Many subconsciously choose to consume music, movies and content based on the emotions they carry.
We can also use that to acknowledge what emotions we subconsciously carry and consciously pick other content that may be better.
What you consume is oftentimes a reflection of your emotions or the thoughts you have.
When you feel a certain way then you’re likely to choose certain content to consume or music to listen to.
For example: When you’re sad then you listen to sad music, if your heart broken you listen to music that reflects that, if you if you’re angry then you listen to music that reflects that or watch content that reflects that.
So there’s one way about going about emotional introspection. One way would be you just sit down and write out what emotions you’re feeling, what emotions come up and the other way is to pay attention to what you consume.
What you consume is oftentimes a reflection of your emotions and by paying attention to that you can specifically pick something that might be better for you.
You can choose not based on your emotions and let it be something automatic where you’re like oh I feel this way so now I’m gonna pick all of these things or you can be recognizing, oh I feel that way but yet I choose to pick something else that might be better for me.
So you can be sad and down and listening to that kind of music that keeps you in that state or you can pay attention to your emotional state and pick that or pick something else and then also won’t stay in a loop where you just feed the same thing over and over again instead of breaking out of it.
And potentially say, you know what, I want content that actually empowers me, I want content that makes me stronger, I want content that makes me more aware. I want this or that instead of like just letting it be an automatic thing where “oh I feel this way” now I’m going to pick just that thing similar to how I feel right now.
