How to control Emotion

The ability to experience and express emotions is more important than you might realize as the felt response to a given situation, emotions play a key part in your reactions. When you’re in tune with them, you have access to important knowledge that helps with decision-making, relationship success. While emotions can have a helpful role in your daily life, they can take a toll on your emotional health and interpersonal relationships when they start to feel out of control. 

Here are some point to get you started.

Take a look at the impact of your emotions: It’s perfectly normal to experience some emotional overwhelm on occasion when something wonderful happens, when something terrible happens, when you feel like you’ve missed out. Emotions that regularly get out of hand might lead to relationship or friendship conflict, difficulty relating to others trouble at work or school an urge to use substances to help manage your emotions physical or emotional outbursts.

Aim for regulation, not repression: You can’t control your emotions with a dial if only it were that easy but imagine for a moment that you could manage emotions this way. You wouldn’t want to leave them running at maximum all the time. You also wouldn’t want to switch them off entirely either.

When you suppress or repress emotions, you’re preventing yourself from experiencing and expressing feelings. This can happen consciously suppression or unconsciously repression.

Identify what you’re feeling: Taking a moment to check in with yourself about your mood can help you begin gaining back control. Say you’ve been seeing someone for a few months. You tried planning a date last week but they said they didn’t have time. Yesterday, you texted again saying, I’d like to see you soon. Can you meet this week?They finally reply, more than a day later “I Can’t or am Busy.” You’re suddenly extremely upset without stopping to think, you hurl your phone across the room, knock over your wastebasket and kick your desk, stubbing your toe.

 Keep a mood journal: Writing down or typing up your feelings and the responses they trigger can help you uncover any disruptive patterns. Sometimes, it’s enough to mentally trace emotions back through your thoughts. Putting feelings onto paper can allow you to reflect on them more deeply. It also helps you recognize when specific circumstances, like trouble at work or family conflict, contribute to harder to control emotions. Identifying specific triggers makes it possible to come up with ways to manage them more productively.

By: Amusan Blessing 

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