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back to CONTENTS A person with strong emotional wellbeing has a healthy inner ability to manage life on life’s terms. Whether it’s stress, financial problems, a relationship break-up, trauma, illness, a bereavement, they always seem to cope with everything in an admirable way. Being emotionally strong means having the right tools in your emotional toolbox – and knowing how to use these tools. WORDS DAVID HURST
MAJOR SIGNS OF STRONG EMOTIONAL WELLBEING
Z LEARN FROM MISTAKES Someone with emotional strength lives by the mantra: ‘There’s no such thing as a bad thing, only things to learn from.’ By looking at mistakes as learning exercises we save ourselves from the negative emotional impact of remorse, regret, anxiety and guilt. A person with healthy emotional wellbeing knows they can learn from anything – and so they keep on growing emotionally and getting stronger. From then on if something similar
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happens, they will increasingly and instinctively know the best way to handle it. This is for themselves as well as for anyone who seeks their guidance.
Z LET GO Knowing certain things are out of our control means that acceptance comes so much quicker. When we have acceptance, we can move on – and that means we’re not burning up with negative emotions trying to fix something or someone that is really out of our hands.
Emotionally strong people know that there is one thing that is always in their control. That’s our own attitude: how we respond to any situation. With greater energy due to not using it up on futile things, we will then have a clearer mind to deal with anything that is in our scope. This also means we will have more time to relax, which is another thing emotionally healthy people know they need to do every day. It will all make for better sleep too – and that clearly benefits our day-to-day emotional wellness.
