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

by Thibaut Meurisse

you over-identify with your emotions and cling to them for the following reasons: They’re part of the story you’re telling yourself. Sometimes, you can’t stop clinging to a story even a disempowering one. Yes, you can become addicted to destructive stories despite knowing they aren’t helping you. You believe the emotions are you and feel a strong need to identify with them. You may fall into the trap ...

letting go of core emotions is not easy. They’ve become part of our identity, and we often derive a twisted pleasure from them.

there are three different ways to release your emotions as they arise. You can: Let them go. When you experience negative emotions, you can consciously choose to release them rather than repressing them or clinging to them Allow them to be here. You can allow them by acknowledging their existence without clinging to them, or you can Welcome them. You can accept them and have a closer look at them to discover what the core of these emotions are.

five-step process to let go of your emotions: Step 1: Focus on a certain emotion you would like to work on so you can feel better.

Step 2: ask yourself one of the following questions: Could I let this feeling go? Could I allow this feeling to be here? Could I welcome this feeling?

Step 3: Then ask yourself, “Would I?” Would I let this feeling go? Would I allow this feeling to be here? Would I welcome this feeling?

Answer yes or no to each question while being honest with yourself.

Step 4: Ask yourself, “When”? Your answer will be, “Now.” You let go of that emotion immediately. Step 5: Repeat this process as many times as necessary for that particular feeling to disappear.

Try to see that a thought about a person or event is merely a thought about that person or event. It is the thought about them that makes you feel the way you do. To change the way you feel, change the way you think.

Buddha allegedly said, “What you think, you become.”

The essayist and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, said, “We become what we think about all day long,”

Mahatma Gandhi said, “A man is but the product o...

Your thoughts activate certain emotions, and these emotions, in turn, generate more thoughts. Thoughts and emotions then feed each other.

Thoughts generate emotions and emotions dictate your actions.

this is the way thoughts work. They generate emotions that dictate your actions and shape your reality.

a thought in itself isn’t enough to manifest things or circumstances. It must be fueled with an energy in the form of emotion, such as enthusiasm, excitement, passion, or happiness. For this reason, someone enthusiastic about his or her dream will achieve more than a pessimistic and unmotivated person.

one of the most important skills you can master is your ability to control your thoughts and emotions. This entails understanding what your emotions are, how they work, and what purpose they serve.

Confident people deposit positive thoughts in their mind each day. They celebrate their small wins and treat themselves with compassion and respect.

Thought manipulation is simply one of the tools you can use to master your emotions.

Unless you know how to deal with negative emotions when they appear, you’ll fall prey to your own disempowering story.

To condition your mind, the first step is to decide what emotion(s) you want to experience more of.

The second step is to put in place a specific program to allow you to experience your chosen emotion(s). The final step is to practice feeling that emotion every day.

To condition your mind to experience positive emotions, you can use the method we introduced earlier:

Interpretation + identification + repetition = strong emotion Here is how to use the formula in this situation: Interpretation: Visualizing certain events or generating particular thoughts you see as positive. Identification: Identifying with these events or thoughts by feeling the way you want to feel. To do this you can use all the techniques we mentioned in the section, ‘What impacts your emotions,’ such as positive affirmations and visualization.

Repetition: Keep repeating the same thoughts and identifying with them. By doing so, you allow your mind to access ...

there is only one rule when it comes to productivity, success, or getting everything you ever wanted: you have to do something whether you feel like it or not.

Her 5 Second Rule states you have five seconds from the moment you have an idea to the moment you take action. If you fail to act within these five seconds, your mind will talk you out of it. The nature of the mind is to prevent us from doing anything scary or tiring.

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” Make sure you surround yourself with the right people.