How to Manage Your Emotions - Being Grateful.

In my last post we looked at the first step in helping you to manage your emotions, which involved recognising what the emotion was.

Managing your emotions then involves being grateful. Every time you recognise that you are feeling an emotion, happy or sad, pleased or disappointed, condition yourself to feel grateful.

Emotions are signs on the roadmap to fulfillment. They help us understand ourselves better, each one we feel helps us to understand who we are and how to make our lives even more amazing.

For example, if we feel overwhelmed by work, this emotion is giving us a sign. It is telling us that we have to change the way we work (so that we feel less overwhelmed), or to change the way we look at work (so that we recognise it's benefits, or see it for what it is, just work, nothing more).

You see, it is all about process and perception.

Being grateful for an emotion, any emotion, means recognising that the emotion is a sign telling us that we have to change either a process or a perception.

So someone makes us angry (or just annoyed, if you remember last post!). At the being grateful stage of managing our emotion we realise that we have a sign here. This sign is telling us to change either our process or our perception.

Therefore, we either change our process, and kick in some calming techniques like deep breathing or visualisation...

Or we change our perception, which involves realising that the person probably doesn't mean it, or that we are annoyed at something that is really quite small in the grand scheme of things etc.

Either way, if we pursue these changes with energy and faith, we will feel better.

Which is why we should be grateful for emotions, because of the positive effect they can bring. They are signs that tell us to change our lives.

This post is becoming long, so let's recap. The second stage in managing your emotions is to be grateful, because emotions help us to manage and adapt our lives, realign, if you will.

So show some gratitude, and read the signs that emotions give you.