Learn to manage emotions

Can emotions be managed? I am convinced: it can be done. Not only that, but when we are able to manage them, our possibilities grow immediately, both on a personal and professional level.

It is important to know how we react to the stimuli that surround us. As much as it is knowing how to calibrate and control the amount of emotional response that interests us. These aspects will help us not to spend our strength and energy inappropriately and unnecessarily.

For example, what good is it for me to get very angry with a stranger? It is more than likely that I will never see him again in my life. This way, all I’m doing is wasting valuable energy unproductively. Energy that could be channeled into much more satisfying activities. Because, to make matters worse, this feeling of disgust will last much longer than would be reasonable.

Know to manage emotions

I fear that a good number of people think that emotions are not controllable or manageable, that it is something that arises and overwhelms us. We feel fear or love and we don’t know how, why And, what is even worse, we do not consider the possibility of understanding and managing those feelings.

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For this reason we often confuse feelings. It’s easy to think that someone is angry, when really he’s busy. It is not a trivial fact, on the contrary, a poor perception of emotions produces confusion that can lead to serious consequences in our interpersonal relationships.

But, In order to distinguish feelings, we first need to know them and identify them in ourselves. It is the first essential step to then be able to do the same in others and take the next step, which is learning to effectively manage our own emotions.

The phases to identify and manage emotions

It is necessary to give names to those emotions that we feel at a given moment.

Because the first phase to be able to manage the emotion would be to identify it. It is easy to recognize emotions, we see them in others. What makes them complex is the fact that several of them usually occur at the same time.. We might say, “I feel unhappy,” but what do you really mean? Are you: sad, angry, ashamed, jealous, do you feel guilty…? Which one responds to your feeling?

Then comes the second inevitable and essential step. Only when you identify those emotions will you be able to delve deeper, analyze and make decisions about them. Separating and identifying emotions allows me to know what I feel, learn to know myself better and, based on this, face my challenges more effectively. In short, to manage emotions in an efficient way.

If we were taught from childhood to identify and manage emotions, life would be easier. If we weren’t lucky enough to be taught it as children, now is the time to start.
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