How Your Senses Can Affect Your Emotions
Did you know that your senses can affect your emotions and moods? Smells, sounds, colors and even daylight have a direct impact on your behavior.
The alarm sounds. You try to open your eyes, but you do not know why it is so difficult. You are unable to form a single thought or idea. Finally you get up, open the window and look outside. The sky is gray. How do you feel?
The alarm sounds. You open your eyes eagerly. Today will be a good day, you can feel it. You have so many plans. You jump up, open the window and look out. The sun is shining. The light is spectacular. How do you feel?
Weather. Light. Smells. Sounds. All of this can affect your mood and emotions. Think about how you dress when you feel sad. It is common to have dark colors such as gray, brown and black. Now think of happy moments. Everything is colorful. Orange, yellow, green, blue.
Smells and sounds can evoke emotions
An odor can transport you for a moment from your childhood , to the cake your mother made for your birthday. A song can remind you of a special person, the first dance, the first kiss. One song can evoke happy memories, and others not so happy memories.
Your mood in the morning, the colors you wear, the memories you have, the way you behave… everything is related to the feelings you feel.
Contrary to how it may seem, all of these feelings are good. But you can give them a positive or negative spin, depending on how you feel.
It is natural that sometimes you do not want people around you to know how you really feel, and you mask your feelings so that you do not look so vulnerable or sad. And other times you unknowingly deceive your true feelings. In any case, use armor to protect yourself from being injured.
But you know what? If the people who love you do not know how you feel, they will not be able to help you. And if you do not ask for help, they will not be able to help you either.
Maybe you were taught not to ask for anything, to be self-sufficient. So when you’re in a situation that you do not know how to fix, you do not know how to ask for help, or you do not dare. But asking for help is not a bad thing. On the contrary, it brings you closer to the people you love. When you do, you tell them you trust them. And the people who love you also have feelings.
Imagine what it would be like to feel happy every day
Emotional control is learned. For example, if you feel sad, you can change your mood by wearing happy colors. If you feel depressed, listen to a rhythmic song that makes you dance. Break down your walls and change your attitude, and the circumstances you live in will be in your own hands. You have the power to decide how you want the day to go.
In a story by Jorge Bucay, sadness and rage bathe in a magical pond. Rage, which is always in a hurry, bathes quickly and leaves the pond. It takes on the clothes, but because it can not see reality very clearly, it does not realize that it was actually clothes of sadness.
So when sadness comes out of the water, slowly and unaware of how much time has passed, it realizes that the clothes are not there, so there is nothing to do but take on the rage of their clothes instead.
So remember that just as you would sometimes hide your feelings behind a mask, other people do the same.
Knowing how to control your emotions is not always easy
When you get angry in an argument with your partner or a friend, remember that they can hide their true feelings behind their words. Their cries can only be a way of indicating how bad they feel, without expressing it out loud.
Learning to understand others is a sign of wisdom. And you can do that if you stop to think about what certain emotions mean to you and how they affect you when you think of a particular memory or listen to a particular song.
It is up to you to decide how you want the day to go. And remember that happiness is also learned.
