilst we were
register our ideas by writing, we have already accepted and faced our response
to the situation.
Additionally, writing letters can have other benefits:
the strengthening of patience (a weakness in the era of immediacy); the possibility
to develop your discourse, thoughts and emotions, completely without being
interrupted; the opportunity of coming back and decide which part of your
emotion you are willing to share with your interlocutor, (letters offer the
amazing characteristic of not being heard or read until the emitter wants without
fading like thoughts...); among others. [One of the aims of this blogs is
stress the benefices of non-instant communication, so we will see more soon.]
So, the next time we are facing an
interpersonal or intrapersonal conflict, we may take some time-out in order to
vent our emotion whilst we are preserving them. Try not to jump in the
conclusions and not rush in sharing them, take your time to calm down things
before doing something that you may regret. I understand that in this era of
instant communication and messages is really easy to communicate our thoughts
with the world but big things take some time to be built. Thus, please, do not
fight through What’sApp of Facebook messages, 70% of the communication is
non-verbal and if verbal communication is not available, take your time to
expose clearly and completely your reasoning.
I wish you fruitful interactions!!
Thanks for reading.
PS. Any comment you want to share, mistake you
detect, or idea that is unclear, please communicate it through the comments or
emailing me at: carlosdancing@gmail.com
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