Emotions carry information from our body to our brains, telling us what’s going on in our internal and external environments. They are fast, fluid, and dynamic, and when we learn to accurately read our emotions, we can harness all the information they’re trying to tell us. Try to welcome more positive emotions into your day, such as gratitude, joy, appreciation, calm, fulfillment, enthusiasm, and inspiration. And don’t let them pass too quickly. See if you can stretch them out and savour them; your wellbeing will thank you for it.

Emotions aren’t good or bad—they just are. They are an automatic response to a given situation, and we don’t really have the ability to control our emotions. But we do have the ability to control how we respond to our emotions.