Emotional Management

Work with your feelings not against them!

Your emotions and feelings protect us, and give our lives richness. If emotions become overwhelming they can also be the cause of undue stress, and erratic behavior. Journaling can help balance and regulate your emotions and feel more comfortable and directed in your emotional life. Every day provides emotional conflict. Knowing how and when to release your emotions makes the ongoing feelings easier to cope with.

Powerful Tools to make lasting change

• Design your plan to make change
• Uncover automatic thoughts and change old patterns of thinking
• Lean skills to relax and cope with demanding and stressful situations
• Examine and change core beliefs that can keep you feeling stuck
• Use mindfulness to develop a clearer picture of the present moment.

Journaling helps you to understand the processes of your emotional system and how to think clearly about your feelings as they happen. As a result, you’ll experience a greater sense of flexibility within yourself and an ongoing confidence in how to live with your emotions.

Seven essential Skills of Emotion Management

1. Distance yourself from your emotions
2. Define what your emotions mean to you
3. Release blocked and conflicting feelings
4. Regain focus while experiencing overwhelming emotions
5. Use structure and organization to clarify feelings
6. Regroup after an emotional set back
7. Maintain your new skills and incorporate them into your life.

These are some of the ways to apply these skills to your life.

• Journaling
• Meditation
• Yoga
• Walking
• Mindfulness

Learning to adapt to your emotional state produces a strong sense of personal power.