Podcast - Episode 0137 - Emotional Stacking vs Emotional Indulgence

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In this podcast you’ll find:

• Letting emotions stack over time until you explode vs. overindulging emotions on a regular basis.
• Neither are expressing emotional health.
• Not a lot of education on what emotional health looks like.
• There is a trend toward Thinkers allowing emotions to stack vs. Feelers who may tend to overindulge in feelings.
• We as humans spend a lot of time and energy trying to manage emotions and relationships.
• Emotional stacking happens when we continually invalidate the emotions that come up. We aren’t letting them go; they are still there, and they will keep piling up until there is a breaking point. The pressure must be relieved. Usually, comes out as an explosion or meltdown.
• You know that you’ve experienced this if you have ever just lost your mind on someone else (or vice versa), and there is no logical reason for it.
• It’s the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
• Some people fear their emotions. They fear being controlled by them.
• Try to figure out how much more something irritates you the second time you encounter it. If it irritates you more, you are stacking.
• The reason emotions stack for Feelers is because we want to give the people we love a pass. We don’t want to make a big deal about our emotions.
• Feelers also don’t want to be considered emotionally erratic.
• Women Feelers don’t want to play into the stereotype of the hysterical female.
• Male Feelers don’t want to have their masculinity called into question by emoting.
• People feel like emotions happen to them. They are on the receiving end of something that is out of control.
• Overindulgence comes when someone gets the attention they want every time they emote. So, they develop a strategy to use this to become the highest status person in the room. Extraverted Feeling wants to get people’s needs met. The person with the most needs is the highest status individual.
• If you perpetually stay in the position as the person who always has the most needs, your group will hemorrhage you out.
• Because we are in a society that sees emotions as being out of control, then the person who is showing the most heightened version of negative emotion appears the most in control because everyone else dances to their fiddle.
• Emotional self-indulgence is usually about power and status.
• If you think your emotions are everybody else’s problem, you are officially in an emotionally overindulgent space.
• So are stackers better than self-indulgers?
• No. Two sides of the same coin. One often leads to the other.
• Sometimes we trick ourselves into believing that stacking is the noblest strategy. That is not reality.
• Learn to process your emotions in a more real-time manner.
• Pay attention to your body. Are you clenching your teeth? Are your shoulders up around your ears? Is your stomach fluttering?
• Set reminders throughout the day to check in.
• You have probably created a portion of your identity around not being emotional. You may think that makes you more low maintenance, which you have told yourself is desirable.
• You may have to take an ego hit if you start expressing the emotions.
• All personal development comes from being not you and taking hits to your ego.
• This doesn’t mean you have to lose it completely. You can still make the choice to accept the little moments to avoid the big explosion.
• People who overindulge in emotion are often looking for validation from the outside world. They either want the outside world to fix the problem or are looking for confirmation that what they are feeling is appropriate.
• Work on self-validation. Don’t expect others to validate you. Every emotion doesn’t need a dog and pony show. Decide what emotion to express and what emotion to let go.
• Don’t be an emotional bully.
• Sometimes we lack the courage to confront the person causing the problem.
• What do you do when you’re caught in the grip? Change something. Go for a walk. Get a snack. If you’re in a car, stop and get out for a few minutes.
• Emotions can bring us into the present. This may explain why they become addictive to some people because they make us so aware. Meditation can do the same thing without the extreme highs and lows.

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