The psychologist spoke about the benefits of sadness

The third Monday in January is usually called sad, since the New Year holidays are over, and the salary is still far away. The concept was coined by Cardiff University psychologist Cliff Arnal.

Russian psychologist Maria Potudina believes that on this day it is even useful to indulge in sadness. And that's why...

“An important role of emotions is to motivate and organize our actions. That is, emotions often predetermine our behavior,” she says, adding that emotions also help to understand and realize the attitude to a particular situation. Or understand how a close person, friend, colleague perceives the same situation.

Sadness has different shades. Among them - melancholy, apathy, pain, annoyance. Sadness is also manifested physically - weakness, lethargy, aching pain in certain parts of the body. Living this state is not very pleasant, but sometimes it is necessary. After all, without having tasted sadness, it is impossible to fully appreciate happiness, pleasure, to feel it as vividly as possible.

Listen to yourself during sadness - what do you want? If there is a desire to be silent, to absorb sweets or lie in bed all day - do not deny yourself this.

How to live emotions

First of all, stop and, again, listen to yourself. What worries you? Recognize and name it.

Try to find the reflection of the emotion in the body. Perhaps sadness provoked tears and now, after crying, you have a feeling of sand in your eyes. Or at the moment of stress there was a feeling as if a piece of ice was melting in the stomach. Fix this feeling, let it be, even if it is unpleasant.

Don't stop yourself from feeling negative emotions. Society often frowns on someone crying, angry, or worried. Sweep these prohibitions away, otherwise they will put a "block" in your psyche on negative emotions, and this is fraught with many things, up to bodily ailments.