Primary & Secondary Emotions

Do you ever fight over something stupid? Or do you wonder why you get anxious sometimes? To change the way you react you need to learn to understand your primary and secondary emotions.
Primary emotions are the first emotions that you feel for any given event. Secondary emotions are feelings you experience after primary emotion. Secondary emotions usually are more intense emotions that push people away or protect yourself in some way. While primary emotions and usually more uncomfortable by nature and require some vulnerability to experience.
Secondary emotions usually are emotions that push people away and can include: angry, frustration, irritation, withdrawing, anxiety, and fear. Any feeling can be a primary or secondary emotion, the key thing to remember: are secondary emotions push someone away or protecting a more profound emotion that might be too difficult to share.
Commit below on ways you might let your secondary emotions protect your primary emotions.
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