VALUE OF EMOTIONS IN LIFE
Emotions
are indeed very much valuable. But many have a very different view,, for them emotions are not at all important, rather feeling emotional
or giving heed to feelings is a sheer waste of time. They feel emotions make
them weak and come in their way towards success.
But
reality is entirely different, emotions play a very vital role in our life and
affect how we think, act, react and behave. Without emotions life would be
meaningless and one would be no less than machines surrounded by other
machines. Also without emotions our achievements would mean nothing, as we
would not feel anything.
Let us see how much value emotions carry in our life:
EMOTIONS ARE IMPORTANT FOR SURVIVAL
Emotions
help us survive and enable us to tackle different situations of danger. When in
danger we develop fear and thus we try to either avoid the threat imposed or
fight it out. Emotions motivate and direct us to act quickly and just in time,
to increase our chances of survival and enable us to have an improved life.
EMOTIONS GIVE US IDENTITY
Emotions
differentiate us from animals and machines. They make us human by giving us
various characteristics. Emotions not only categorise us as human beings but
make every individual different from other individuals. They give a specific
meaning to one’s life.
HELPS IN PREDICTING AND UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
Emotions
help us in understanding what others are feeling and how they will react and
behave to any particular situation. Rather they make us empathetic towards
others and we can in better way connect with them and have a better
understanding about their life and circumstances.
HELPS IN COMMUNICATING WITH OTHERS
Although
we communicate verbally but body language, facial expressions and our gestures
depend upon our mood and feelings. Our gestures convey a wide variety of
emotions to others and thus affect communication. Also looking at others we can
have an idea about their emotional state i.e. whether they are happy or
sad.
EMOTIONS HELPS IN UNITING US
Our
emotions are expressions of what we are feeling like happy, sad, afraid, angry
etc. and these emotions help in uniting us with other people specially like
happy people easily become part of a group. Also we can say that people with
similar feelings also connect together. Emotions like compassion, empathy,
happiness, kindness etc. help in creating unity amongst people.
EMOTIONS INFLUENCE DECISION MAKING
Emotions do have a
great effect on how we make decisions. Whatever we decide depend greatly upon
how we are feeling at that very moment. For e.g. what we want to eat mostly
depends on how we feel like whenever we feel happy we like to have sweets.
Although most have a feeling that it is logic and practicality which effects decision making
but also emotions play a critical role in our decisions. Like many say follow your
gut or listen to what heart says whenever you are struck in any situation and
i.e. nothing but what you feel internally.
Even anger has a
strong effect on our ability to decide as anger gives confidence and one may
even opt for difficult solutions. Also it is seen in times of election
political parties use anger amongst people to make them against other party by
showing their drawbacks and thus making them loyal towards their party. Sad
feeling also has a great effect as it leads to continuous thinking and thus
better understanding of the situation.
EMOTIONS HELP OTHERS IN UNDERSTANDING US AND HELP US IN UNDERSTANDING OTHERS
Emotions
by way of gestures, expressions and various facial cues help others in
understanding us and our feelings. Our emotions help us in a way by telling our
feelings to others , specially in times of sadness anger and fear, our friends and
family to take good care of us and thus making us feel better. Just like our
feelings helps others know us better in the same manner feelings of others as
depicted on their face and as reflected by their body help us in understanding
others and thus help us in strengthening our relationships.
This
understanding of own feelings and those of others is also known as emotional
intelligence. This terminology is recently becoming very famous especially on a
professional front. (I will be discussing more about emotional intelligence in
my subsequent blogs)
EMOTIONS motivates to act
Feeling
of stress and anxiety many a times motivates us to work hard. Feeling of fear
enable us to take steps to keep ourselves safe and with safe people. Also we
tend to avoid those things and those situations which make us feel sad,
depressed or negative. Like ways to reduce stress mostly people opt for
adventure trips, hobbies etc to rejuvenate self and become more positive and
stress-free.
In the end I would say that
emotions play a very critical role in our lives. Emotions most importantly help
us in connecting with the society and also keep us safe thus fulfilling the
most important needs of being accepted by the society and safety. Emotions vary
from positive to negative, strong to weak, happy to sad, motivating to
depressing. But each emotion serves variety of purposes and has a special
significance in our everyday lives.
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