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Content Writer|| Mental Health Awareness Writer|| Mental Health Counselor  Mar 2, 2024


Our Emotions have a significant power over our choices and actions,


and we can either become a master or salve to them.


Managing our emotions helps us make decisions, big or small.


Understanding our emotions allows us to become conscious of triggers, so we can accumulate insight into how to respond constructively.


What do we think emotions are?


Emotions are conscious mental reactions (such as anger or fear), 

subjectively experienced as strong feelings usually directed towards a 


specific object, and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body.


There are 27 categories of emotions,  and we have the main types of emotions ( joy, fear, sadness, disgust, and anger).


These main types of emotions show up in our everyday lives.


We can manage and control our emotions as it is important in making decisions and also solving critical issues.


We can control our emotions by:


✅ Identifying what we are feeling

✅ Self-care

✅ Maintaining healthy relationships

✅ Practicing mindfulness

✅ Accepting our Positive and Negative Emotions

✅ Practicing Optimism and Laughing

✅ Positive Self-talk

✅ Taking a deep breath

✅ knowing how to respond to our emotions

✅ Giving ourselves some space.


Not to Mince Words,

Emotions are hard, but that’s what makes you strong!!


Those who think emotional people are weak should know, that the same emotion gives strength.


Each time someone tries to break you, unknowingly, they make you stronger.


You own your thoughts. . No one has the right any of you without your permission.


You will never cross an emotional bridge if you keep rushing back to the other side.


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