The Best Way to Gain Control Over Your Emotions
Emotions inspire revulsion for some people. For others, splashing around in the emotional seas is all-too-familiar territory. Whether we like it or not, navigating life comes packaged with the full gamut of emotions that have the potential to throw a serious wrench into our lives if we don’t know how to properly deal with them.
Resentment can cause us to clutch to the past and to store bitter memories. Guilt can cause us to live a life that is painfully not one of our choosing. And anxiety can calcify the fight-or-flight impulse more enduringly into our emotional DNA. But don’t be fooled: such stereotypically negative emotions aren’t the only ones that can make us feel out-of-control. Unbridled optimism, for example, can exact a similar toll by serving as a means to distract us from a reality that we really ought to face.
Plenty of people are quietly terrified by emotions and their power to sweep away our bearings and wreak havoc in our lives. And for good reason too, they can be very destabilizing!
Generally speaking, people have a tendency to lean towards one of two unhealthy protocols when it comes to emotions.
a) Ignoring Emotion: This is the person that stuffs feelings underneath the rug, doesn’t like being questioned about their feelings, and is mostly content to cope with life by…
