In An Emotional Battle You Choose The Emotion That Wins
The emotional battle is a fight that is fought within ourselves. In any situation or circumstance of our life, we can empower and focus on feeling anger, envy, jealousy, sadness, arrogance, or develop joy, peace, love, hope, humility and generosity on the contrary.
Emotions are experienced in a very personal way manifesting in facial expression, body posture and specific mental states. The choice to focus on some emotions or others will mark our way of seeing life. Depending on that way of seeing life, we will think and behave in a proactive way or in a conflictive way.
Experiencing some emotions more frequently or others influences our mood, our motivation and even our character and behavior. Choosing to take things that happen to us in a positive way is related to physiological reactions associated with the production of hormones such as norepinephrine and serotonin.
Brain and emotions
Experts in emotions, such as Klaus Scherer, from the University of Geneva, or the late Richard Lazarus, proposed that an important factor that can modulate emotions is the thought about what happens to us. Mental abilities and processes such as attention, memory, reasoning and decision-making allow us to interpret events in a conscious way, being able to decide how to react to them.
Depending on our cognitive level and our capacity for emotional modulation, we will be able to choose more appropriately which emotions correspond to the situations we experience. Emotional modulation consists of a series of cognitive strategies that help us control our emotions.
The most interesting thing in this field is that experts in emotions and brain have found evidence that we can teach our brain to modulate emotions. The key could be precisely in the brain’s ability to change, in neuroplasticity. In fact, it has been proven that the plasticity of our brain is much higher than what researchers initially thought.
Both the environment and our behavior can cause a reorganization of certain brain functions. Most people can learn to transform their emotions through certain therapeutic techniques and practices. This means that we are capable of making changes at a much greater depth than we predicted a few years ago.
You choose what to feel
We are made of lights, and of shadows. In each of us there is a battle that we will win or not depending on what we decide to feed. We all have a life full of lights and shadows, of ups and downs, of brightness and darkness. But, all of that is us. What we accept and what we deny, what we show and what we keep silent.
Only from acceptance can we begin our path of development, learning to love ourselves and changing shadows for light. Only from the light can we shine in the dark, enlighten others, and transform the emotions of fear, anger, envy and arrogance into emotions of love, hope, humility, joy and generosity that will accompany us in the transformation process.
Managing our emotions in most of the situations that life proposes, building and making positive emotions our own, is essential to establish modulation strategies and emotional self-knowledge that allow us to project a positive image of life and of ourselves.
