Emotional Health:
A Safe Place for Your Mind Leads to Better Emotional Health
Emotions love to dominate our actions and reactions, even though we claim otherwise. Many societies and cultures often see emotions as a sign of weakness, so we are used to putting them aside and focusing on the rational aspects more and more. But no matter how strict and logical you want to be, you are not Mr. Spock, and so you will always feel.
Positive emotions are a lifelong goal for many of us concerned about emotional health. Ask yourself what is more important: how much money you made during your life, or how many times you laughed out of joy? Alas, people tend to put their positive emotions in the shadow of their negative feelings. This is one of the biggest problems we come across during our lives. There is no clear way to ignore a negative experience and try to replace it with a positive one. Life just doesn't work that way.
As a child, if your goldfish dies, you would be heartbroken. Your parents will probably buy you another goldfish, but the sorrow still remains. Things get even more complex with adults. A fight with your spouse the night before will affect your entire day. You will go to work angry, tired, and your mind will wander. On the way home from work you won't notice the sun shining and you won't be tempted to stop at a roadside stand to pick up some fresh fruits and vegetables. All this because that one negative thought has contaminated the way you perceive the reality around you.
In this moment you will realize finding a safe place to relax your mind will do wonders for your emotional health and happiness. And that place is relatively easy to find. It can be an actual place or an imaginary location. The best idea is to totally immerse yourself in it. Let's say you have a problem on your mind and it just won't go away. Go bowling! Don't know how, you say? No problem, just give it a shot! Get caught up in the game, think about those annoying shoes, choose a ball that strikes your fancy, invent new strategies to throw and so on. Your mind will suddenly leap from the negative thoughts that dominated your last hours or days and start processing a whole new kind of information.
A safe place can take many forms. It can be a song, a movie, even a person or animal. The main thing is allow yourself to get completely involved with this new activity. You might still get flashes of the problem every now and then - ignore it and get even more involved in what you are doing.
When the bowling game, the song, or the movie ends you will have a rather abrupt return to reality. You will probably want to retreat back to the safe place. Don't do it. The safe place exists only as a helping hand, not as a solution to your life's problems, little and large. It is there to help you relax your mind for a few minutes or hours - it is an escape route. You will return from your safe zone with an increased energy level. You will feel better about yourself and gain more confidence; you'll see that any issue can be resolved. This is how a small escape from a harsh reality can increase your emotional health energy and allow you to solve even the most difficult problems.
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