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According to Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton in “How Full is Your Bucket?”,  “negative” emotions can subtract 10 years or more from your life expectancy. Cigarette smoking can reduce life expectancy for males by 5.5 years, and 7 years for females.

 So why not trade worry, stress, and bad feelings for a cigarette?  We’d gain a few years and might even feel better.

Why not don’t put a “sin tax” on bad news and “negative
thoughts”, like we do cigarettes?

Okay, these options may not be practical. So here’s another perspective worth considering. 

What if there really is no such thing as a negative emotion? What if every emotion has value … because it’s telling us something? If that’s the case, a “bad” feeling would hold as much wisdom as a “good” feeling, maybe even more. 

So a “negative” emotion would only be a problem if we ignored what that feeling was trying to tell us. It would only be a problem if we allowed ourselves to stay there, instead of  choosing to get the message, so we could feel better.

Maybe a cigarette would help?

Just kidding!

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