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Talking About a Resolution
Closing our own ‘unsolved cases’ can do us the world of good.
So many people, myself included, carry around baggage from their earliest years, simply piling one unresolved issue on top of another until they reach a crisis point, the burden just becomes too heavy to bear any longer and they crash.
It’s then that most people are forced to examine the load they’ve been carrying and to set about de-cluttering their emotional life in order to be able to function in the world more effectively.
But what if we were taught from an early age to do this as we went along, to treat our emotional issues as cases to be solved, as and when they appear?
We could recognize and identify the symptoms, get to the bottom of what is causing them and resolve that issue using the most appropriate strategy available to us. Not difficult or revolutionary, but so many of us are never taught this explicitly. Most of those that utilize it in their lives come by it through a role-model, someone in their life that had excellent self-awareness and self-care routines and passed it on through osmosis. I believe that we would all benefit from having this kind of emotional literacy taught in our schools.
But regardless, we can all learn to do it and benefit from the process.
