Negative emotions sap your energy and undermine your
effectiveness. In the negative emotional state, you find the lack of desire to
do anything. The mind is filled with thoughts of fear, doubts and insecurities.
Your body experiences fatigue, tightness and muscle tension.
Notice that your negative emotions arise when you
respond to something, attach a meaning to it and picture it in your mind. You
add power to it by using words to label and describe the situation or emotion.
You will then experience the sensation and respond accordingly, as you always
have, unconsciously.
The ability to deal with negative emotions will change
your responses to situations and people. Below are 6 steps to you can use to deal with negative
emotions:
1.
Make a Quality Decision.
It takes a decision to change anything. Once you
decide that you no longer want to allow your negative emotions to control your
life, you will take action to manage them when the first hint appears.
2.
Awareness.
Become aware of your emotions. You should condition
yourself to become aware of your emotions and the stimulus that trigger them.
When you are aware, you are able to look at it squarely. Train your mind to
"catch" yourself getting into an emotional state.
3.
Questioning.
It takes conscious awareness to question your limiting
feelings and state of mind. Questioning yourself is a way to dehypnotize your
way of getting into an automatic state of negative emotions. Question your
reasons, assumptions and understandings in order to change the intensity and
meaning you attach to your emotions.
4. Change
your focus.
When you focus on hurtful feeling, fear and all other
negative state of emotions, you will enlarge them. You need to refocus and
divert your attention to what you want to experience. Instead of brooding and
playing dis-empowering images and talking negatively to yourself, take a
different action.
Since you have total control over your thoughts at any
given time, you can shift your thinking. The best way to shift your thinking
and refocus is to do something physically. Moving your body through physical
activity changes your internal state of mind.
5.
De-stress and relax.
When there is a lot of stress in your life, everything
seems against you. De-stress yourself at intervals during your waking hours by
taking time to relax and exercise breathing techniques. A calm and peaceful
mind is able to produce positive emotions and a better outlook about life and
events.
6.
Accept responsibility.
Try to remind yourself that the cause of your anger,
hurt and fear are not due to external situations or people. It exists inside
you. If you can control and manage your negative emotions, nothing out there
will affect your state of mind and body.
Work on your mind today.
Refuse to let negative
emotions gain the mastery over you. You will Achieve Your Dreams!
Someone out there might just need it.
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