Health Questions Answered, the Complexity of Our Emotions and What to Do About It
Intro
In this edition of Your Best Life,I share my latest podcast episode answering some of the common health questions found on the internet, an insight into our emotions and feelings and an idea to help us become more emotionally intelligent so that we can live our best lives. We finish with a life principle on giving and taking advice.
Latest Podcast
My latest podcast episode.
Today’s episode is a little bit different in that I don’t have a guest or conversation to bring you but instead answer some of the most common health-related questions I’ve found on the internet over the last few days.
Be prepared to learn, my thoughts on the “best diet” for healthy living, what’s massively improved my mental health, the health metrics I track, and my thoughts and recommendations on health tech!
I also give an overview and a reminder of my approach to health, and a full disclaimer that none of what I share is medical advice and should you require medical advice to seek a medical professional!
However, I will and always share what’s worked and is working for me when it comes to health and what I believe to be best for human health through the lens of combining ancient wisdom–aka what humans have been doing the longest with the latest science.
Click here to listen on Apple Podcasts
Click here to listen on Spotify
1 Insight To Consider
Thought-provoking insights to think about.
Our emotions and feelings are often very complex.
Like, what’s the difference between feeling angry to frustrated or happy to joyful? 🤔
There are differences, albeit very subtle.
I’ve come to realise that most people including myself don’t know how they truly feel most of the time and therefore use basic terms like“good” or“okay” or“tired” to describe how we feel…
But, stop right there! ✋
Because these terms aren’t feelings. They’re just the very very tip of the iceberg!
As a society, we’ve accepted this meaning that when we ask someone how they feel or get asked how we feel, they or we reply with these basic terms and then just get on with our day.
This plays out something like…
Someone asks us, “How are you feeling today?”
We reply, “Good, how about you?”
They reply, “That’s good, I’m feeling tired.”
We reply, “Oh that’s too bad.”
They reply, “Yeah, had a late night.”
And the conversation continues in this fashion until we change the topic or have to rush off.
But, what does“good” or“tired” or“okay”or any of these basic termsactually mean?!
Take tired for example…
When we say we’re feeling “tired” does this mean physically tired, or mentally tired? Or maybe, emotionally drained? Or, maybe a combination of all three?
And, then the question becomes why?
Did you not get good sleep? Did you just finish a hard workout? Maybe, you have a lot of worries bubbling subconsciously and don’t know how to process them.
As you can now hopefully start to see, our emotions and how we feel are more complex than just“tired” and there are often many factors at play.
The challenge is that in our society we haven’t been taught how to feel feelings.
And, that feeling feelings and being emotionally intelligent is a skill!
This is why one of the best things I think we can do for self-discovery and to live our healthiest best lives possible is toreally connect with our emotions and how we feel beyond the basic and surface-level terms like“good”.
And, instead to use our emotions and how we feel as a feedback tool to learn and grow.
It’s a life skill that never stops developing. But, one that I believe we can cultivate if we want to and will drastically improve the quality of our lives.
Thoughts?!
1 Idea To Act On
Simple actions to improve your health & life.
Keeping with the same theme of our emotions and feelings one habit we can integrate to connect with how weactually feel beyond the surface level is to start checking in with ourselves every morning and evening by asking ourselves how we feel through four lenses.
These four lenses are…
- Physically, our physical body.
- Mentally, how we feel mentally or as some call it “upstairs”.
- Emotionally, closely linked with our mental state albeit different.
- Spiritually, our purpose or connected tosomething larger than ourselves.
I’ve started integrating this into my morning and evening routine as part of my journaling practice.
I used to write down what I felt, such as“tired” or“calm” or“satisfied” etc. But then over time, I started to realise how we feel is more than these surface-level terms which is where today’s insight also came from.
This new habit is a great way to become more emotionally aware and is the first step towards using our emotions and feelings as a feedback tool to learn and grow.
Try it!
Principle Of Life
Principles & reminders to help you live your best life.
#33: Take your own advice.
Until next week,
Luke Burrows
Founder, Podcast Host
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