Are Emotions Really That Important? Teaching Children How to Deal With Negative Emotions

Consider events in your life that have generated an emotion within you. Events generate emotion because you care about the outcome. The emotion prepares you for action; consider how differently you approach a situation based on your emotional investment -happiness leads you to approach a situation, sadness to passively withdraw. An emotion can be considered an expression of your readiness to establish, maintain, or change your relation to the environment on a matter of importance to you. Adults and children alike, develop strong feelings about certain events for a variety of different reasons: A sensation or state of mind - any sight, sound, taste, smell, touch, memory or imagining can become personally relevant, yielding a positive emotion if it is pleasant and negative emotion, if unpleasant. Other people's social behavior may alter a situation's significance. You or your child may have a goal in mind, like doing well on a test, and the test situation prompts strong emotion. According to Functionalist theories of child development, Emotions are central to all aspects of human activity: Social behavior Physical health Cognitive processing Should you take the time to teach your kids how to use a technique they can use when they begin to feel overwhelmed by emotions? Yes! Why is emotional stability and stress-relief so important for your child's well-being and over all health? Persistent psychological stress is associated with a variety of health difficulties from infancy, childhood and into adulthood. Stress elevates heart rate and blood pressure and depresses the immune system, reactions that explain its relationship with cardiovascular disease, infectious illness, and several forms of cancer. Stress also reduces digestive activity, as blood flows away from the stomach, the brain, and the heart and instead flows to the extremities to mobilize for action. Consequently, this can cause gastrointestinal difficulties, including constipation, diarrhea, colitis, and ulcers. Herein lays the value of a relatively new acupressure-based healing modality called Emotional Freedom Techniques (known as EFT for short). Solely based on the benefits of stress reduction alone, Emotional Freedom Techniques is worth learning, applying to your children, and teaching your children how to use. Once memorized the entire EFT procedure takes only a few minutes to do, and could spare both you and your children mountains of aggravation. EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Techniques and it is based on the premise that unresolved emotions can compromise our potential for happiness. Combining this emotional element with the ancient principles of acupressure and acupuncture, EFT can effectively address the cause of disruptions in your body's flow of energy by gently tapping on a key series of acupoints on your body, using the fingertips. How does EFT work? Adults and children alike have energy meridians that run through their bodies - these can be blocked or disrupted by unresolved emotional issues, compromising our natural healing potential. Quite often, people are aware of the events or action that trigger emotional discomfort in their children lives, but haven't yet connected those events to the crying, outbursts, and tantrums that children often display. Using EFT, it is possible to revisit the event(s) in question, and balance the disturbed meridians. Properly done, both emotional anguish and the physical symptoms often subside. Many injuries, including sports injuries, tend to heal faster when EFT is part of the healing protocol. Although based on acupuncture, EFT has simplified the realignment process by gently tapping or rubbing on key meridian points on the head, torso and hands. Basic EFT applications focus on issues being experienced in the current moment. A "Set-Up Statement" is developed using simple language designed not only to hold focus, but also to add self-acceptance to the process. For example, a mom trying to address their child's fear of spiders might have their child say "Even though I have this horrible fear of spiders, I'm a great kid and my mom really loves me" while tapping through a series of acupoints. If this initial procedure provides significant relief, then applying the basic EFT procedure can be very effective. If the fear hasn't vanished after the initial realignment, subsequent applications would focus on specific aspects of their child's fear, i.e. the spider's furry legs, the way it scurries, and various other parts of the child's perception of spiders. Furthermore, healthy belief changes often occur as the energy meridians come into balance. An abused child, for example, may experience a belief shift from "My father hates me" to the healthier, "Dad doesn't know how to love. He needs help." Along with this more peaceful attitude, physical symptoms often subside. There are several features that set EFT apart from other such healing procedures. For example, it employs one basic tapping routine that is effective for both physical and emotional issues. That's why diverse audiences can achieve high percentage results even though each member may be addressing a different issue. Also, EFT's results are often long term. Once all aspects of a particular issue are addressed, the process most often does not need to be repeated. Advanced EFT application can enhance the results significantly, and is usually necessary for more complicated cases; finding an Advanced Practitioner of EFT to help you, will allow your entire family to take advantage of the full spectrum of benefits EFT offers.

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