Are your emotions spiralling out of control!

<p>A lot of the time, it’s all too easy not to be aware of them or to know and understand what you’re feeling. </p> <p>However, your thoughts and emotions will come and go throughout the day.</p> <p> Are you aware of your feelings, and then suddenly overreacted, over a silly little incident at work or home?</p> <p>Do you need to have more control over your emotions and how to understand them better? </p> <p>Here are some suggestions that may help you stay in control. </p> <p><b>See your emotions as information.</b></p> <p>It’s easy to think of emotions as being positive or negative, but it can be helpful to see them merely as information - whether they be good, bad or indifferent. </p> <p>A feeling is just your body’s way of telling you that something around you needs your attention. </p> <p>For example, when you hear a sudden loud noise, you feel scared. </p> <p>You become more alert so you can investigate what’s happening and take action if necessary.</p> <p>It can be fascinating to think about emotions this way. </p> <p>Instead of getting wrapped up in what you are feeling, see if you can ask:</p> <p><b>‘What information is my body sending me? </b></p> <p>What needs my attention right now?’</p> <p><b>Listen to your body</b></p> <p>You usually view emotions as being in your head, but almost all of them can be felt somewhere in your body. </p> <p>Just think about the expression, ‘having a heavy heart’, for when someone is sad, or ‘butterflies in the stomach,” for when a person is nervous.</p> <p>Practise tuning into your body to see if you can work out where you feel different emotions. </p> <p>For example, you can see if you notice sensations like tightness, heaviness, lightness, tingling or movement. </p> <p>See if you do things like clenching your jaw, sighing or fidgeting a lot when you have certain feelings.</p> <p>This can be tricky at first, because you may not be used to thinking about emotions in this way. </p> <p>But you might start to realise, for example, that when your shou