Step Back To Move Forward

It might seem like a contradictory title but this is what a new study suggests.

When you’re upset or depressed, should you analyze your feelings to figure out what’s wrong? Or should you just forget about it and move on?

In a study by university of Michigan psychologist Ethan Kross, the best way to move ahead emotionally is to analyze one’s feelings from a psychologically distanced perspective.

As a human being we all are in habit of thinking and reviewing our mistakes. But this makes us to re-experience the same negative emotions again and again and thus keeping us stuck in negativity

Therefore it is very helpful to create a  mental time-out, sit back and try to review the situation from a distance avoiding being subjective.

This is quite similar to what has been taught for centuries in our eastern philosophies like Buddhism and Taoism. According to the research any one can do this by little practice.

The research says

Go back to the time and place of the experience…take a few steps back and move away from your experience…watch the experience unfold as if it were happening all over again to the distant you… try to understand the emotions that the distant you felt as the experience unfolded…why did he (she) have those feelings?

What were the underlying causes and reasons?

It is really like steeping back to move forward.

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