Response To 'Dealing With Feelings'

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According to Dealing with Feelings article, Rudolph Verderber describing feelings are superior to withholding them or displaying them. Withholding means keeping them inside and not giving any verbal or nonverbal cues to their existence. Moreover, it is generally an inappropriate means of dealing with feelings. Withholding feelings are one way to deal with feelings but are a very unhealthy approach. Another approach to deal with feelings is to display them. It means expressing those feelings through a facial reaction, body response, and or paralinguistic reaction. This is also risky if the feelings are negative. It may feel good to “blow up” at the other person, but this hinders good communication and is therefore generally harmful to the relationship. Another approach is described your feelings. Describing feelings are putting your feelings into words in a calm, nonjudgmental way tends to be the best method of disclosing feelings. This means telling the other person how you feel as a result of what has occurred. Describing one’s feelings is not always easy, but it is the safest and healthiest way to deal with feelings. …show more content…

Moreover, each one of them describing our feeling in different ways and each one has its own characteristics. Withholding feeling is considered one of the ways that we can deal with ourselves, but this way, especially classified as the most dangerous to ourselves. In addition, displaying feeling can happen when we are showing our feeling through a facial reaction, body response, and or paralinguistic reaction. Last dealing with feeling is describing the feeling and this way we use it when we describe our feelings with words when we talk to

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