Master Your Emotions: A Practical Guide to Overcome Negativity and Better Manage Your Feelings (Mastery Series Book 1)

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If you're too busy and can't commit to a twenty-minute sesh, doing three or ten-minute mindful breathing exercises is better than nothing.

Don’t be satisfied with “happy”: seek out and use more specific words like “ecstatic,” “blissful” and “inspired. Emotions – such as interest, sadness, and anger – are crucial factors in such motivation, driving us to both act and react. You’ll love this practical, no frills program, because the results are easy to achieve once you’ve decided to Master Your Emotions .

But, to give you the gist of it: self-awareness is about looking at yourself from a third-person perspective and observing your emotions objectively and non-judgementally. By reminding yourself of this little mantra ‘This, too, shall pass’ you will ground yourself in reality and not give too much unnecessary attention to your bodily sensations. Everyone who has ever picked up a self-help book will be familiar with the numerous similar mantras (self affirmation, positive thinking, zen quotations, and so on), and the author of many of these books actually quotes from other self-help books. This is the key thing to remember: YOU are the source of all your emotions, you are the one who creates them.

It also helps you recognize when specific circumstances, like trouble at work or family conflict, contribute to harder-to-control emotions.People who exhibit higher emotional granularity go to the doctor less frequently, use medication less frequently, and spend fewer days hospitalized for illness. Learning to separate physical sensations from the negative emotions that accompany them can even help sufferers of chronic pain crave fewer painkillers and view pain as a merely physical sensation rather than “a personal catastrophe” (Barrett, 2012).