Troubling feelings

Our emotions play a vitally important role in our lives. They provide us with our ‘hunches’ and our ‘gut feelings’ – our intuition provides us with a different kind of knowledge about the world around us.

A person without emotion would find it very difficult to understand other people, what motivates them and the choices they seem to make.

For many of us, anxiety is an unwelcome visitor in our lives. This section looks at some ways of understanding anxiety, and at some ways in which we can help ourselves feel more relaxed.