MANAGING SADNESS
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Jung
Sadness is the sorrow and distress caused by a loss or failure that you have experienced. When you lose something or someone you love, when you fail to achieve something, when your hopes fail to materialise or a good situation comes to an end, this experience of loss can be felt and expressed as sadness.
Sadness produces particular bodily responses that, instead of giving you energy, as anger does, take energy away from you. Your mind and body slow down, to give you time to take in the loss or failure and accept that what has happened has happened and that nothing can change that.
Like all emotions, sadness has a positive purpose. Not ...
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