"I am calmness itself": How to control your emotions

Some people are worried and nervous about anything. They screw themselves over trifles, and are often depressed. Living in constant stress ultimately leads to the development of various diseases.

How to learn to control your emotions

Controlling your emotions means controlling your life and yourself. This means controlling everything that happens around you. If necessary, influence life and the world around you in a way that is convenient and beneficial for you.

There are several rules:

1. Use imagination... If during a conversation your interlocutor begins to annoy, and there is a desire to throw something at him, then mentally implement your plan. Play a picture of how this happens in your head. It will immediately become easier for you.
2. If the topic of discussion is unpleasant for you, imagine a solid barrier between you and the interlocutor. All negativity remains on the other side, and you feel calm and indifferent.
3. Drawings allow you to throw out unnecessary negative. Draw what's in your head. Press down firmly on the pen or pencil so that the paper tears. Transfer everything that has accumulated inside to a sheet of paper. You can crumple and discard your drawing as a result. This will release your anger.
4. Train your senses. Sometimes it is difficult to understand what exactly is driving you at the moment. For example, coffee was spilled in the morning, and anger was thrown out after that on one of the colleagues. Try to avoid reacting to emotions within you.
5. To learn how to control your emotions, you have to be patient. Emotions arise instantly and are difficult to contain. Practice changing facial expressions in front of the mirror, grimacing and making faces. Then what is inside you will not manifest outwardly. Later, the emotions themselves will become controllable.

How to control your anger

Anger arises from a serious incident. Instinctively, aggression appears inside, which breaks out. You cannot find something, or an expensive thing breaks down, you were rude. All this becomes the reasons for the emergence of aggression. Anger also generates psychological trauma experienced in childhood.

If you don't know how to contain your anger, you will have to face problems in life. You can lose work, their loved ones, become lonely... In the future, the anger grows, the problems become even more, because you are angry about them. Subsequently, health problems arise.

Tips on how to curb your anger:

• Count to 10 in your mind before you react.
• Breathe in and out deeply several times. Think of words that can calm you down.
• Try to explain your dissatisfaction calmly, without yelling. The person should understand what made you angry.
• Before you say something, think about your phrase so that you do not regret what you said.
• Try to talk and find a joint solution with the interlocutor.
• Speak for yourself, so as not to accidentally slander an innocent person.
• Don't be angry with others.
• Try to be humorous about what happened.
• Avoid sarcasm.

How to control aggression

If you feel irritated, think of good things that can calm you down. Imagine yourself in the place of another person, try to understand his behavior. Try to be calm about everything. Imagine yourself as a wall that doesn't respond to stimuli.

Many have flaws and people often make mistakes. Be patient with others. When communicating with other people, you should not go to shouting. Stop to calm down. Talk to your loved one about your concerns for support.

• Sport helps to release unnecessary energy. Start doing it and you will feel how to get rid of aggression.
• Sleep is the rest of the body. If a person does not get enough sleep, he becomes hot-tempered. Sleep should be at least 7 hours a day.
• Meditation will help you become a more balanced person.
• Rest, communication will help relieve stress. You can listen to calm music to relax and unwind.
• Identify the cause of your anger. Perhaps everything is not quite as it seems at first glance.
• Respect the people around you. They have their own opinion.

How to become calmer

1. To react calmly to what is happening around you, you have to start with yourself. If you learn to remain a calm person in any situation, the world around you will become more comfortable and cozy.
2. Consistency. To do this, you need to follow the daily routine. Go to bed and wake up at the same time. Do not overload yourself with work. Do not exhaust the body with strict diets. Spend the weekend with health benefits.
3. Food. The body needs vitamins. From a lack of vitamins, a person quickly gets tired, becomes irritable. More vegetables and fruits, and coffee and replace black tea with green.
4. Exercise stress. After training, a person feels an improvement in mood. The body gets tired, but the psyche is at rest. By exercising, you will not only keep yourself in shape, but also become less prone to outbursts of anger.
5. Hobbies. If you didn't have a favorite activity, come up with one. Maybe you enjoy growing flowers or painting, you just didn't have time for that.
6. Debts. Sometimes unfulfilled obligations become the cause of aggression for any reason. Cases that are not completed, unfulfilled plans crush from within. Try to finish what you started and feel freer.
7. Unnecessary information. On TV or from newspapers, you receive information that affects emotional state. All the negativity from these sources can affect human behavior. Try to avoid unverified information. Read more calm literature and watch good films.