Business Strategy E-Magazine August 2021

We all experience different
emotions everyday. We
have also felt these emotions controlling
us. We have acted impulsively,
only to regret it later or felt
disconnected with our emotions
and numb emotionally. These all
can be indicators that we need to
work on our emotional balance.
To understand this better, we need
to gain insight into how emotions
work and learn strategies to manage
overwhelming feelings, especially
during turbulent times.
Difficult situations derail us. It is
in the difficult situations that we
want to get off the “emotional rollercoaster”,
even out our extreme
mood swings and bring some
emotional balance.
Emotions are inevitable – we constantly
feel a range of emotions in
life all the time. Plethora of emotions
like stress, fatigue, sadness,
anger, anxiety is what makes us
human. Emotions make us who
we are, and are not generally spoken
of, but impact the overall
quality of our life, our whole being.
How we handle the emotions
differentiates us from each other.
They also play a crucial role in decision
making. While there are
lot of rational thoughts, our decisions
unconsciously come from
our feelings.
Emotions are a fool-proof guidance
system. Through evolution,
humans have been designed to
feel emotions. Every single emotion
gives us a message, allows us
to move forward in life. If I am
feeling angry, it is a huge message
for me that something is not right.
If I am feeling fear, I know there
is some part of me that is feeling
threatened at the moment. If I am
content, it’s a clear indication that
I am at peace at the moment. If I
am feeling joy, then I know that I’m
aligned with who I am as a person.
Through our life experiences, we
consider some emotions acceptable,
and some unacceptable.
3 Primary Unacceptable Emotions
1. Anger
2. Sadness
3. Fear
Now we all experience these always
disabling emotions, the only
difference being that we access all
these emotions differently. For
example, in any kind of difficult
or tough situation, I personally
feel angry easily, and then perhaps
sad, but I normally don’t feel
fear as quick. The reason behind
this is that I have been raised in an
environment where expression of
anger was acceptable, but to have
fear, or to not have the courage to
handle perhaps was not so acceptable.
And hence, I judge myself
for feeling fear. Fear for me is being
weak. Even when I am feeling
fearful, the expression that will
come out would be anger as I will
cover my feeling of fear with it;
remember, for me – FEAR is not
an expression that I can easily accept.
And there is nothing wrong
or right here because we all feel
these emotions constantly but not
with the same intensity. We tend
to access one emotion more than
the other easily because of the
way we have been brought up or
learnt life. Required is to identify
our dominant emotion.
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