Many a time, I said our ultimate aim in life is happiness. In fact, I posted an article “How to gain happiness?”

You can learn more ways to achieve real happiness if you read this article.   

What's emodiversity?

Emodiversity defines our ability to be able to feel and experience a wide range of emotions – the more the better. Learning to allow yourself to experience each feeling without blocking or denying them is a real advantage that will help you adapt to any situation in life. This will help you become more authentic and achieve real happiness.

Why should we be embracing our negative emotions? 

In nature, the more diverse an ecosystem is, the stronger, richer, and more resilient it is. Emodiversity follows that same principle. The more varied your palette of emotions, the greater your flexibility and strength. If you can understand this world without losing yourself in the extremes, then you’re investing in your health. As a result of this, you’ll become more intelligent and mature.

If we think about it, society promotes the idea that, in order to achieve well-being, you must only experience positive emotions. Most self-help books affirm the same principle. Something like that leads you, almost without realizing it, to a King Arthur-like journey in search of the holy grail of happiness. A holy grail that will, supposedly, help you avoid sadness, disappointment, frustration, or anger at all costs.

Understanding the enemy

People forget that there’s no better strategy than understanding their enemy. If you try to flee from negative emotions, you put a blindfold over your eyes. You deny yourself a chance to learn how to acquire greater resources to deal with any circumstances that life throws at you.

Life, like your emotions, is diverse and highly complex.

Only those who allow themselves to understand their feelings and emotions in a deeper way will better adapt to the fluctuations of everyday life.

We’ve been conditioned to believe that negative feelings are an enemy of well-being. Many people think that those who go from happy to angry or depressed to hopeful on the same day are unstable and even fickle. It’s time to clarify all of this. It’s time to learn about the benefits of emodiversity for your mental health.

Dismantling happiness

To learn how to be happy you must, so to speak, press the reset button on your “mental hard drive”. You need to start deleting much of what you’ve been told so far. In effect, you have to “unlearn” it.

The first idea you need to assimilate is that negative emotions aren’t harmful. Every time you feel and accept an emotion, you’re committing to dealing with it. You’re making a commitment to trying to understand yourself and accept what’s happening. Them, you’ll be responsible for looking for solutions or creating changes.

The second aspect you need to “program” into your mind is that, by allowing yourself to experience as many emotions as possible, you’re boosting your emotional resistance. This will be beneficial for your mental health and psychological abilities.

In conclusion, those who only consider positive emotions will always lack the tools to deal with difficulties and frustrations. Likewise, those who dwell on negative emotions will be at a greater risk of developing depression and anxiety disorders.