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How Do Many Adults Approach Emotions

Typically, humans are scared of emotions. Most of us were raised without an ability to befriend our emotions. Rather, they are seen as an unnecessary inconvenience. Ultimately, emotions are useful indicators of who we are and the world around us.

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much of that carries over from adult interactions to adult kid interactions? Where, I mean, as you were saying that it struck me that there's a lot of adults who deal with sort of the adult version of those sort of examples that you brought up in the same way in terms of being dismissive about other people's opinion or are telling them, you know, Don't worry, it'll be okay.

It's not that big of a deal, but it is a big deal to the persons who were almost practicing on a daily basis, the opposite of what you're talking about.

You know, humans. Humans are scared of emotion. Mostly they don't have to be. Not all humans all but most of us were not raised to be to be able to be friends or motions and ed best. We see them as a necessary inconvenience. The truth is, emotions or useful emotions are indicators of something an indicator off something that matters to us or some place we need to grow or some place we need to change or something we want to change in the world around us.

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