If you ever thought of controlling your emotions, you must have realised; it’s hard. As our feelings are inevitable in regulating our conversations and relationships with the people around us,they play an important role in how we think and behave.As time passes, not paying attention to emotions will create adverse effects. The body takes advantage of the brain and will turn out to be weak as a person.
If you ever thought of controlling your emotions, you must have realised; it’s hard. As our feelings are inevitable in regulating our conversations and relationships with the people around us,they play an important role in how we think and behave.As time passes, not paying attention to emotions will create adverse effects. The body takes advantage of the brain and will turn out to be weak as a person.
Following are some areas that might get affected if you don’t know how to handle your emotions adequately.
- Better and clearer thinking
- Decision making
- Relationship success
- Daily interactions
- Self-care
When we cannot handle our emotions, they can negatively impact our emotional health and relationships with others. However, to some extent, mental disorders such as depression, mania, and bipolar disorders are caused by emotional dysregulation. Meanwhile, feelings like euphoria or pleasure dominate.
Let’s understand some best ways to manage emotions
Examine the effect of your emotions
Not all strong emotions are destructive. Our emotions are what make our lives exciting, unique and vibrant. Strong feelings signify that we fully accept ourselves and do not suppress our instincts. It’s normal to feel emotionally overwhelmed occasionally in situations like heartbreak or loss. So how do you see when a problem occurs?
Often irrational emotions can cause:
- Incompatibility in a friendship or relationship
- Maintaining relationship
- Complications at work or school
- The urge to use drugs to help control your emotions
- Emotional or physical outbursts
Assess how unmanageable your emotions are and how they affect your daily routine. Rather than repression, the goal is control.Imagine for a moment if you could control your emotions. You don’t have to escape or turn them off entirely from situations.
When you repress or suppress your emotions, you prevent yourself from expressing what you are going through. In the long run, repressing or suppressing emotions may cause several issues like:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Muscle tension and pain
- Sleep issues
- Substance misuse or addiction
- Difficulty managing stress
When controlling your emotions, be careful not to sweep them under the rug. Express your emotions but it is essential to keep a balance for the smooth working of your body and mind.
Accept your emotions
If you want to get better at controlling your emotions, try to keep them down.If you train to accept your feelings as they are, it will be more comfortable. Enhancing your comfort with them lets you experience emotions wholly and prevent dramatic and adverse reactions.
Maintain a journal
Journaling your feelings, especially the reactions that spur up, may help you spot and overcome problematic patterns.You can think more deeply about your feelings while you write them down. It also allows for identifying situations, including challenges at work or family disputes. Finding specific triggers makes it possible to create more efficient management approaches.
Journaling every day is most beneficial. Keep a journal handy and write down intense emotions or feelings as they arise. Track your response and triggers as best you can. If your response could be more helpful, use your journal to research more beneficial options for the future.Take a deep breath and give yourself some space. By putting yourself in a place different from your intense emotions, you can ensure that you respond rationally to them. This distance can be something physical, like leaving a difficult situation. You can also create mental distance by changing your focus through this. Practicing meditation and mindfulness is one of the advised approaches.
Contact an online therapist or mental health professional to get more expert mentoring to work through your feelings.
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