What to do about emotions

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• About this program?
• About Emotions
  • Understanding Emotions
  • Attribute-Behavior Model
  • The Emotional Process
  • Recognize our Emotions
  • Identify our Emotions
  • Examine our Emotions
  • Releasing our Emotions
  • Reflect on our Emotions
• Our beliefs
  • Our Manual: The Bible
  • Our Model: Jesus
  • Self Value
  • How does God see me
  • Understanding the World
  • Putting it together
• Unhealthy Symptoms
  • Emotional Detachment
  • Depression
  • Addictions
  • Guilt
  • Legalism
  • Condemnation
• Emotional Health
  • Self Awareness
  • Self Content
  • Whole Person in-sync
• Emotional Hurts
  • Source of Hurts
  • Relive our Hurts
• Emotional Transformation
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive Yourself
  • Social Awareness
  • Relationship Management

Can you Control Your Emotions?

• You cannot change or control your emotions.
• You can learn how to be with them, living peacefully with them, transmuting them (which means releasing them), and you can manage them,
• But you cannot control them

The Beach Ball

We try to stop thoughts, but that's impossible. It's like trying to constantly hold an enormous inflatable beach ball under the water, but it keeps popping up in front of our faces. We can allow the ball to float around us, just letting it be. So rather than stop the thoughts, we can stop fighting them, and let them be, without reacting to them. (Vivyan 2009)

Wrong ways of handling Emotions

1. Denial
2. Repression
3. Rationalization
4. Emotional Insulation