Emotions are what makes us humans. Our whole life is guided by our thoughts, emotions and how are we feeling. Emotions play a crucial part in determining the decisions we make in our day to day life.Master your Emotions book by Thibaut Meurisse will provide you the knowledge of how our emotions work and how to deal with negative emotions and use them as a fuel for personal growth and becoming a better human. So, let’s take some key lessons we can learn from Master Your Emotions Book
Sentences in Italic font are used from the book-Master your Emotions
Understanding Emotions-Master Your Emotions Book
Have you ever noticed how we are drawn to negative emotions more than the positive ones. How we always try to find problems around us and immediately start looking for solutions. The author explains this in the book as because our brain is still in survival mode. Fortunately, unlike your ancestors you’re not facing death every day. In fact, in many parts of the world, life has never been safer. Yet your survival mechanism hasn’t changed much. Your brain still scans your environment looking for potential threats. Hence, we look out for situations which makes us feel unworthy, rejected because our ancestors faced the same emotions in order to survive, live in a tribe.
Ego also plays a huge part on how we feel. Our need to feel superior is driven by our ego. While pride is a certainly a manifestation of ego……You may show no pride and appear humble while still being controlled by your ego
One needs to understand that emotions come and go. Bad days get replaced by good days and visa versa. There is a popular saying -No pain No gain. This saying does not stick to the gym but it is applicable in life also. In order to feel and enjoy positive emotions one needs to experience negative emotions and use it as fuel for your betterment. Look out for the negative loophole one may fall into. What triggers your negative emotions. Is it your own overthinking, external environment, or some other thing. To reduce negative emotions, you must learn to compartmentalize your issues.
What Drives your Emotions-Master Your Emotions Book
>Sleep
Improving your quality of sleep or sleep cycle is directly proportional to how you feel. A good 6-7 hrs of sleep can make you feel alive and motivated whereas sleep deprivation can make you feel grumpy, lethargic or procrastinate
>Body
Emotions are felt all throughout our body. Hence it is fair to say we can use our body to drive our emotions. A good posture or a good workout session can instantly uplift your mood and change the way how you feel.
>Thoughts
Thoughts create how we feel and it is the source of how are our emotions are generated. Here the author gives us two ways to control our thoughts and not let our thoughts control us – By Meditating calm down your monkey mind and the other is practicing visualization. Visualizing positive scenarios generates positive thoughts which in turn generates positive experiences.
>Words
Positive affirmations are the best way to generate positive emotions and have a hold on negative ones. Next time when you find yourself in awry state, use positive affirmations to let go negative emotions
>Breathing
The writer gives different techniques of breathing to get a hold of your emotions and calm down your anxious mind. One such is Rapid Breath or Breath of Fire which releases stress and brings back your mind focus in the present moment
>Environment
Decluttered environment is equal to decluttered mind. No one thrives in an uncluttered space or dirty environment. Clear your space and watch your mood uplift a bit.
>Music
Music is the expressions of emotions, how we are feeling. Listening to music before your big game or your big event can help you calm down and generate positive feeling.
Change your Emotions
The author gives a simple formula to understand how emotions are formed-
Interpretation+ Identification+ Repetition=Strong Emotion
change your assumptions to change your Interpretation. Spend time consciously revisiting your assumptions about yourself or external circumstances.
Thoughts leads to Emotions and Emotions leads to Actions. To take control of your thoughts start altering scenarios that bring a wave of negative thoughts. By changing your interpretation of environment, behavior contributes to changing your thought pattern. The author has provided long term and short term solutions to deal with negative emotions.
Emotions are always trying us to say something. Feeling angry means you need to calm down, feeling stressful means you need to get out of stressful situation. Bringing self-awareness to analyse your emotions is the crucial step in using emotions for self-growth. Tackle your triggers which produces low emotions and track your accomplishments, compliments and good memories to fuel good emotions. Hope this article gives you a better understanding on the book-Master Your Emotions.
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