Most people are not nearly as happy as they could be.  They suffer from anxiety, stress, loneliness, depression, and many other types of feelings that diminish their quality of life.  When researchers measure someone’s wellbeing one of the questions they ask is “When you go to bed at night do you look forward to tomorrow?”  The number of people who answer "no" to that question is increasing.

All emotions have a positive evolutionary purpose but when they get “stuck” and are no longer serving the purpose they were evolved for, there is needless suffering.  In order to find your way out of chronic negative emotional states or situations, you’ll first need to understand what each emotion’s purpose is and what it’s telling you. Then you can begin making conscious decisions towards what one could argue is life’s greatest goal; happiness and wellbeing.  

Without a goal, your chances of arriving at an emotional ideal are incredibly slim. When options arise you will either pick the easier path, or the one that is familiar, not one leading you towards an improved result.  Once you broaden your emotional understanding a whole new range of options will seem just as familiar as you embark on a path that is likely to progress with a “change, pain, gain” sequence, also known as a “two steps backward to take three steps forward” approach - the continual pattern of personal life improvement.

Over the next several months I will post expositions on a wide variety of emotions to help people better understand why they feel the way they feel and to share how they can move forward in their pursuit of a better quality of life. I look forward to sharing what I’ve learned through many years of research, thought, trial, error, and observation.