Emotions are a powerful factor affecting our lives. Emotions at the very root of it is generated by specific ways of perceiving. What we think as reality creates the reactions in us. Imagine someone points near your leg and yells snake! Your reactions would be of fear and your body will immediately get tensed up in a fight or flight mode. How did this reaction come about? From the emotional response. How did the emotional response naturally come as fear? Well, it is due to the specific way of thinking which in turn generates the fear. Now why is a snake to be feared? Well, its but can be poisonous and you may die. But, do you know that the chances of dying of snake bite is nearly zero in North America, Australia and Europe. In more tropical countries the snakes are more common but the first response of the snake is to escape, it is as afraid of you as you are of it. But our reactions are not informed by this. We panic and become desperate. Can we change our reaction by thinking differently about snakes? Yes of course! Here is a powerful video where Kerwin Rae helps a participant at his seminar overcome fear of snakes and touch snakes for the first time in her life.
Imagine the amount of mastery you could gain in your life if you could handle emotion with such precision.
How to handle emotions that take over you?
What can you do with intense feeling that overtake you?
Here are some ways to take control:
Step 1- feel the emotions. Don’t suppress any emotion as it remains inside like an air-filled balloon pushed under water…. struggling to come out. It is not only self-defeating; it is unhealthy as well.
Step 2- Breathe Deeply- take in deep breaths and slowly let them out and you will immediately gain control over your perspective creating process.
Step 3- Ask questions on your view of reality? Is there anyone who would have seen this differently. What are your beliefs and ways of perceiving that is leading to this reaction? Keep asking these questions. You will find that as you gain clarity on your specific ways of perceiving, you will also find alternative ways of viewing. Gather as many ways to perceive the situation and ‘reality’.
Step 4. Start accepting and acknowledging the more positive beliefs and perception and you will find your emotions changing.
It may happen in an instant or take more time you have seen the proof. It is possible. So persist and break every shackle that binds you.
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