Do our emotions dictate our lives or do our lives dictate our emotions? Discuss. ECOTRAIN QOTW

The question in question is a bit like the old paradox of who came first: the hen or the egg? And when emotions are frayed, irremediably, we are weaving life.

Our emotions condition many of our behaviors, but they do not constitute life. Life goes beyond, our being grows and expresses itself in different ways.

Of course, an important part depends on emotional healing. It is not easy to spread the wings with a stones sack tied to the feet. Hence, the relevance of caring for and understanding emotions. They can raise or sink us, according to many factors.

It is widely known that negative emotions lead to states of apathy, insecurity, low self-esteem, depression and even death, if professional help is not received. Many times, attention to emotions is neglected and is not considered to affect health as much as any physical illness. However, nowadays, and despite the reluctance of many people, it is considered that misguided emotions can generate critical illnesses that require medical attention, treatment and therapy.

The issue is that because they are not physical ailments, the affected person does not seek medical help, because even in these times it is still an affront to go to specialists in psychiatry, psychology and the like, without being labeled as "crazy". Then, we see with unusual normality how life is affected by emotions and it is reduced to episodes that depend on how much mastery is achieved in one's feelings and emotions or if the importance of attending and healing our emotions is brought to consciousness.

The power to provide a good life has roots both in the upbringing and in the clarity of objectives that each person draws, but, there is an implicit genetic component that, although it is not determinant, can influence the way of relating to the world and the people, to develop the life. It is potentially feasible to have a good life, with ups and downs, as is usually normal, knowing how to use emotional intelligence. Understand personal feelings, recognize them, value them and direct them to manage our overall wellbeing and relationships with oneself and with our world.

Everything that explores our creative capacity will be successful if we focus our being and energy. But not only that, someone who puts into practice skills to understand feelings and emotions is able to recognize the attack of negative emotions and deal with psychological resources of their own. In addition, it has the advantage of being able to better understand others by putting on the "other's shoes", it uses criticism as an opportunity for growth because it analyzes and learns from them, it has internal resources to deal with adversities and setbacks; as well as, how to properly channel negative emotions, has a greater capacity to be happy.

Positive emotions attract the positive for life, it is a simple attraction that becomes a matter of attitude to undertake life and not get carried away by it. But, we must educate the perspective of observing the world, because, as they say, "it is not the same to look at a glass half full, than to look at it half empty". In the same circumstances, people react in accordance with their balance or emotional imbalance and the "backpack" they carry on their backs. Life is not perfect, but if we live conscious that we are human beings capable of intervening and improving our environment, we can approach fulfillment, satisfaction, happiness.

So ... To a higher quality of emotions, better life? o A better quality of life, better emotions? I think they are interdependent. Definitely, it is not a simple disparity of processes, but a braid that links our potential and our limitations to grow, instead of aging, and live in the here and now with acceptance and love.