Friday, June 27, 2008

How to deal with your problem and emotion?

A short self reflection of life.

Is emotion one of the most powerful influences in a man's behavior? Indeed. This could be positive or negative to every individual, it all depend on the person. It's either we control our emotion or our emotion will control us. It's our choice.

People felt bad when things don't happen the way they want it to happen. Our anger slowly accumulates inside when things become out of hand, most especially in times where we could no longer handle the situation according to our plan. Fear begins to spread inside us, and that cause us to get angry with subjects/things that don't concerned our focus. The more our fear increase, the more we can't think objectively. Our emotion begins to overtake our logic. We are trapped in the box - being trapped is the main reason why people can't think creatively, and this is the time where our emotion slowly finds its way inside us. Our emotion is now controlling us, instead of us controlling our emotion. "I can't do that, I'm just not intelligent, I'm too weak for that, you don't understand and you'll never will, nobody cares about me"...statements like these stop the people from thinking, it stop us from accumulating courage or even find ways to go on to achieve our goal despite the obstacles. Statements like these or self pity help our emotion to turn our strength into weakness.

The more we focus on the problem, the heavier it will become. The heavier it become, the more we focus on the problem. It will not only affect our judgment but would also increase the probability of getting out of hand. It is because our behavior is affected, and when our behavior is affected, there's a strong tendency that other people around us will also become affected…and that produce another form of problem.

It is the reason why we easily become angry to other people who are not helpful to us even though we knew all along that they've got nothing to do with our problem. If we focus on the problem we become self centered, we expect people to understand our behavior even if they don't know what's happening within us. And when things become worst that it's so heavy to carry, we create this feeling inside us that we have all the reason to get angry with people around us...and sometimes with the very people we loved most. This is simply because we focus on the problem instead of solution. It's a question of our attitude towards a problem. It is a question of how we handle things in the worst and complicated situation.

Everything is a question of what you focus on in life. The more you focus on solution, the lighter the problem will become. The lighter it become, the easier for us to solve it. We become what we focus on as they said. Though it maybe easier said than done, however, if we will only practice and condition ourselves in a truly positive aspect of life, you will find out that everything in life were made not to add burden to your emotion, but to help you find the gift of overcoming the impossible situation and turn this experienced into skill of how to handle life easily. This is the way to live our life smart, to live our life like everything is easy. Start by controlling your emotion, instead of your emotion controlling you. Do this and I promise you, your life will never be the same again.

Stop complaining. Find a way to solve your problem. If we can't find a solution to a certain problem, maybe accepting it as it is - is the only solution. Accept the things as it is and move on. Stop becoming so hard on your self. You will only live once in this world - living your life to the fullest instead of living in the box is one of the smartest thing to do.

JOJO GERONIMO
Life Strategist

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