Do Your Emotions Help You Or Hold You Back?

The question: Are our emotions primal, basic, unevolved, and immature? If that’s the case, how can our emotions help us in personal growth, or are they too backward to be of any help? As we can see, the question is too general. In Darwin’s theory of evolution, he states that emotionality is favored by natural selection. Fear readies the animal for flight or anger readies the animal for battle. However, not all emotions are toxic. Anger, for example, is not toxic but hostilities or the desire for revenge are. There are ways to deal with toxic emotions, the first of which is to realize that all negative emotions are not toxic.

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