The Power Of Positive Emotions
When your emotions take over and you react, your thinking brain is temporarily disconnected and impulse rules! I’m sure you’ve experienced moments like that in your life. It is not a great frame of mind in which to make life changing decisions.
To help steer your life in the direction you want to be going, learning to manage your emotions, and building that muscle, is an important skill to learn. It’s too easy to “blame” external factors on why we did or did not respond to a situation in a way that would have supported our life direction better.
Emotions often lead to coping activities. When we feel something, we consequently respond to that feeling. This can be both in the immediate (and often subconscious) response to the feeling and also in the more thoughtful handling of the aftermath. Where this has been a negative feeling, the response may range from vigorous justification of our actions to conciliatory apologies and other ‘making up’.
A common response to the repression of unwanted emotions is displacement, where we act out our frustration in other ways. Thus a reprimanded child, knowing they cannot answer back, may go and ‘punish’ their toys.
…manage emotions, both yours and theirs. In negotiations, the person gets their way is often the person who has greatest emotional control. Source: ChangingMinds.org
Emotions affect and are a part of our mood, which is usually a more sustained emotional state. Mood affects our judgment and changes how we process decisions.
If you have done any reading about the laws of attraction or how to attract desired circumstances into your experience of life, then you will also know about the power of positive emotions.
Learn to recognize emotions at increasing levels of detail. When you can see the emotion, you can “respond” appropriately to it, rather than “reacting” to a situation and taking an action that you might later regret.
Use this handy…
Positive Emotion List
…to help expand your awareness of the emotions you feel in this life. Become more skilled at creating the positive emotions you desire, as you grow and learn to name your emotions.
You increase your power by feeling dynamic rather than fine, energetic rather than OK, and sensational rather than simply good.
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