You may feel gloomy today, which could have a negative effect on your outlook. Your mood could cause you to feel pessimistic about your options or defeated when thinking about your goals. Making an effort to understand where these feelings originate could help you work through them and release them. A great exercise for getting in touch with your emotions is to write about them in a journal. Allow your feelings to flow freely and spill your frustrations onto the page. This will allow you to honor your feelings and give them a voice, which can help purge them from your mind and body. You can then spend some time mentally working through any issues that are upsetting you and focus on adopting a more positive mind-set today.

Expressing our emotions frees us from their subconscious influence and endows us with a greater sense of self-control. Because our emotions can be so fleeting, we might not even realize that we are upset about something until we begin to feel irritable or gloomy for no apparent reason. Taking time to explore and express these feelings to the best of our ability is often enough to shed light on our reactions, and we are then able to work through our emotions in productive ways. We then feel empowered instead of feeling like we are being controlled by our emotions. Choosing to honor your emotions by expressing them today will give you the ability to work through and resolve them.