Regulating Your Emotions: Amazing Ways to Control Emotions
Our emotions signal rewards and threats. Similar to how a compass guides us through the right direction, emotions have the power to guide us to the right actions. Let us understand it through a simple example, when a child commits a mistake, he might get scared and lie to his parents about it, or avoid confronting them as he fears punishment. However, the parents may eventually discover what the child did, and the child might face some consequences for the mistake committed. In this example, listening and responding to the instinct of lying proved futile for the child. On the other hand, the same emotion would prove helpful for someone being chased by a wild beast in the forest. Here, running away instead of facing the beast is a good decision to save one’s life. So, it is quite crucial to judge these emotional triggers and act on them, and we must also understand the time when we must not listen to our emotions and try to regulate them. Hence, we introduce you to emotional regulation ...