My thoughts and impressions arising from my viewing of the video alluded to and other experiences pertinent to the subject.

Denial is a devastating attribute and the more we participate in the denial of the realities of our emotional status, the more we limit our propensity for coping with the vicissitudes of life.

The only certainty in life is uncertainty, for things change in the blink of an eye, from health to dread disease, from happy family relations to the loss of loved ones, from peaceful coexistence to war and from economic comfort to dire need.

We need to navigate uncertainty in a manner which does not jeopardize our emotional health and consequently our overall well-being.

Depression is now the leading cause of disability globally, outstripping cancer, heart disease and the various forms of dementia.

A new malevolent force grows consistently in the form of positivity, which is considered to be moral correctness and which is depriving us of appropriate responses to the difficulties we face in our mortal progress.

The effect of this imperative to replace thoughts and emotions seen as less than positive with a denial of reality in favour the desired state exacerbates the problems born of denial as people refuse to acknowledge the need to learn through negotiating the experiences required to build emotional resilience in the face of grief, economic change, trauma induced anxiety and related psychological and physiological conditions.

Research shows that when emotions are ignored or suppressed they amplify and their is a higher price to pay for delaying our dealing with the problems of life.

Dale Carnegie said that the only people without problems are those who have passed on, or was it Napoleon Hill. Problems are opportunities to overcome and grow through so doing. The only way we can appreciate warmth is by knowing the opposite, and so it is with pleasure and pain, happiness and sadness, joy and despair.

Discomfort is the motivator which pushes us toward excellence and comfort zones are to be avoided if we wish to achieve our potential.

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Research shows that embracing all our emotions is the foundation of emotional resilience.

It is also important to identify what we are experiencing and term it appropriately since effective handling of these matters requires accurate identification as we are far more capable of dealing effectively with problems the greater our understanding of them.

Emotional maturity is truly important and emotional education is essential to achieving the agility which will prepare us to be of most value to our health and that of all around us.

Those who have religious views, like myself, might consider that Heaven is not a place where all good people go but rather a state of being achieved through overcoming all obstacles and achieving the agility required to choose the right in every circumstance and thereby prove to be truly beneficent beings. So Heaven is where such a being is or that being is Heavenly.

Jesus Christ is claimed to have overcome all things and instructs us to follow his example and be perfect, through enduring to the end, constantly improving our mastery over our circumstances and of course, our emotions, appetites and passions. Other religions of the world have similar claims for individuals they revere.

It seems that this is a much neglected area in our education, especially as our foremost experts in the field are learning at present about the true impact of these factors and we therefore have some catching up to do.

As the complexities of our world increase at an accelerating rate and the education systems are in may ways becoming less effective, it seems important that we take responsibility for this kind of education for the benefit of all we influence as the rate of failure, despair, mental illness, suicide and ineptitude consistently increase around us.

The TED Talk link in the final attribution is well worth watching.

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TED Talk, Pixabay.