Achieving a high EQ (which requires controlling runaway emotions), as we have discussed, requires implementing some helpful tools. Previously, we have discussed two of these tools: breathing and applying your brakes. Two additional ones are paramount to achieving our goal: resisting negative thoughts and long-term training of your mind. Both involve your mind. Therefore, consider the importance of the health of your mind to your success.
Tool #3 for Controlling Runaway Emotion: Resist Negative Thoughts
Negative emotions live off negative thoughts. When we fight our runaway emotions, negative thinking will keep returning to gain control of our mind even if we have successfully changed to a positive mental landscape. Resisting repeatedly is not only possible and easier the more we resist, but it is the path to mental control — laborious at times, but effective.
Long-term Training of Your Mind Is Tool #4
The amygdala is not only the speedster in the brain, always grabbing the first response to any concern, but it is also the hot spot of emotional response. How can we cool this warning device? Two methods will help in the long term. We’ll discuss them in the next article.
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THE WONDERFUL TRUTH ABOUT EMOTION
Are there such things as intelligent emotions? Intelligently Emotional will argue that there are. And they are the ones we must focus on if we want to know success.
Ray W. Lincoln will demonstrate how understanding the patterns of emotion in our temperament enables us to manage our emotions effectively. If you long to know how to understand your emotions and the immense power of your feelings, Intelligently Emotional will show you the way. The path to real emotional intelligence requires learning to partner with intelligent emotions.
DISCOVER THE TRUTH OF WHO YOU ARE!
Lean into the whole truth. Discover the truth of who YOU are — the “Real You” — and who your children truly are. Learn how to effectively engage your children in discovering the whole truth. INNERKINETICS, Your Blueprint to Excellence, will guide you in that
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Our first and most important task in a world-changing mission is to learn how to think straight (and teach straight thinking) and combat the insurgency of crooked thinking in our culture and in the world today. If we become passive victims of this crooked way of thinking, we promote it. Furthermore, if we remain silent, we also give it credence. In Who Am I?, the reader progresses from how we have become “crooked thinkers” to how to break out of this prison of the mind to become instruments of change for a better world. We achieve this by recognizing the source of our value as humans. “Build a straight and powerful mind.” ~ Ray W. Lincoln