Good emotional intelligence represents good emotional management, which has a great impact on interpersonal relationships in daily life. What should I do if I easily lose control of my emotions? How can negative emotions be relieved? There are 5 ways to learn to manage your emotions.
What is Emotion Management?
Emotions are innate emotions of human beings. Joy, anger, sadness, joy, worry, fear, annoyance, and jealousy can all be included in emotions. Emotions are stimulated by the outside world. Studies have found that more than 6,000 thoughts flash through a person’s mind in a day, which is enough to show the importance of emotions in individual life. Good emotional management has more positive benefits in the workplace and life.
Foreign studies have found that improper emotional management is very harmful to the company. Common inappropriate emotions in the workplace include anger, worry, fear, sadness, etc., when these inappropriate emotions are not sorted out. Being trapped in negative emotions for a long time will not only affect interpersonal relationships, but may also reduce work performance and employee loyalty, and the overall output value will also be greatly reduced.
What Are the Causes of Emotional Loss?
- Stress and fatigue: Appropriate pressure is of great help to people’s progress, but huge pressure may also crush people. Modern people are under high work pressure, coupled with the economic downturn, which often makes people breathless. There is a condition in psychology called Ego Depletion, which refers to an individual’s pursuit of work and daily mental wear and tear that is too great, making people emotionally unstable and prone to anger over trivial matters.
- Interpersonal trust: When it comes to interpersonal relationships, the most important layer must be trust. If there is no trust between each other, people will start to defend themselves and even magnify small things. Finally, conflicts occur. Conflicts occur frequently in modern society. A small collision may lead to fists, kicks, or even knives and guns. The reason may be due to the loss of trust.
For these two reasons, emotional loss can be divided into two situations. The first situation isemotional pressure cooker. Chinese culture advocates teamwork, perseverance and other traits. If you have been covering up and suppressing your inappropriate emotions, they will explode one day if they continue to accumulate.
Another situation is emotional bombs. These people are never aware of their bad moods. They may be in a high position, so there is no need to tolerate them. Once things go wronan g, they will let their bombs explode randomly, hurting themselves and those around them.
What Is an Emotion Management Disorder?
- Unusual emotional reactions: Excessive emotional reactions to small things, such as getting angry or crying.
- Emotional instability: unable to maintain a calm emotional state, prone to getting angry due to small external stimuli, or experiencing multiple emotional expressions in a short period.
- Difficulty in controlling emotions: Unable to effectively control one’s emotions, prone to anger, and often speak arrogantly or have difficulty expressing one’s thoughts when angry.
- Impact on daily life: The problem of emotional management disorder has affected daily life and interpersonal relationships, and even evolved into physical and mental diseases.
How to Relieve Negative Emotions?
- Before a bad temper breaks out, take a deep breath to reduce stress and get yourself into a thinking state. The steps are simple, take a deep breath for 3 seconds, hold your breath for 2 seconds, and exhale for 4 seconds. After doing it several times, although I am still a little unhappy, the volcano in my heart has stopped the urge to erupt. Then I can start to think and analyze how to deal with emotions and events.
- There are hundreds of ways to vent your emotions. You can talk to relatives and friends, or you can use exercise or meditation to divert your attention and eliminate the unhappiness in your heart. Or have a good sleep and face a new and beautiful day. The worst thing is to vent your emotions in ways that harm your body, such as drinking, taking drugs, smoking, etc. These substances can only temporarily paralyze the nerves and will bring about a stronger sense of loss after the joyful feeling, which is not conducive to emotional control.