Negative emotion: usually an unpleasant or unhappy emotion which is evoked in individuals to express a negative affect towards an event or person (Psychology Dictionary). An example of a negative emotion is sadness, anxiety, guilt, shame/embarrassment, and more. A person’s response to conflict shows what type of person someone is. One of the best ways that a person can react to conflict is by avoiding negative emotions and feelings.
Negative thoughts can affect the body in more ways then you probably know and can lead to lasting health problems. For example, critical thoughts about yourself and others can lead to many health problems, as noted by Dr. Firestone, “It advises us and subdues us, keeping us seemingly safe inside a miserable, albeit familiar, shell” (How Negative Thoughts are Ruining Your Life). What Dr. Firestone means by this is that the inner voice in your head that tells you that you are not good enough or this person isn’t good enough causes many people to stop trying to reach a goal or listen to loved ones. This can cause people to not go and seek medical help if or …show more content…
Dr. Firestone advises people use Dr. Daniel Siegel’s method of stopping negative emotions by using a COAL attitude, which is where a person will be curious, open, accepting, and loving to themselves and others (How Negative Thoughts Are Ruining Your Life). By confronting and responding to conflict with this attitude people will be more likely to happy and to not beat themselves up about mistakes or how something went wrong and how it was that one person’s fault. If you don’t want to use the COAL attitude method while in a time of conflict trying to stay positive to the very least could help. For example, Anne Frank trying to retain a positive outlook at her position when she was hiding had let her have a decent life with her family in the cramped and crowded