Unlock the Secret to Emotional Wellness by David Snape

Can you remember a time when you became a little irritated with

someone and made a sharp comment that may have hurt, one which you

later regretted? Have you ever writhed in the pain of emotional agony

over some loss or missed opportunity? Do you recall a time when you

felt so overwhelmed by emotion that you withdrew from everything and

everyone? In any of these cases to a lesser or greater degree the

emotional part of your brain has produced a questionable response or

perhaps a response that you may have regretted later.

Researchers generally agree that there is an appropriate 'alarm'

system in the brain. This system effectively overrides the thinking

part of your brain in emergencies and causes an action or reaction

that can be life saving.

The same system causes you problems when it creates inappropriate and

unreasonable responses in your daily life in non-life threatening

situations. Maybe your loved ones see your anger and it hurts them or

your relationship to them. Perhaps you experience other consequences

that would have been averted had you greater control over your

emotional brain.

You can exert control over the reactionary part of your gray matter.

The first step is realizing why these unwanted and seemingly

uncontrollable responses happen. Just being cognizant that your

emotional alarm system sometimes triggers at inappropriate times is

half the battle. With awareness, you will be primed to take the next

step.

Using your will to produce a calmer state is the second step. You'll

want to exert some effort from the rational or thinking part of your

brain. Your thinking mind must not be timid and should be a bit

stronger in applying a conscious influence over your emotional

reactions. You can learn to control the alarm response with

persistence and patience and reset the threshold to a more appropriate

'setting'.

Once you begin to recognize the emotional response before it happens,

you begin to develop the ability to stop that response and engage the

more rational part of your brain.

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BIO:

Dave Snape is a health, fitness and wellness enthusiast. His website
is http://tobeinformed.com Dave also practices Falun Dafa

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