The ability to manage your emotions is one of the most important communication skills that a person needs to communicate in a social environment. This is a double-edged sword - you must be able to not only turn off the emotions that you want to hide, but also be able to “connect” those that you want to demonstrate. By learning not to show those feelings that should not be visible to prying eyes, you will also learn how to manage any of your emotions.
Instructions
Step 1
This skill is especially useful in the workplace, since there are emotions such as anger and fear that directly interfere with normal work and reduce the mental and physical abilities of a person to zero. These two emotions can greatly interfere with you in ordinary, everyday life. Those problems that are caused by fear or anger have a solution that can only be reached by connecting your intellect, i.e. on a cold head.
Step 2
Train yourself to feel calm and confident, especially when you are feeling fearful or angry. Calmness should become a mental habit that extinguishes emotions as soon as they arise. To train calmness, constantly monitor and control yourself, your feelings and with an effort of will turn off those that can cause your breakdown. This methodical approach will allow the body to turn them off on the way.
Step 3
You can influence your emotions using body position, facial expressions and gestures. An uncomfortable position of the body disorganizes not only the human body, but also his thoughts. Being in an uncomfortable position, you feel discomfort and your whole body expresses it: your breathing is uneven, your mouth may be slightly open, your movements are fussy and erratic. Feeling the approach of unwanted emotions, sit comfortably, put your hands on the armrests of the chair, fold your torso on its back, spread your legs. Breathing should be deep and even. Feel that you are in control of your emotions.
Step 4
Control your thoughts, try to replace the panicky ones with rational ones that suggest a way out of the situation. Or those that help to prioritize and determine the degree of unimportance of what is happening on a global scale. Make it easier for your brain to generate such thought forms by imagining that you are alone on the seashore and sitting, breathing in the clean air deeply, listening to the sound of the surf.
