How can I deal with my emotions?

There are many ways for one to deal with their emotions. You can start by increasing your self-awareness. How you act in specific situations and what triggers certain emotions.

Emotions can be overwhelming at times, and make it hard for us to not only deal with crisis, but our day to day lives as well. Two of the most helpful things you can do to deal with emotions is to accept them for what they are and practice accurately identifying what you are feeling. Sometimes feelings just have to pass and we have to be patient with ourselves. There are no right or wrong emotions. They are just there, and having certain emotions do not define who you are, do not indicate your goodness or badness, and do not have to dictate your actions (even thought it might seem that they do). Accepting emotions as a natural response to events in your life takes the judgment out of them and lessens the spiral that so often results when we start blaming ourselves for having our feelings. Without judgement we can more effectively move towards self care by seeking support when we are sad, understanding when we are angry, companionship when lonely. It is difficult to manage emotions if you don't know what you are feeling. Is it fear, anger, embarrassment? A combination, more likely? It's good to examine what your primary and secondary emotions are. Often anger is a secondary reaction to fear. If we just try to deal with the anger, then likely we will not resolve the cause of our feelings. Practicing identifying your emotions can help you deal more effectively because you'll be more likely to seek out appropriate help and support for what is really causing you the upset. Finally, sometimes we find it hard to identify a feeling and just have to sit with it until it passes, or until we can sense more clearly what we are feeling exactly. There are times when we are unable to either find relief or even identify exactly what we are feeling, so we may have to be kind and patient with ourselves while we sit with it and let it pass. If you find your emotions are unmanageable and are overwhelming you it can help to chat with a listener here at 7 cups, browse the self-help articles on our site, or seek professional help if you are in crisis.

In order to deal with your emotions, it can be an incredible help to talk to one of the listeners here at 7 Cups of Tea. Having someone who you can spill your heart out to in an anonymous setting can drastically change how you feel. Sometimes all a person needs is someone to talk to and that is why I am an intern listener here.

A good way to deal with emotions is to find out what they are and what triggers them. Try a mood diary and say what is happening at that time. Avoid any triggers that occur. Ask yourself why you feel the way you do.

Calm down. Take deep breaths. Distract yourself with things you love. Find support with those you trust.

Depending on how much emotions that you have not dealt with in the past. If you can handle it then look for the root cause of the trigger for that emotion and deal with it. But if it is difficult for you to deal with it by yourself then seek help.

try to clear your head and calm yourself down by closing your eyes and take deep breaths, and repeat it all over again :)

Talk to someone whom you can trust, because talking is really therapeutic and when you start talking don't keep anything in, express what you are feeling because it has a powerful impact on what you are feeling, I have tried it a lot and I think it would work for you like it worked for me

Taking a deep breath...observing thots and feelings it causes....n letting go of negative thots.....

Emotions are very hard to deal with. When a new one appears, specially if it is one that you don't like Denial will kick in as a Defense Mechanism. The best way to deal with emotions is to be honest with them, try to name them and try to identify where they are coming from.