Why What We Feel Matters More Than What We Think. | Natasha Sharma | TEDxStMaryCSSchool

" Don't run away from your negative emotions.Don't distract yourself and figure out ways that you didn't have to deal with them.Insted, sit with them.Let yourself feel them.Don't push them aside.Make yourself get acquainted with them.Become friends with them.Take the longest walks of your life or even turn down invitations to go out with people and stay home at Saturday night so that you could sit alone in the silence of your own thoughts." WELL SAID !!!

"love, hate and fear will drive your decisions more than any other emotion"

Everyone needs love and connection. No matter how hard it may be to accept. And the world would be a better place if we have the courage to be vulnerable enough to accept it. Many times if we have been hurt it's hard to open up to people, but it's worth it.

This is a really great talk. While most “self help” encourages readers/listeners to resolve issues by being logical, this video [correctly] points out that this is largely not effective because most of our big decisions aren’t driven by logic but by emotion. Thanks for the wonderful talk highlighting the importance (and lack of) emotional health in our world today.

Even if you fall flat on your face its better to try and see if it will work out than to live in fear and with the weighty regret of not even trying.... Don't let fear stifle your dreams, let love propel them into your reality. Thank you Natasha

I know what many people don't realize and that is intelligence is linked to emotional intensity. The more intelligent someone is, in general the more emotional they are. Not always, but a lot of the time.

Amazing...I've come a long long way from depression and this just brings clarity for me.

Beautiful talk. This was amazing. Please come up with more of these kind. This was really short.

So, "negative emotions" aren't negativ, they are unpleasant but very valuable.

there is just a few people that talk into this theme wisely like you.. thank you

1/Be mindful that there are people who are driven,not by the need to be loved,but by love! 2/Fear is an emotion that drives reaction 3/Linking fear with hate is too general a statement. People may hate the fact that they have an irrational fear,what is called a phobias. Refusing to admit or face that fear, usually leads to the rationalisation of that emotion as hate. "I hate flying" does not really mean that fear of flying has morphed into hatred of flying!

Thank you for making this message about emotional fitness & that sitting with your emotions & reflecting is helping you to understand yourself. It's something I've done since I was a child, but also stopped when I felt it was too much of the negative ones. So this is kind of encouraging to hear.

this is the best talk ever! thank you so much. I'm in my 40's &soul searching this really helped :)

All you need to increase accuracy of respond is clarity of perception, just take the time to see, hear and meet, without being reckless, so you can see others as they are, not as you are.

Love is connection, hate is a corrupted perspective and fear is ignorance.

1. Love: it is desirable to be loved and it can make you happy but dont take it to extreme. You dont always need love to be happy. 2. Hate/Anger: hate and anger has its value, but dont get stuck into it. Sometimes things're not fair and you have to let it go, because the world is not a just or equal place all the time. If we understand this, a great weight is lifted off us. 3. Fear: sometimes we remain in misery because we are terrified. It motivates us to inaction. You cant think your way out of fear, you have face it and act on it. You have to confront the fear in order to get over it. Hope, excitement and confidence are the emotions to live by. Emotions rule, so learn to rule your emotions.

Wow this is eerie....Everything she talked about at 11:50-13:06 happened to me! I wrote in my journal about this a few days ago exactly the way she explained it and now I'm seeing it here! After college I hit my ultimate low. Growing up I was taught that emotions are a sign of weakness and we never got to talk about them. Anything I ever felt I would suppress. During my low point, I was severely depressed and crying all the time. I was so confused because I never felt so much emotion and I had no idea why this was happening or what to do about it. After about 2-3 years of feeling that I FINALLY, a few days ago, found out about who I am and what my needs are. Just like she said, I wrote down in my journal how I suddenly felt confident, hopeful, and excited about my future. Guys I am a new person. Seriously just take time for yourself and feel things out. For me, it was music and films that helped me really zero in on myself. I listened to sad music and watched artsy movies and then I was able to understand what I was feeling and what it said about me. I was honest with myself and finally accepted my emotions as NORMAL and OKAY. When I was able to do that, everything suddenly became clear! Okay that's enough with my testimonial. I really hope you guys can learn from your emotions and let them guide you towards a better future!

Real wisdom like this, the truth, is so often underappreciated. It's so rare to hear someone talk about emotions in this way, the right way. We are emotional beings and our soul (our real self) has been designed with the ability for us to handle any and every emotion. That's pretty huge, because although I believe that, I can also sit here and name a few emotions off the top of my head that I feel I CAN'T cope with. That I would rather die than feel them. And I'm really struggling to live. I'm 37 and I think I have c-ptsd. And schizophrenia. But I'm not sure. I've never had a therapist that I could talk to. But I do know that facing my darker emotions head on, with God, has always been beneficial. I've never regretted feeling anything. Except for one emotion, an experience of terror, that I still tremble when I think of. It lasted all day, I threw up, sweated buckets and truly thought I was dying at one point for about 2 minutes. And didn't seem to do much for me afterwards which really surprised me. Any time I release an emotion of fear/terror, anger or especially grief, I feel better. Sometimes right away, sometimes a day or two. But not that time. I don't know what that was but I want to know and I'm going to find out. Feel it to heal it. Grieve it to leave it. Great talk, thank you very much.

Very inspiring talk thanks for figuring out one on the biggest issues

I think what she says is important, but I believe we're here to learn to experience greater joy. And becoming emotionally adept is supposed to aid us in that.