How to control emotions?

Effective ways to control emotions include: admitting one's emotional weaknesses, controlling one's desires, and learning to correctly understand and deal with various contradictions in society.

1. Acknowledge your own emotional weaknesses

Everyone has his own strengths and weaknesses, strengths and weaknesses in his emotional world. For this reason, he must understand his own emotional world. Weaknesses and shortcomings cannot be avoided or turned a blind eye.

2. Control your own desires

People’s emotional behaviors are mostly caused by their own desires and needs not being satisfied. When a person's behavior is only related to the "merit" and "benefit" related to the word "I" and cannot be satisfied, and is only related to the "material desires" that can satisfy one's own needs, the behavior becomes unsatisfactory. Being simple and superficial will produce short-sighted and violent reactions.

It is necessary to lower excessive expectations and correct the relationship between "request and contribution, gain and giving". Only by strengthening rational understanding can it be possible to prevent blind emotional behavior.

3. We must learn to correctly understand and deal with various conflicts in society

Many emotional behaviors are caused by the inability to understand and deal with conflicts between people. , so we must learn how to understand problems. We must not go to extremes, be one-sided, generalize from a few points, metaphysics, or subjectivism. This will only increase our negative and pessimistic emotions and make ourselves heavier and heavier.

We must learn to observe problems comprehensively, look more at the mainstream, look at the bright side, look at the positive side, conduct multi-faceted observations from multiple angles and viewpoints, and be able to go deep into reality, This will enable him to discover meaning and value that he could not find before and make him more optimistic. This will increase his courage to overcome difficulties and increase his hope and confidence. Even if he encounters serious setbacks, he will not be discouraged or give up.

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People who cannot control their emotions and are prone to making mistakes

1. Patients with depression

The negative emotions they have suppressed for a long time Without effective guidance, it is like a balloon constantly inflated by negative emotions. After receiving a little stimulation, it may explode in an instant, leading to abnormal behavior.

2. People with impulse control disorders

They often cannot control their emotions. When encountering special pressure, they will behave out of control. The purpose of their behavior is only to gain self-esteem. Psychological satisfaction or relief from mental tension.

3. Patients with split personality and mental illness

They have extreme thoughts and strong psychology of revenge and jealousy. When exposed to external stimulation, their psychology undergoes a malignant transformation, leading to aggressive criminal behavior.

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