Emotions are beautiful and complicated. In our lives, there are emotions we love to feel and there are emotions that we tend to avoid. The avoidance of certain emotions can be conscious and purposeful or the avoidance can be subconscious, when we don’t even realize we are doing it. As we were growing up we may have learned or been taught that certain feelings and emotions are “bad” or “wrong.”

The truth is that there are no bad emotions. However, the unhealthy manifestation of emotions is when they are directed toward or taken out on others. It is the action, which results from the emotion that we need to be mindful of. This is true for both the emotions we avoid as well as for those emotions we love.