I teach emotional regulation skills to children and
teenagers.
One of the lessons I teach is that all emotions are good
because emotions serve a purpose.
They let us know when something isn’t right.
I was watching the Esther and Jerry Hicks yesterday and
Esther had said something along the lines of: we want you to feel the pain. She
argues that a person who uses some type of drug to avoid feeling the pain of
touching a hot stove wouldn’t be a good thing. She points out that feeling the
hot stove lets us know it isn’t good.
Today, I read an interesting article about a woman who is
not able to register fear. As a result, she has put herself into harmful
situations. Our ancestors who lacked fear were more likely to have been killed.
In example: a person with a healthy fear of poisons snakes would take more
precautions to avoid being killed by one. A person who lacks the fear of poisons
snakes might make the mistake of being less cautions and as a result: get bit
and possibly die.
Here is the article on the woman who does not feel fear:
Here is another story of a girl who does not feel pain and
as a result has had many injuries:
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