An often misunderstood sentence is 'Control your emotions before your emotions control you'. A lot of us unfortunately try to resist feeling the emotions, mistaking them for control. Others feel them but push them inside. Both ways are almost always counter-productive.
It is impossible to control anything without even acknowledging its presence in the first place. All emotions are beautiful, they are our guides. They help us find our answers. They help us connect, they help us bond, they help us understand and they help us express.
The problem is only when we let them slip away from us, or when we cannot stop feeling a certain way or get so carried away in an emotion that it feels like going down a never-ending slippery slope.
So an easier way of controlling our emotions is to first simply pause and try to understand why we are feeling a certain way. To do that we first have to accept and acknowledge we are feeling a certain emotion.
Pay attention to what you are feeling and see where you are feeling it in your body. Accept and acknowledge that you are feeling that emotion and then give yourself the permission to release it. It may seem like a long and difficult process in the beginning. But I promise you it gets easier and faster with practice.
And soon enough you'll be able to identify the emotion way faster and control it in a way that does not involve resisting or pushing it in.
If there is some thought, feeling or emotion that has been bothering you for a while and you would like to have some help releasing it, then do visit the above or below links and connect with me. I'll guide you and help you take charge of your own emotions.
