What do you do when you’re sad, happy, or angry? How do you let other people know what you’re feeling, should they need to know? Notice any patterns of behavior in the way you express your emotions? That’s your way of self-expression and it’s part of your personality.
Don’t you usually feel better after you say something that you might’ve wanted to “get off your chest”? When you express those feelings or concerns, be it to someone else or to yourself, the weigh may come off right away. That is because being heard and understood are crucial for a stable emotional state.
But expressing your thoughts and feelings doesn’t always involve speech. Sometimes, it’s just gestures. For some of us, our attitude or the one action we always take when we need to communicate a thought or feeling may be the solution to all three emotional states mentioned; sometimes it is writing (of course). It is painting. It is dancing. It is cooking. It is playing. It is sketching. There’s so much expression in creation.
It’s okay to express yourself in any other unique way, as long as you find a way. It’s healthy to be in touch with your feelings. Plus the more effective ways of expression a person possess, the easier it is for others to understand them — interpreting an abstract-only painter, for example, could be a bit complicated. What I’m saying is self-expression skills matter because it is communication, and communication is the foundation to all human relation.
