How do I stop being overwhelmed by negative emotions?

Peace is to chaos as breath is to anxiety. As one expands the other contracts, you can expand your peace the same way you expand your lungs. Breathe deep.

You can stop being overwhelmed by negative emotions by learning to accept the things that cannot be changed. Have the courage to do this and have determination to move on in your life. Let yourself see the positivities ahead.

Crowd your negative emotions with positive ones! When you have a negative emotion, cancel it out with a positive, even if you don't believe it. One day you will!

Negative emotions can get the best of us. When I find myself being overwhelmed by negative emotions, I find the best thing for me to do it distract myself. Watching tv or playing a game can be a great escape. Sometimes, talking about those negative emotions helps too. And I'm not talking about long-winded therapy sessions. Sometimes just admitting aloud that emotion I am feeling can help. Just saying aloud, "I feel sad...or bad...or frustrated" can help, and I'm not afraid to tell my friends how I'm feeling either.

When I hear a question like this for some reason I always remember a book I read in the 80's call "What to say when you talk to yourself". In short, it was basically saying that in order for us to be motivated and positive, we have to know what to say to ourselves when we are negative. The truth is emotions are there for a reason and we must understand what caused them before we can fix them. We certainly don't want to turn off our emotions but rather take note and move to a more productive or pleasant ones as we talk through the root causes. Talking to yourself sound silly or even crazy, but it helps to reinforce good things and positive things, just as it can reinforce bad things. Instead of saying "No one like me or wants to be around me." we need to say things like "I really a compassionate person who truly cares for others." Other cliches that come to mind are "Look for the silver lining" or "Look at the bright side" and so on. The most important thing is you feeling good about you, then when those negative emotions try to sneak in, you will have a strong defense in positive reinforcement ready to fight.

Lie down, put your hand on your heart, say "love" in your mind, and feel the emotions coming and going, like clouds passing through the sky.

Talk to someone, write them down, talk to a friend it overcomes the negativity. Physical exercise or even dancing helps

The best tool I have found at managing emotional stress is meditation. Meditation is really easy to get started with and there are many levels of skill with it. But anyone can start at anytime. There are many guides and videos out there on it too. Meditation also helps in other areas of one's life besides just managing emotions.

By doing thing you like and love most of the time, and stop thinking for a minute. You should also takl with someone or go out more time. And soon enought you will forget.

Here's an exercise: Every time you find yourself thinking a negative thought, find some way to make it positive. For example, if you're thinking, "Ahh school is starting soon :(" just consciously change it to "I'm excited to go to school and be able to learn new things and see all my friends again". Even if you don't believe, finding the good things in the bad makes your life better as a whole. Soon, you'll find that negative emotions rise up a lot less and you think more positively.