Teen Counseling & Therapy Services
Does your teenager need counseling or therapy? Is your teenager struggling with mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, stress, or ADHD? Are they having a hard time with school or figuring out their college or career path? Then it might be time to get them some help.
Negative emotions are the result of judging or labelling something as bad. For example some cultures celebrate death as the climax of life, another step on the journey of life for teenagers, and we see it as the worst so we cry or feel sad of the loss. If we understand or change the perspective, our emotions become positive, its alchemy.
Meditating on emotions usually brings me a strange joy. It like you kind of enjoy being sad or angry, you taste the flavor of the emotion and really appreciate it. A key point to is not to identify with the emotion. In my opinion living a passionate life is about really feeling all the emotions that you encounter, fully experience them and let them pass.
From my experience of physical and mental abuse in family and in social life when I was a kid and I noticed that was just too much for my brain so it shut down. Everyone gets negative emotions but as a kid your brain just develops and after it gets smacked hard it can freeze on particular state even for life.
And I noticed weird thing recently. After years of meditation and working on my fears I am pretty confident right now. But when I meet an old colleague my mind got to this freeze mode again for the time when he was around.
Attachment to outcomes or expectations seems to be the problem that causes negative emotion. Feeling the emotion would justify the labeling or schema that produced the negative emotion in the first place. Wouldn't it be better to practice self control, non-attachment and acceptance rather than trying to feel the feelings that our more limiting ideas produce? I say this because greater understanding make negative emotions disappear.
I started out in an incredibly dysfunctional place in high school when I found this channel and after years of work on myself I am better than I've ever been and am now discovering my purpose, and it's along the lines of psychology and personal development. And of course, I am now beginning to understand how long this road is, and looking forward to traveling it.