In this video, I continue talking about emotions and how to handle them with a focus on sadness.
You can review the other videos in the series below:
Sadness, just like the other emotions, also deals with three triggers:
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- Space.
- Time.
- Your experience or how you interact with both time and space.
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Emotions and how they can affect you
An emotion can turn into a mood, which is a temporary feeling as a response to what has just happened to you.
When you don’t control your mood, it can become an attitude, which represents a settled way of thinking.
An attitude transforms into a personality when this way of thinking becomes a part of who you are.
Dealing with emotion right away after it happens is always the best approach to take. When you allow it to linger for a longer period of time in you, it can evade your belief system, and eventually your values.
In other words, it takes over you and makes you do what this emotion wants.
As a result, if this is a negative emotion or feeling, which is taking over you, it is going to affect you and your environment (surroundings).
In the case of sadness, this situation may lead to depression:
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- You lose interest in the things you should always love.
- You lose motivation.
- You disconnect from people and the community. Living isolated from others is an ingredient to a lot of harm (personal).
- You hate everyone and everything.
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That’s not who God made you to be!
Read 2 Corinthians 3.
There are two things you find in that Scripture, which speak of who God is for people who experience sadness:
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- God is the Father of all mercies and God of comfort.
- Comfort is God’s calling you to something or somebody.
- God calls you to pay attention to yourself.
- God calls you to share God’s comfort with somebody else.
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In conclusion
If you’re experiencing sadness, talk to God and talk to somebody. Don’t let it linger longer in you with the fear that it affects you and the people in your life.
