In tune with your emotions... In tune with your emotions... To know if we are in tune with our emotions we must first know what that means. In my opinion, it is to recognize them and manage them in a healthy way. And we don't necessarily mean that sometimes we don't feel fear, anger, sadness... we do feel them, but we accept them, we live them, we go through them and we move on. Am I capable of that?

Testosterone tells me that everything is going well, but I must be frank and avoid becoming blind to something. I can't be in healthy tune with emotions all the time. I am currently continuing to educate myself to do so. Formally, I have medical appointments that are helping me a lot, and I have discovered things about myself that have helped me move forward in the way I see myself and others.

Sometimes, however, little by little, one gets off track without realizing it, perhaps abandoning what we have to do, facing new situations that seem to surpass us or our nuclear scheme imposes itself on the education we have acquired. **Generally, in the way I talk about myself out loud, in the tone I use to talk to other people, in the music I am provoked to listen to. My wife helps me a lot, and she can sense when I'm out of tune and tells me kindly. Then, it's time to act. **What do I do to regain wellness?

WALKING AND TAKING PICTURES

_{Photo taken by my wife with her Oppo Realme 7 phone. This is what I must look like when I walk alone, (without the backpack 😜)}

Sometimes, when we have lost our emotional balance, some feelings appear and everyone expresses them in different ways, such as anxiety, despair, frustration, resentment, etc. And it can be symptomatized physically! Perhaps the headache, the desire to run, the desire to scream or hit.... It's time to act. So, sometimes, it has helped me to go for a walk, alone, to take some pictures.

In the middle of last year I got sick and had to stay home for a few days while I had a lot of commitments on the street. After a week I felt like if I didn't go for a walk I was going to start scratching the walls (is an exaggeration 🙃). So I grabbed my camera and went out to a hilly area to walk around, get some fresh air and take some pictures. I simply took my time and walked about five kilometers before returning home. Looking at the photos from that morning reminds me of how bad I felt that day, but I guess only I will know that. That will be a topic for another day. I've realized that this is one of the mechanisms I've been using the most lately, and it works very well for me.

ENUNCIATE TO COMMUNICATE IT

If we want others to help us when we are not feeling well we have to tell them. Please stop thinking: "He (or she) has to realize that I feel bad". Stop! It's not like that! We can't let them imagine it all the time. Many times we have to communicate it to them and we can. But here comes something interesting: what will we tell them? That's why one of the things that helps me is to try to state what I feel, what it's called, how I'm manifesting it, what's the reason, what's the magnitude of it? These things help me to know myself and when I tell people close to me what I feel I can communicate effectively. But, you know what? Many times in that process I usually realize what I should do to feel better, that it is not so serious and it helps me not to transcend and sometimes it is not necessary to communicate it to someone else, but I get down to work and change my tuning.

REVIEW MY READING HABITS

Several times, when my well-being is shaken it is because I have neglected some good habit, and one of them is daily reading. I strive every day to have meaningful reading, and reading that helps my intellect, personality and spirituality. When I have it on a regular basis I feel more prepared to face day to day situations. Endurance, patience, kindness, a sense of humor? many of these things are useful and reading focused on them is one of the best ways to prepare us to use them when needed. So when I'm not feeling well, one of the things I ask myself is, "How's my daily reading?"

I remember a few years back when I faced a difficult situation. The problem was quite a snowball, and when it reached its full size and landed on me it was quite an earthquake. At the time I had started reading a book that I suddenly felt would rather make me more negative. However, with the intention of keeping up the reading habit, I did not interrupt it. To my surprise, that book helped me a lot those months and helped me maintain the mental clarity and emotional balance I needed.

TALK TO A GOOD FRIEND OR COUNSELOR, WITHOUT BEING JUDGED.

This is one of the things that I consider most effective in regaining a healthy attunement with our emotions. It works. I recommend it.

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Just as a screwdriver does not work to loosen all screws, because they vary in size and shape, it is possible that to regain our well-being we need similar things but in different measures. The point is not to let our health slip away for too long. Thank you for reading me.