The secret to mastering emotions

Feelings of anger and anxiety will cause us to have health problems such as stress, headaches, insomnia, high blood pressure, depression...

Controlling anger

Feelings of anger and anxiety will cause us to encounter health problems such as stress, headaches, insomnia, high blood pressure, depression, etc. Therefore, understanding and controlling negative emotions not only helps us protect our mental and physical health but also gives us a sober view of people, things, and events around us.

To control anger effectively, we must learn to recognize the signs of anger when we are in an argument with others. We can only control our emotions when we recognize negative signs rising inside us (increased heart rate, muscle tension, feeling frustrated, short of breath, wanting to explode…).

Not everyone has the ability to control negative emotions well without prior training. When we see signs of anger rising in us, we can perform some emotional control movements using deep breathing techniques and facial muscle relaxation.

It is not unreasonable that Yoga trainers and psychologists advise us that: "If we feel anger erupting, we can repeat the action of taking deep and slow breaths, then holding the breath for a few seconds and slowly exhaling through the mouth or maintaining focus on each muscle group in the body, slowly tensing them up and then relaxing them to calm negative emotions. Once positive thoughts are practiced regularly, they will become a part of your life."

Accept past mistakes

American philosopher Benjamin Franklin once said: "The past is a ghost, the present is a gift, the future is a dream." So, while life is always moving, if we keep negative memories in our minds or indulge in beautiful memories (of the past), we will not open our hearts to the present, not ready to move towards the future.

In fact, people who cling to the past often feel depressed, stressed, lazy, bored, and stagnant. We all know that the past (whether happy or sad, lucky or unlucky) is always a part of life. Everyone has a past and humans are not machines that can erase all the past by pressing the "delete" button.

However, we need to understand that the past is past, we cannot go back and redo it. Therefore, blindly holding on to the past only makes us lose the opportunity for the present and the future.

When you cannot redo and change the mistakes that have happened, accept it, compromise with the old wounds to move on, open the door to the future. Consider the past as a lesson, an experience, a challenge that we must go through to become more mature in will and courage.

Source: https://phunuvietnam.vn/bi-quyet-lam-chu-cam-xuc-20240923123858209.htm