Ahmed Shaami
Everyone experiences situations where your emotions get the best of you. It happens often because you don’t realize what is happening until you are too far down the emotion train to change it. But what you resist, persist for a longer time. Therefore, the best time to handle emotions is when you first begin to feel and experience it completely. In this way, it does not keep popping up again and again.
Following are the few steps you can take control of your emotions and your life:
Maintain a balanced body budget:
For mastering your emotions, it is crucial to maintaining a balanced body budget. This means to eat healthfully, exercise regularly, and get eight hours of sleep. Once you get into exercising, it brings a balance in your body through movement and changes your predictions as well as experiences.
Improve upon your emotional intelligence:
Your performance is fueled by emotional intelligence both in the workplace and your personal life. No matter what field you are in, pay attention to effectively controlling your own emotional energy and it will help you gain success in all areas of your life.
Collect new ideas:
There are a lot of experiences that you gain by taking trips, reading books, meeting people, studying new languages etc. These activities offer you opportunities to construct experiences in completely new ways. By developing new concepts and changing old ones in new ways, it affects your future predictions and behaviors. This, potentially increase your empathy and improve your negotiation skills.
Stay connected to positive experiences:
One of the important ways to take control of your emotions is to savor and attend to the positive concepts. This will help you predict and cultivate future instances of positivity. You can easily remember them by writing them down and cultivate the experiences that you want to construct gain in the future.
Learn to deconstruct:
Instead of allowing the experiences as a filter through which you view the world, learn to deconstruct a feeling into its mere physical sensations. Deconstructing your feelings can have surprising benefits and helps to regulate your behavior.
