Emotions can have a helpful role in your daily life, they can take a toll on your emotional health and interpersonal relationships when they start to feel out of control.
We are driven day by day by our emotions. We take chances because we're excited about new prospects. We cry because we've been hurt and we make sacrifices because we love. Without a doubt, our emotions dictate our thoughts, intentions, and actions with superior authority to our rational minds, but it’s not appropriate or particularly adaptive. You could express your frustration in other ways that allow you to release those angry feelings, or instead try to find a way to calm yourself down. In time, these sorts of emotions can grow like weeds, slowly conditioning the mind to function on detrimental feelings and dominating daily life. Ever met a person who's consistently angry or hostile? They weren't born that way. But they allowed certain emotions to stir within them for so long that they became inbred feelings arising all too frequently.
So here are some strategies to gain better control over your emotions.
1. Stop react right away:
Reacting immediately to emotional triggers can be a huge mistake. It is guaranteed that what you do or say at that time you will retreat later. It's better not to react immediately. Before refuting the trigger with your emotional argument, take a deep breath and stabilize the overwhelming impulse. Continue deep breathing for five minutes, it will relax your muscles feel you calm and your heart rate returns to normal.
2. See the big picture:
Whenever something unexpected happens to us our emotional system starts to hijacked our rational system. So if you want to fix this problem then we have to train ourselves to see the big picture of every situation and to be able to see the big picture in every situation the question that we need to ask is why. Whenever we start to think only about ourselves we start to become more emotional. If you try to observe the situation from the other's point of view then forcefully we have to make use of our rational or logical system and that helps us to dominate our emotions. So the next time you realize that you are getting emotional just take a 3-second pause and ask yourself the question why?
3. Sleep hygiene:
Some toxic proteins start together over our neurons when we are awake which hinders the communication between different neurons. Then when we fall asleep these toxic proteins get remove periodically in different stages of our sleep cycle. This is why we start to feel tired and groggy due to lack of sleep which ultimately decreases our willpower and our self-control ability. So to remove this toxic protein periodically we need to sleep well but some of our habits affect very badly to our sleep hygiene. One of them is drinking alcohol or having sleeping pills to fall asleep. By doing these things some important stages of our sleep cycle get missed as a result even after sleeping for 6 to 8 hours the toxic proteins are not removed properly. So after waking up we still feel tired and groggy also artificial blue light harms our sleep cycle by stopping the production of Melanie in our body.
4. Replace the thought:
Supposed you are going to give a presentation before hundreds of people. Now you have two options to think about. Number one negative thinking if you start to think something like ohh God what will happen if no one likes my presentation what when everyone gets bored or what if someone makes fun of me. The moment you will start to think about all this nonsense your brain will start to release stress hormones like cortisol, Adrienne and this will generate negative emotions like fear, anger inside you. Or the second option positive thinking if you start to visualize something like that you are giving your presentation very confidently and everyone is also listening to is enjoying and at the end of the presentation you are getting a standing ovation from your audience then your brain will start to release feel-good hormones like oxytocin, dopamine that will make your emotions sweet. Every emotion trigger by some thoughts if you don't believe it you can try it just now. For the next 10 seconds don't think about anything don't say any word in your mind see if there is any emotion generating in you. Now try to recall the happiest day in your life what are the things you have done on that day. Where you went on that day. Try to think about all those things. Now see if there is any emotion generating in you. So thought is the root of any emotion and in every situation, we have two choices to see the positive side of a situation and generating positive thoughts inside us or to see the negative side of every situation and generating negative thoughts inside us. Whichever kind of thought you will choose according to that you will get resulted emotion. So if you really want to control your emotions first you have to control your thoughts and that is only possible when you will able to choose your thoughts consciously in every situation.
Knowing your emotional triggers can help you avoid the problems in the first place. Being able to alter your thoughts and reactions will build your confidence in your own ability to cope. With practice, you’ll be able to turn negatives into positives, and, each time, gain emotional fulfillment. So by using the above tips you can control your emotions better way so your emotions can't control you.
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