Strong emotions & emotionality

If you experience many & often strong emotions, this is usually caused by a (unconscious) weak spot in your sense of trust, self-esteem and/or safety. This can make you emotional imbalanced and susceptible to mood swings & emotional outbursts. Such a weak spot often arises in your youth and/or through disruptive events in your later life, which causes you to (unconsciously) look at yourself, other people & the world in an unbalanced way. This becomes a negative pattern, which causes you to lose your balance again and again.

You can unknowingly get in the habit of negatively translating situations & events & filling them in emotionally, which causes you to increasingly look through distorted emotional glasses. As a result, there often seems to be a lot going on, which can cause you to end up in a rollercoaster of feelings, thoughts & reactions every time and your emotionality seems justified. And that often causes reactions in others, to which you then react etc. etc.

Intense emotions & reactions

If those old wounds do not heal and if you do not learn to deal with the negative patterns that have arisen from them, they can continue to cause endless intense feelings, thoughts & dysfunctional behavior. Such a weak spot can continue to cause you many problems, without you understanding how & why. That confusion makes it even more difficult to get a grip on yourself, your feelings & reactions and causes even more imbalance - and not just with yourself.

Emotionality can take a considerable toll on yourself and others, because your emotions & reactions are not in proportion to the situation. You become so out of balance that your entire environment also becomes out of balance. Because anger, sadness, jealousy, distrust, despair, fear, helplessness & frustration etc. often have a lot of impact and often bring with them all possible complications, which makes it even more difficult to regain your balance - which in turn gives reason for even more negative thoughts, feelings & reactions.

Dealing with strong emotions

Because you often experience many & intense feelings disproportionately or even without a clearly identifiable cause, this can be very disruptive for yourself and for your sense of stability, safety, trust & self-esteem. Emotionality can unintentionally cause many problems & endless complications for yourself, in your relationships & at work etc. But also for the people around you your intense feelings & reactions can have a great impact on their sense of safety etc.

Emotionality often has a self-confirming and reinforcing element, because due to the intensity of your experience you produce large amounts of adrenaline & cortisol etc. and your nervous system & that of others is strongly & frequently under pressure, which in turn causes all side effects and many intense thoughts and yet other intense feelings. Which makes it feel as if it is really that intense & intense and it seems justified to react so strongly. Which often tempts others into an intense reaction - or even forces them.

To break this negative spiral, it is necessary to clarify and tackle the underlying causes of your emotionality, so that you can get a grip on yourself, find your balance again and stand firmer in your shoes. The Centrumpraktijk helps you to gain insight into your weak spots & negative patterns and gives you the practical tools to change these and to develop a different, better way of thinking, feeling & reacting, which gives more balance - and is much more effective & constructive.

Centrumpraktijk Haarlem
Email: info@centrumpraktijk.nl
Phone: +31 616 44 43 44

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