How To Control Your Negative Emotions For a Peaceful Life

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Our life is control by our emotions what we are? and what we will be ? is depend on the emotions that we carry in various moments of life. Our thought process and its related actions are results of the emotions that we carry and react to the objects according to emotional behavior. Emotions are natural human phenomena which created by our mental & by psychophysiological expressions, biological reactions, and mental states.
Positive emotions or negative emotions dictate our physical & mental state. We take risks because we’re enthusiastic about new prospects. We grieve because we’ve been hurt. So, this very important to make a balance between both kinds of emotions to have a peaceful & mindful life.
Fear, anxiety, depression, anger, sorrow, boredom, discontentment, panic etc like negative emotions tend to spiral out of control, especially immediately after they’ve been triggered. In time, these kinds of emotions can spread like viruses in our mind, slowly conditioning the mind to function on deleterious feelings and dominating our daily life. These negative emotions drain your energy and damage your health. They can ruin your relationships and hold you back from new opportunities.
In this article, we will discuss the checks & controls of these negative emotions and retrieve rationality in any challenging situation.

Practice Yoga


Yoga is an ancient Indian form of spiritual exercise of mind & body. Yoga is quite beneficial for the balancing of emotions. In yoga the breathing exercise which is known as pranayama yoga. It is a great breathing exercise which calms down your blood pressure, controls heart rate, stabilizes the body metabolism. By practicing 15 min Pranayam you will find yourself whole day calm & mindful. It helps you to tackle the challenging situations more calmly. Yoga retreats or yoga classes are also a good alternative to learn or practice yoga.

 

Meditation

As Yoga the Meditation also a wonderful tool that will keep under control all the negative emotions. Daily practicing meditation keeps you mindful & conscious. Vipassana meditation or transcendental meditation is one the best meditation forms that will keep you soulful & resist you from any kind of negative emotions. You can also join a good meditation retreat or ashram for learning and practice meditation.

 

Engage Yourself with Exercise

Exercise is a good way to discharge your negative feelings. It keeps you healthy and free from the thoughts that made you emotionally unbalanced.

 

Don’t React, Be Responsive Mindfully to the Situation


Don’t react immediately, try to respond to the situation mindfully. Reacting immediately to any emotional situation can be a big mistake. There are chances that you will say or do something you will later regret. Try to be responsive to the situation don’t be reactive. Before giving any response take a deep breath and stabilize your mental impulse. I suggest to simply practice the pranayama yoga or anulom vilom for 5 min simple inhale & exhale the air. This will normalize your blood pressure & heart rate. As you become calmer & stable now you can respond to the situation mindfully.

 

Avoid Negative or Toxic people

Well said by George Washington “It is better to be alone than in bad company”
if you hang out or stay in the company of negative people definitely it will affect our own mental state of mind. We become more be like those people. If you are regularly hanging out with people who are angry, irritable and depressing, you will eventually become like them. It’s difficult to be in control of our emotions when we spend a lot of time with people who push our buttons in the wrong way.