Our emotions are one the most pressing and important traits that makes us human, and it can drive both pain and happiness in our lives. We are driven daily by our emotions — we laugh because we are happy, we cry because we’ve been hurt and we make sacrifices because we love. Without a shred of doubt, emotions control a big part of dictate our thoughts, consciousness, intentions and actions. This is the reason why we need to learn to control emotions and not let it get the best of us.
Our feelings and emotions can move into dangerous extremes. Move far to the left too much and you can suffer from unsolicited anger and rage. Move too far to the right and you can suffer from a state of fake euphoria. You need to control your emotions and approach it with a sense of moderation and logical perspective — especially negative emotions that can tear you and the people around you apart.
To Control Emotions Is Not Easy — But Possible!
Control emotions like rage, envy, anger and bitterness because they tend to spiral out of control. Sometimes, people cannot control what they say or do immediately after these emotions have been triggered. In time, negative emotions can slowly conditioning the mind to function on detrimental feelings and drain all your positive thoughts.
Life would be pretty dull without your emotions, but sometimes they can sure get the best of you. So when you feel like your emotions are spiraling out of control, try stopping everything in your head by counting 1 to 10.
Yes, that’s it. Just count one to ten.
By counting one to ten before making any action (or reaction), you are giving yourself a chance to assess the situation before doing or saying anything that you might regret in the future. You might think that this is just a small thing – but I cannot stress enough how many times counting to ten has allowed me to control my emotions.
Divert yourself from the feelings that you are currently experiencing and just focus on repeating the numbers in your head, slowly breathing while going through the process. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. By the time you get to the last number, your emotions could have gotten down a little bit. This powerful habit, just like meditation and self-hypnosis, is something that you can practice to keep your emotions in check!
If you find yourself feeling bad more often than good, or if you find that when you do feel bad, you cant seem to shake it off in a timely manner, then you just may need to learn how to control your emotions, so your emotions don’t control you! Ορμή Τρίνεξ