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Feelings constantly change. You may go to sleep at night in a great mood and wake up the next morning feeling depressed. In fact you might be in a good mood at lunch, someone says something disagreeable and your in a bad mood at 1:00 p.m. Because our moods and feeling will vary from day to day and sometimes hour to hour we must learn to master our emotions. How do we master our emotions? We master our emotions by being disciplined. Start exercising discipline over your emotions by:
1. Realize that your moods will vary.
When you are in a bad mood or depressed know that the feeling will pass. Don’t be tempted to believe that bad feelings will never end. Remind yourself often that you are a victor and not a victim. Be determined to succeed.
2. Don’t give into feelings of discouragement and fear.
Your emotions will be tested many times during the week. Rule over your emotions, don’t let emotions rule over you. Become the master of your emotions. When you are tested admit to yourself that you are experiencing certain difficult feelings and even give yourself a short time to dwell on the feelings, but then be determined to have a good day.
3. Think good thoughts.
Be the ruler of your own emotions. Don’t blow up and don’t lash out at people. Everyone feels emotional sometimes, but don’t act irrationally just because you feel emotional. Act with reason and deliberate thought and don’t act on impulse. Think yourself right out of your bad feelings by keeping a good and positive mindset. Make a decision that you are going to do better.
1 comment:
When I first realized that it was my pertinent responsibility to control my emotions or suffer immaturity, I read that there is a small interpolation between an event and the following emotion that you can exploit/use to decide what emotion would best suit the situation for the best possible outcome.
I felt like I could do anything after mastering it, and others did also.
Eventually, I was struck down by a looming illness that my parents hid from me, which destroyed everything. The illness is neurological.
Anyway, I still take responsibility for my failures and my parents exploit that, especially my stepfather ( my parents are abusive, and growing up in the 80's, it wasn't considered the kind of crime that should be stopped.)
These three little rules are something I can still do staring down middle age, and dealing with worsening neurological illness.
In fact, they are probably healthier than using only one skill.
Thanks for taking time to share your knowledge online.
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