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Negative Emotional outbursts: Manage and overcoming them.
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Understanding them
Negative outbursts come from a place of repressed anger and emotional avoidance.
NB it doesn't have to come from yourself, you can be on the receiving end.
Negative outbursts come from a place of repressed anger and emotional avoidance.
NB it doesn't have to come from yourself, you can be on the receiving end.
Emotional avoidance is when we follow our habitual mindset from our learned behaviours.
Many learn to ignore and repress their emotions as a child - Ignoring them only makes things worse.
This is called emotional avoidance.
Many learn to ignore and repress their emotions as a child - Ignoring them only makes things worse.
This is called emotional avoidance.
Some people who experience negative emotions use unhealthy behaviours such as:
- Binge Eating
- Alcohol use
- Drug use
- Even Excessive exercise.
These are all coping mechanisms that provide a short term resolution but not a permanent one.
- Binge Eating
- Alcohol use
- Drug use
- Even Excessive exercise.
These are all coping mechanisms that provide a short term resolution but not a permanent one.
Accept your negative emotions with open arms.
Anger can be used in your favour, it can be used towards more productive tasks rather than an outburst.
It causes chemical changes within your body, hormone levels increase and heart rate rises.
Anger can be used in your favour, it can be used towards more productive tasks rather than an outburst.
It causes chemical changes within your body, hormone levels increase and heart rate rises.
Use the negative emotions to serve you by:
- Notice negative self talk and replace it with positive
- Surround yourself with positive people
- Stay in the present moment by focusing on what is happening
- Be thankful for the good things in your life, even if bad at the moment.
- Notice negative self talk and replace it with positive
- Surround yourself with positive people
- Stay in the present moment by focusing on what is happening
- Be thankful for the good things in your life, even if bad at the moment.
But either put them to bed or express them in a safe place.
Expressing them immediately will only blow things out of proportion and cause even more stress and unnecessary anguish.
It is important to express them nevertheless.
Expressing them immediately will only blow things out of proportion and cause even more stress and unnecessary anguish.
It is important to express them nevertheless.
- Take the time out of the situations to calm your emotions
- Explain to those involved your reasons for feeling the way you do
- Write in your journal about why things are so difficult
- Workout, it can completely change your mood
- Change your environment by going for a walk
- Explain to those involved your reasons for feeling the way you do
- Write in your journal about why things are so difficult
- Workout, it can completely change your mood
- Change your environment by going for a walk
How to receive them:
- It is important to forgive them, to begin with
- Consider if you are misplacing the blame, understand their perspective
- Try to gain an understanding for their negative emotions
- Ignore them and do not let them affect you
- Give them time to calm down
- It is important to forgive them, to begin with
- Consider if you are misplacing the blame, understand their perspective
- Try to gain an understanding for their negative emotions
- Ignore them and do not let them affect you
- Give them time to calm down
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