Develop Emotional Boundaries
Most adolescents have a difficult time to establish their emotional boundaries. Many adolescents aren't even able to control their emotions. Even adults have a difficult time establishing their emotional boundaries from time to time.
So, it is important for adolescents to get into the habit of determining the boundaries of their emotions as early as possible.
Emotional boundaries define your true feelings and how you react to certain people, things or situations. You need to safeguard your boundaries at all times.
In other words, boundaries define where your feelings end and another person's start and what you will and won't tolerate.
By developing these kinds of boundaries, you'll be establishing and maintaining boundaries to give your heart and soul the space it needs to feel safe before speaking or acting. Here are a few ways to develop emotional boundaries.
1. Listen to your heart and what it's telling you at all times. Turn inward as much as possible to determine your true feelings.
If something doesn't feel right, trust that feeling.
2.
Don't be too quick to trust others. We must take the time to get to know people before we trust them with intimate information about us.
Unless we're careful, we will definitely get hurt.
Instead, take a lot of time to get to know the other person before trusting.
3. Don't tolerate any form of psychological abuse from others.
The first time someone is mean or abusive to you, have nothing to do with such a person.
This can have a negative impact on your self-esteem.
If a person is continually abusive, have nothing to do with him/her for a while.
4.
Hang around happy and supportive people. Gloomy people can make you feel bad about yourself and to feel hopeless. However, if you find happy people to hand around with, you will feel inspired and confident. And who knows you may even feel empowered too.
You need this kind of stability to become emotionally fit right into adulthood.
By developing emotional boundaries, you'll be sheltering your most vulnerable feelings and emotions from harm.
Take the time to develop strong boundaries to avoid abuse from others, and empower yourself to express your emotions openly.
It takes time to develop these boundaries.
So, try not to rush it.
We all need to establish where our emotions end and another person's begins from the earliest age.
If you can establish these habits as a habit, all the more power to you.
You will be much more confident as a teen, and you will also become a much more confident young adult.
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