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In my experience, both professionally in listening to literally
hundreds of people within my therapeutic practice, spanning
26 years, as well as personally within my own life
circumstances, central to this possibility is the relationship
between our mind and our emotions.

There is a direct relationship between the way that we think
and the way that we feel. Our mind and our emotions affect
and influence one another.

If our thoughts are negative and bleak it will affect the way
that we feel; negative thoughts will generate negative and
challenging emotions. Likewise, if we are feeling unhappy or
low this will colour our thoughts and our perceptions and we
will be far more likely to perceive situations and indeed other
people with negative expectations.

However logical we may think that we are, our emotions are
always in play, unseen and often unacknowledged.

We have a continual emotional interaction with whatever’s
going on around us, as well as an emotional response to this
and one of the greatest challenges that we face at times of
difficulty is how to manage the intense emotions that arise.

Even on an everyday basis, our emotions can sometimes
prove to be confusing and hard to understand. If our mind
hasn’t learned to identify and to understand our emotions,
then any kind of intense emotionally-laden experience will
present us with a potential difficulty. We won’t know how to
interpret the way that we are feeling, and how to handle
ourselves in that moment.

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