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Learning how to express yourself in a healthy way can be a wonderful way…
Learning how to express yourself in a healthy way can be a wonderful way to live an authentic, more fulfilling life.
LISTEN TO YOURSELF
Self expression, which is the ability to communicate and demonstrate your feelings honestly, is an important factor in embarking on the journey of finding out who you really are.
You can start finding who you are by listening to yourself, how you feel, and how you want to react to a situation. This can get you more in tune with your feelings and emotions, helping you begin to express yourself.
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JOURNALLING!
Start a feelings journal. Start keeping track of your emotions in feelings journal, which can be a small notebook or on your mobile device.
Try to stay out of your thoughts as your create your feelings journal and stay focused on your body's response. This will help you start to become more connected to how you really feel instead of just brushing emotions aside.
Own your emotions. You may be in the habit of telling yourself that you’re just being silly for feeling a certain way.
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As you become more accustomed to recognizing your body’s response to emotions, it will be more difficult to just shrug off emotions.
Your body is responding for a reason, and it is important to validate that. Get out your journal and start keeping a log of all the different feelings you had that day.
Write down how you want to express yourself. To better express yourself emotionally every day, write down how you want to handle each situation. Then you can do practice runs of how you would like to act in certain situations. Using a boss or authority figure as an example again, start writing out exactly what you would like to say to then. Don't edit yourself and make it as raw and as graphic as you like.
If you saw something that day that made you sad, such as someone in distress or a lost animal, write out your uncensored sadness in your journal. Also continue to notice how your body physically responds
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