Although sadness feels like a negative emotion, it has a positive intent. When you lose someone or something meaningful you require the support of others. Sadness is a message from you to you to get that support.

There are many phobias of completely harmless things. If someone has always experienced a fear reaction around buttons for example, buttons are dangerous. This is their reality.

Jealousy can feel like a very negative emotion, but it means well. What if jealousy is just a message from you to you about something that someone else has that you want.

If something happens to make you feel anger and you forget it is just a message from you to you that something's not right, then you become the message. Your mind narrows its focus on that one thing that was not right to the exclusion of everything else.

What if anxiety is about happiness and well-being though? What if anxiety was just a message from you to you saying that something is threatening your happiness and well-being?