What is Emotional Health ?

This is a guest blog post by LaTara Ham-Ying Founder of Integrated Woman Ministries. I’m very happy to have LaTara here. She has a great approach to life and I’m sure you will enjoy her nuggets of wisdom. You can follow her on twitter at @latarahamying and also her ministry at @IntegratedWoman .

This may be an odd way of starting a post, but I have a few a questions for you.
• Do you deal with your emotions in a healthy way?
• Do you deal with life with your emotions at the helm?
• Do you find it difficult to get your emotions under control?
• Have you ever wondered what the Word says about emotions
and how it tells us to deal with them?
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Finding inner peace

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What happens when you start to feel down or stressed?
First of all some kind of thought came into your mind that got you discouraged and anxious….
The next thing that happened is that you actually believed that thought.
Then…. you started to feed that thought with more arguments.
Which in turn got you into a deeper state of confusion and sadness…
Next thing you know…
You find yourself there in that deep mudhole.
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How to find joy … flowing joy

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I wanted to share my watercolor painting with you.
This flower represents the inner state of flowing joy.
Yellow has a deep connection to joy.
We are like flowers of joy in this life. Having the flower floating in the river of water is a metaphor. The flower is not really guiding the way rather it is being taken to several different places by the waters of the river.
The flower is resting and enjoying the journey.
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How to Be and Stay Happy

Release Certain Emotions

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First of all, it’s very important to understand that everyone has sad moments. It’s a part of life and we need to accept those. But we don’t need to get stuck in the sad. Finding ways that we can get ourselves out of “being stuck” and back to a happiness state is an essential personal development skill for life. Sometimes in order to experience the happy and joyful we need to be able to release negative emotions.
If you feel that you are bottling up your feelings, then you should read this post on discovering the healing power of releasing your emotions and allowing yourself to cry. By releasing emotions on a regular basis you will be making room for happiness in your life.

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Ok I admit it.. I’m a total Barbie fan – Happy Barbie Day!

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Ever since I became an “adult”, I’ve been told that I’m not supposed to be into childish things like Barbie, Strawberry Shortcake, and My Little Pony any more. A few years ago I secretly bought a whole bunch of dolls and then proceeded to give them all away.
I was trying to be all “adult like” and censored myself. After going through a lot of tough times, I’ve decided that life is too short to cut out of it what I truly like.
So I’m taking today which is the official Barbie Day to just say:
Yes, I’m a total Barbie fan.
There. I said it .

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How to deal with grief and loss

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Grief is an experience that changes us deeply.
After experiencing grief, our entire view on life changes. We can clearly feel the difference of how we were before and after it. Those events are like landmarks that forever change our inner most being.
Life looks, feels, and even tastes differently. There’s a saying that goes like this: “What doesn’t kill us can only make us stronger…”
That saying is true for some people but not everyone is able to understand how to get stronger after traumatic events. My hope is that this article can somehow shed some light to help those who are experiencing grief to move forward and overcome the place that they are at.

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Discover the Power of Allowing Yourself to Cry

   Sometimes sadness overwhelms us and even though we may be positive people, no idea seems to be able to get us out of that “sad space” at that moment. I have felt like this. When this happens, we can’t even think straight. And even though there are plenty of things that we love to do in our lives, at that moment nothing seems to be
                        appealing. Absolutely nothing.
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How to stay calm while being more productive

Many times anxiety will cause us to not be as productive as we could be. Whether you’re wanting to remain calm at work or at home you can do certain things to change your environment to experience this kind of peace.

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Whitney Houston interviewed by Oprah Winfrey my perspective on it all

(< < Whitney Houston performing On ABC's Good Morning America in NYC)

Watching Whitney Houston being interviewed by Oprah Winfrey was so inspiring to me and completely different from that infamous interview with Diane Sawyer.
Honestly when I watched Whitney being interviewed by Diane Sawyer several years ago, my vision of Whitney shattered and I was completely disappointed.
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