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Emotional Tussle: Ways To Manage It

Manage Emotions
Emotion is quite often the best thing to happen in a human being. Managing emotions is a life long application and a powerful thing to share and to practice.

1. First of all, express your emotions and deal with them. It is the easiest, yet the most challenging task to perform. Expression does not cost you anything. Unexpressed emotions are not healthy and they may affect your life in the long run. So just let it go.

2. For instance, if you are angry about something, you can do anger management by showing it on writing, walking, painting etc.

3. Express your emotion but be mindful having it under control, depending on the situations you are in and the atmosphere.

4. Learn about negative emotions and create ways for positive thinking. Life is never too late to recognize the negative emotions. Identify them and see how you can manage these emotions. Try not to repeat the elements leading to negative emotions. Instead, replace the negative feelings with positive thinking.

5. No matter what happens it is the positive vibes that keeps us moving forward. We all need positive energies at some point or the other in life. Emotions like pain, anger, happiness etc cannot be avoided or neglected.

6. Analyze your reactions and release your emotions to manage them. It has been believed that every action has an equal and an opposite reaction. Nevertheless, observe your reactions. Responding to a problem or an action would be ideal than to react to it. That is personality development.

7. Locate your emotions in your body before you express it. Be with it and deal with it. Relax as much as you can. Some breathing exercises would help too.

8. Releasing your emotion is very helpful for your own good. There are some physical ways of releasing some of your emotions, especially anger and hurt. They are: a. go for a drive alone, b. scream as loudly as you can. Just do it responsibly.

9. Be aware of your emotions. As you communicate, your body will let you know about your feelings like anger, fear, sadness or happiness. Take a moment to calm down though. Be willing and able to compromise to manage your emotions.

10. Relieve your stress through the senses like taste, sound, touch, sight and smell. Find something that soothes you. It becomes important to understand and empathize with what is really troubling other people for holistic personality development.

11. The power of prayer and meditation. Some emotions just stay on, no matter what you do. That means you have a reactive personality. Everything in the universe has a time and a limit, including human beings.

12. One powerful way to resort in such imbalanced moments is to pray. Meditation on something that's much beyond you would bring you to an absolute understanding of the natural stance and the happenings around you. It is the last resort of anger management.

These are some ways to manage emotions and succeed in life.

Story first published: Thursday, February 2, 2012, 18:08 [IST]
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