Why We Shouldn't Run Away From Uncomfortable Emotions

Research shows that acknowledging those feelings and dealing with them can bring us closer to the happiness we seek. These days are negative emotions can spring from so many different sources. We have these brains that spontaneously start to ruminate about the bad things that are going to happen in the future or have happened in the past. By definition negative emotions don't feel good right? That's why we call them negative emotions. But the act of running away from our negative emotions winds up making them worse.