We all experience painful emotions at times in our lives. Sometimes they are so intense that we think we will never get over them. Emotions such as worry, anxiety, fear, pain, anger, disappointment, despair, guilt, inadequacy, overload, loneliness.

Emotions that most people try to avoid. But at what cost..

In order not to feel inadequacy, we may never try to achieve something great. Thus we condemn ourselves to never feel the satisfaction, the joy of creation and achievement.

In order not to experience rejection and the pain that may be associated with it, we may not feel the love and affection with the person we would like.

So by avoiding experiencing painful emotions, we avoid experiencing their opposite, wonderful emotions.

If these painful emotions arise, some people tolerate them or, worse, deny that they feel them. Perhaps some even use them to show how bad or difficult they are going through.

However, none of the above behaviors and ways of managing these emotions bring the desired result, which is none other than to feel better or change our emotional state.

The source of our emotions is ourselves. We create emotions within ourselves and what we feel at any given moment of our lives depends on the meaning we give to an experience we are experiencing and how we reproduce this experience in our mind will determine how we feel.

Each of us has set some rules, some criteria in operation for what we want to happen.

So our emotions are messengers of clear messages.

FEAR

Fear is an emotion that we have all experienced, perhaps in varying degrees. From worry, anxiety, anguish, panic, to terror, all of these emotions fall under the umbrella of fear.

The message of fear is that we must prepare ourselves to face an upcoming situation or change it.

Do we need to change the way we have been doing things so far, that is, our plan of action? Do we need to change the way we communicate what concerns us and scares us?

Do we need to change the way we see the situation?

Fear is a bell to action. If we receive the message and make the necessary change, then it will have done its job and will subside.

However, there are also people who, while they have prepared in the best way, continue to feel fear. In this case, we need to use the antidote to fear, which is Faith.

To believe in themselves and also to believe that our fears rarely come true.