{"id":8257,"date":"2024-11-18T02:49:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T02:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=8257"},"modified":"2024-11-18T02:52:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T02:52:01","slug":"emotions-an-inevitable-part-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=8257","title":{"rendered":"Emotions: An inevitable part of living"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t ever want to feel sad&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>What a wishful thinking, I reckon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t too long ago that I realised not wanting to feel an emotion is never a &#8216;good&#8217; option. As a bandaid option, yes, sounds great. However, will that feeling come back to haunt you sometime later in life, in a different setting, in a different way? <br><em>Probably yes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do you deal with a wind-whirl of feelings and emotions that come hitting you across your face, with an increasing pain in your stomach that doesn&#8217;t resemble butterflies anymore, and an aching, sharp, deafening sound that leaves you hearing your own heartbeat? <br><em>It sounds scary and overwhelming.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From these life classes, I take back one thing &#8211; ways to manage my emotions: <em>Acceptance<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acceptance comes in various forms &#8211; maybe in search of truth, maybe through the learnings of Buddha, or maybe through therapy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My form is acceptance? <br><strong>Therapy!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When discussing these unsettling emotions, I have a nerve to discuss something pleasant <em>(my way to deal with discomfort, I guess?)<\/em>. Love, no? I mean, the two days of life classes were dedicated to <em>this<\/em> very emotion. Love in every form &#8211; be it familial, platonic or romantic. However, something I really enjoyed was knowing what this particular class has done crazy in love. There&#8217;s something mischievous, flirty and innocent in sharing what each of us has done to express the extent of love we feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Abrupt ending &#8211; thanks. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t ever want to feel sad&#8230;&#8221; What a wishful thinking, I reckon. It wasn&#8217;t too long ago that I realised not wanting to feel an emotion is never a &#8216;good&#8217; option. As a bandaid option, yes, sounds great. However, will that feeling come back to haunt you sometime later in life, in a different setting, in a different way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,3],"tags":[45,19],"class_list":["post-8257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-habits-love","category-love-class","tag-7habits","tag-love-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8260,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257\/revisions\/8260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}