Emotional Availability

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It is about the skill of emotional management. But before having a skill, one should know about the importance of emotions. Emotions are food. We stave without it. From Maslow's hierarchy of needs, we know that one of the essential human needs is the need for belonging and love. To feel that we belong somewhere in a community, love someone and feel loved, we need to engage with our emotions. We need to be seen, known, understood, and supported by others in the community. In this process, we feel loved. And when we put our efforts into seeing, knowing, understanding, and supporting others, we give our love to them. So I think that the first step to having a skillset for emotional management is to recognize our feelings in their unprocessed form.