11/19/2025
You don’t have to believe or internalize everything you feel. Two quick notes to help you hold your emotions with more clarity and choice:
1. Emotions start as electrical signals — we’re the ones who assign the meaning.
Every feeling begins as a sensation in the brain and body. Your brain fires, your heart rate shifts, your stomach tightens… and then you decide (often automatically) what that sensation means.
Take anxiety as an example: the same activation in your system could be labeled “danger,” but it could also be labeled “focus,” “determination,” or “I care about this.”
This is called reappraisal — giving the sensation a different, more accurate meaning.
And when you shift the meaning, you shift the experience.
Anxiety interpreted as “I’m overwhelmed” lands one way.
Anxiety interpreted as “my body gearing up for something important” feels completely different.
2. We also don’t want to live only in our heads.
Feelings matter. The body communicates constantly.
The goal isn’t to dismiss your emotions — it’s to create space around them.
Pause. Notice what’s happening in your body. Be curious, not judgmental.
You can acknowledge the sensation without automatically declaring it truth.
This is how you stay grounded instead of getting pulled into every thought or feeling that shows up.
You get to decide what your emotions mean and you get to choose how you respond. And you’re allowed to create enough space to understand what your body is actually trying to say before handing it the steering wheel.
