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НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ • Травень 2026 39 OUR HEALTH Ihor Magun, MD, FACP Emotional flexibility is a charac - teristic that we all need to em - brace. It allows us to deal with life’s ebbs and flows as well as positive and negative events. It permits our emotions to take a different point of view. An ex - ample of this shift in thinking: “what if” to “even if” taps into our resourcefulness and coping mechanisms, even if things do go wrong. “What if “ thinking al - ways implies an outcome that is fear-based. It is difficult to be resilient when we are faced with many issues, even if we attempt to force ourselves to feel happy. It is acceptable to not feel positive. What is important is to be com - fortable with all our feelings in life and to move towards what matters to us most, whatever the situation. Acceptance is healthier than making ourselves feel a par - ticular way. Every emotion has a purpose. In order to “label” an emotion, we should question ourselves: “What are we feeling at the present time?” Labeling emo - Emotional Flexibility tions permits us to make sense of what we are feeling; when we cannot label our emotions accu - rately, we fall short of self-aware - ness. Examples of emotions can be feeling overwhelmed, guilty, or disappointed. When we open up to our emo - tions, we can better understand what messages the emotion is trying to give us. Feeling “over - whelmed” with responsibilities, for example, may be pointing out the value we place on accom - plishing everything on time and correctly. We must be willing to allow ourselves fewer self-im - posed demands, possibly sharing some tasks with others. This way of incorporating flexibility reduc - es our stress. Strategies to promote emo - tional flexibility require us to be willing to experience emotions as opposed to avoidance, since avoidance may actually return in a more sinister way. We must allow ourselves to feel both pos - itive and negative emotions, but try to find a silver lining. It’s okay not to have all the answers. We can’t control certain situations, but we can control our reaction. Finally, it may help to journal our feelings onto paper. Individ - uals who practice this report feel - ing happier and more positive. Perceive emotions as emotions, and this will prevent us from self-identifying with the emotion, permitting us to act in accordance with our values in lieu of being driven by an emotion. Emotional flexibility is an excel - lent building block for our mental health. It leads to more positive relationships with others, per - mits us to better cope and adapt to situations and unexpected cir - cumstances, and makes us more open to more than one way of thinking and doing things.
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