Master Your Emotions: A Practical Guide to Overcome Negativity and Better Manage Your Feelings (Mastery Series Book 1)

by Thibaut Meurisse

Feelings manifest as physical sensations in your body, not as an idea in your mind.

Your emotions can make your life miserable or truly magical.

Your emotions can also act as a powerful guide. They can tell you something is wrong and allow you to make changes in your life.

One of a human being’s greatest powers is our ability to use our thoughts to shape our reality and interpret events in a more empowering way.

A great example of this effect is social media, which uses psychology to suck as much time as possible out of your life.

To take control of your emotions, you must understand the role dopamine plays and how it affects your happiness. Are you addicted to your phone? Are you glued to your TV? Or maybe you spend too much time playing video games. Most of us are addicted to something. For some people it’s obvious, but for others, it’s more subtle. For instance, you could be addicted to thinking. To better control your emotions, you must recognize and shed the light on your addictions as they can rob you of your happiness.

in the long run, external events have minimal impact on your level of happiness.

fifty percent of our happiness is determined by genetics, forty percent by internal factors, and only ten percent by external factors. These external factors include such things as whether we’re single or married, rich or poor, and similar social influences.

Your attitude towards life influences your happiness, not what happens to you.

Your ego is a selfish entity, only concerned about its survival. Interestingly, it’s somewhat similar to your brain in the way it operates. It has its survival mechanism and will do whatever it can to persist.

They know people don’t just buy a product, they also purchase the emotions or story attached to the product.

It’s a negative issue only when you become overly attached to material things, believing they can fulfill you—which they can’t.

The ego is never satisfied. Your ego always wants more. More fame, more stuff, more recognition, and so on.