Ways to control your emotions

The biggest difference between adults and children is that adults know how to control their emotions. We know that sometimes we are prone to various emotions. If emotions are not well controlled, people are prone to impulsiveness and even life-threatening things. Moreover, long-term emotions can easily lead to diseases. Therefore, we must learn how to control our emotions. Let’s take a look at the introduction below.

Controlling emotions is a very difficult thing. We can only control our emotions if we know ourselves well. We can control our emotions by diverting, weakening, venting and forgiving.

Controlling your emotions is an issue of emotional intelligence. In emotional intelligence training, one very important item is how to control and manage your emotions. The higher the emotional intelligence, the stronger the ability to control one's emotions. One's work and life will not be affected by his or her emotions. So, how should one control one's emotions? Here are some ways to control one's emotions!

1. Diversion: When we become depressed, angry, or irritable, we must learn to divert our attention and not let ourselves indulge in negative emotions. Instead, we should shift our attention to things that can make us happy.

2. Catharsis: Catharsis is a good way to manage emotions, but you should also pay attention to how to use catharsis. Catharsis is not about yelling, but about releasing your emotions through communication, writing, etc. Don't suppress negative emotions in your heart and affect yourself.

3. Weakening: Try to use music, movies, novels, games, etc. that make you feel happy to weaken your emotions. Try your best not to listen to, see, feel, associate, think, or remember stimulating things.

4. Tolerance: Being angry is punishing yourself for the mistakes of others. When you forgive others, you forgive yourself. So we must learn to be tolerant, because when you are tolerant to others, you are also tolerant to yourself.

5. Cognition: Our emotions are closely related to our cognition. When our cognitive angles are different, we will also have many different emotions. Therefore, when stimulation occurs, we can think from a different angle and make a new understanding of it in order to break out of the original limitations. Free your mind so that you can shift your energy to the goals you are pursuing.

Above, we introduced the impact of emotions on us. Emotions can easily lead to illness and even threaten our lives, so we must know how to control our emotions. The above article has detailed various methods of controlling emotions. We can use methods of diversion and weakening, as well as tolerance, cognition, catharsis and other methods to control emotions.