How to overcome negative emotions

Emotions are two way traffic.  It propels you to prosper, means you can grow fast in your life, if you utilize emotions in the right way.  Emotions also dispel your desire to grow, if you are afflicted with the bad influences and negative habits. So, it is our greatest strength and at the same time, it is to be considered as the weakest link also. This emotion is classified in two types, one is positive and the other one is negative.  Positive emotions remind us the state of love, congeniality, conviviality and happiness, whereas negative emotions are associated with hatred, jealousy, envy, selfishness, outburst, avarice, quarrel and violence.  It is advisable to increase the positive emotions and downplay the effects of negative emotions to make the life more plausible. Negative emotions are the main causes to diminish and deteriorate the physical and psychological personalities of a person.  A person who is sloughed with this emotion on a regular basis, not only he will damage his education, career, growth and family, but also he will lose his peace and harmony to think in an effective manner. Persons who are habitually attached to negative emotions will be selfish, busy without any business and mostly, unsocial. These emotions are the root cause to increase the stress level. If you are always stressed, the reason is that you are not loaded with your office work or you are not disturbed because of any unpleasant events at home or you are not that hurt by any sarcastic comments of your peers or colleagues; it is basically because you are not able to move from the shackles of negative emotions, which always cloud you. Because of negative pattern of thinking, these people are not able to transcend the barriers of negative emotions.  They do not find any positivity in their lives.  Negative people are by nature, always suspicious minded. If someone achieves any feat in his life, they see the same either as his luck or think that because of some favor from some source, he might have achieved the feat. They mostly wish to criticize and do not want to praise anyone for their kudos. They seldom use any type of appreciation for anyone for their good job done. They only exaggerate the dark side of the life and in this process lose their creativity.

Emotion has a direct bearing on your mood, temperament, personality and attitudinal behavior. Your emotional outburst changes your mood and this change may make you less energetic to carry out your duties effectively.  Emotion is a cognitive behavior and one of the important aspects of life.  Positive emotions are the benchmark of anybody’s success, whereas negative emotions lead you to miserable situations and make you sad.  When you are drenched with negative emotions, you will recognize everything in a negative manner and you will identify yourself as useless.  Ultimately, you will be feeling very less confident to perform any activities.  Gradually, you will lose all enthusiasm and you fail to express your views with clarity.  In the long run, you will lose your mental balance.  If you study the tenets of the Gita, you will find that this religious book teaches us to control our emotions and remain calm in almost all the situations of life. Though, it may not be possible always, but these teachings are the yardstick of a stress free life. One has to understand that emotion, whether positive or negative, are a byproduct of external stimulus.  Our soul is completely independent of the mind. 

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We are provoked with all the symptoms of perception and emotions evolved out of our mind.  For emotional balance, you should not react suddenly to anything.  Based on the influence of emotions, people don’t think properly. So, at that point of time, you take ample time to think, try to find out the facts, assess the situation and then, come to the conclusion for initiating any action. Otherwise, taking any action impulsively will increase your pain.  In emotional stage, never be judgmental.  Though positive emotion is good for personal and professional reason, but taking decisions on the basis of discrimination is not that good.

To counter negative emotions, learn to always talk  in positive vibes, which provides you mental strength  Emotional balance is a genetic as well as an acquired syndrome. You can acquire the same either from your group or friends circle. To mingle with negative persons or if you are mostly in the company of the people who always criticize others and their work; you will also tend to be a negative person.  It is better to avail the company of positive configured persons.  Emotional balance is not a creative output, but if you practice, you can adopt the technique.  This happens when we allow things to happen in its own form and not showing any reaction irrespective of its end result – good or bad.  Emotional balance is very much essential for our healthy life.

We expect freedom when we are under the influence of positive emotions.  Contrarily, negative emotions block our self-development. Then, we don't allow ourselves for transformation.  During the stage of negative emotions, one should not engage in any type of quarrels or arguments; that will increase the intensity of negative emotions.  Negative emotions create a negative aura and flush the environment with negative vibes.  Hearing religious talks, songs, listening to spiritual talks and engage in the studies of religious books always help you to remain positive. You have to face tough conditions, bad phase, distress and unavoidable circumstances in your life and this is very common, but all these phases are not perpetual.  As the good time is not going to remain for long, the same is apparently true for bad period. You have to be always faithful to God, particularly, when you have to deal with negative emotions. 

God protects us from negative emotions, provided you remember Him very sincerely.  Negative emotions increase our negative perception; negative thinking and more importantly, we become psychologically negative.  Negative emotions make us sadist and snatch our joy and happiness.  People afflicted with negative emotions even doubt God’s blessings and His care for human beings.  Negative emotions are not a permanent aspect of life; it is a seasonal, you must have courage to change those harmful emotions to positive emotions.  That is how you can control negative emotions.