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We all have an inner dialogue or conversation that takes place
within our mind. If we are faced with intense emotions during
a challenging life experience and the kinds of conversation
that take place within our mind are encouraging, supportive,
mindful and compassionate this will help us to find our way
through any adversity.

However, if our internal dialogue is dismissive of our
emotions or judgmental and full of criticism, this will erode
our emotional durability, lower our confidence and
undermine our self-esteem, potentially generating even more
challenging emotions in what is already a stressful situation.

Our ability to listen primarily to ourselves is a core relational
skill, a skill that is fueled by the collaborative meeting of our
mind and our emotions. This in turn enables us to listen and
to relate with others.

Being emotionally healthy isn’t about being happy all of the
time.

The basis of emotional health is about being able to
understand and be responsive to our emotional experiences
and to be able to feel the full range of our emotions and for
our mind to remain at relative ease with this.

Even in adversity, it is through the meeting of our emotional
experience combined with reflective thought that we make
sense of our life experiences; in doing so we discover and we
develop meaning in life.

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