Negative Emotions are Key to Well-Being

The customer sat down in front of me and asked for help to solve his relationship problem. As a psychotherapist, I will endeavor to be encouraged warmly and irresponsibly. Then when I explained his painful experience, he said, "I am sorry that I am very negative."

Indeed, anger and sadness are important elements of life, and new emotions indicate that experiencing and accepting this emotion is important to our mental health. Trying to suppress ideas, it becomes anti-productive and even the feeling of satisfaction may decline. Jonathan M. Adler, psychologist at Franklin W. Olin Institute of Technology, says:

Of course, positive thoughts and emotions may help mental health. Pleasure theory defines happiness as the existence of positive emotions, the relative lack of negative emotions and satisfaction of life. However, in extreme terms, this definition is inconsistent with real mess. Also see the author's prospects. [They ignore the danger or become beautiful to be self-satisfied. Scott O. Lilienfeld and Hull Arkowitz, Scientific · American Mind, in May 2011, "Are you thinking you can do a negative minus positively?" / June]

On the other hand, the Eudaemonic approach emphasizes the sense of meaning, personal growth, and the understanding of self goal objectives that need to face adversity of life. Unpleasant emotions are as important as helping to understand the pleasures of life. "Remember, one of the main reasons we feel emotionally for the first time is to help us evaluate our experience," Adler said.

Adler and Hal E. Hershfield, professors of marketing at New York University, were a group of twelve psychotherapists who studied the relationship between mixed emotional experiences and psychological well-being.

"This is an organization that had a major negative impact on four of the six aspects that constitute the purity of Eudimonia and the quality of life of society, which hurts emotional health, which makes people more unhappy and unhappy By narrowing social well - being, not knowledge, reason, fact, but ultimately believing in erroneous information or erroneous information, eventually loneliness, reliability declines and it becomes distant It is a civic It infringes happiness - it threatens democracy - your organization is a net loss of society from the viewpoint of happiness, it will increase the financial economy but narrow the interests of mankind.

Under the guidance of Thomas Joiner, I made a preliminary prospective test of this hypothesis. In other words, through cognitive spread, positive emotions create upward spirals to enhance emotional health. We evaluated positive emotions and negative emotions at two time points (5 weeks interval). A wide range of countermeasures will be used in projects such as "thinking about various ways to deal with problems" and "getting out of the situation, becoming more objective". Our data shows clear evidence that there is a spiral upward trend. Individuals who have experienced a more positive emotion compared to others will more easily adapt to adversity over time as pointed out by a broad response increase. In other words, these enhanced coping skills predict positive emotions over time (Fredrickson & Joiner, 2000)