When people go through a stage of emotional instability, or live with consistent emotional instability, they:
1.) Don’t accept the current emotion as unfactual or biased. They typically believe the current emotion is authoritative, factual, and credible; thus acting on it without assessment and in complete determination. The emotion drives their belief.
2.) Don’t listen to others attentively, calmly, and completely. They are completely immersed in their emotions or being so impacted by an emotion that they are unable to listen to another person. The emotion (and its energy) is deafening to them.
3.) Don’t separate themselves from the emotion. Instead of removing themselves from the emotion, they allow it to rule every aspect of their life at that moment. In other words, they identify with the emotion and the feelings that the emotion cause. They don’t realize that feelings aren’t facts; so, they and the emotion become one.
4.) Don’t live at peace with themselves. The emotions take up so much room in their minds, hearts, and bodies (yes, the emotions are stored as stresses in the physical body), that they cannot be at ease.
5.) Don’t take care of themselves to the best of their ability. Emotionally unstable individuals spend a lot of energy on attempting to release or contain adverse emotions. This is exhausting and doesn’t allow energy to be left over for restoring health, body, and mind. Sleep, tension, breathing, and blood pressure are negatively impacted as a result.
Being ruled by emotion is unhealthy. Keep in mind that feelings are not facts.
If you are experiencing negative emotions (anger, depression, anxiety, frustration, pity, shame, guilt, etc)…be mindful of the thoughts that support the emotion.
Observe all thoughts that conjoin with the emotion, and remember that you are not your thoughts.
