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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Controlling Your Mental Health


Stress or mood swings can strike anyone from time to time upsetting their mental balance. Too much stress, anxiety, depression, or worry can become and affects mind and emotions so that they can be overwhelming. When moods and emotions get too unbalanced; when they begin to interfere with your career or personal relationshiiwit’s time to make a change. No matter how stressful your job, close relationships, or current life situation; you can learn to control your emotions and bring your life back into balance.

Do you ever feel or wish you had more control over your mental and emotional state? We all feel emotionally off-balance to be pummeled by stress and anxiety or by depression.
It may seem like a never-ending battle, but you can relieve the emotional turmoil. You can bring your life into balance by learning more about your emotions, how to recognize them, and what you can do to manage them.
Achieving emotional balance takes practice and patience, but feeling the benefits happens quickly. Our brains have the ability to change and evolve. No matter how long you have felt out of control of your emotions, no matter how long you have felt overwhelmed; you can take steps to getting off the emotional rollercoaster.
Some people know when they have an emotional problem, while others only suspect that something in their lives is not working as it should. Think about the following common symptoms. Do you feel overwhelmed by responsibilities and stressed out much of the time? Do you feel misunderstood in your relationships? Do you have a hard time connecting with others?  Do you fight chronic depression, anxiety, worry, or negativity? Are you having trouble getting ahead in your career, despite your job talents? Have you received complaints about the way you interact with customers or co-workers? Do your people in your life complain about your mood swings, temper, irrational fears, or your emotional distance? Do you find yourself getting annoyed or upset at little things?  Do you have a hard time bouncing back from problems? Do you often say or do things, only to regret it later? Do you struggle with a negative cycle, repeating the same mistakes over and over again?
Changing mental and emotional habits takes more than just intellectual understanding; it takes a process that engages you physically and emotionally as well as intellectually.
To repair your nervous system's ability to remain in balance so that you can experience being both calm and focused throughout the day; you need to practice regularly, and can actually change your brain in ways that will make you feel more confident, resilient, and in control. The more you practice, the better you will get at managing your emotions and facing life’s challenges. In order to gain the abilities needed to overcome challenges, experience greater emotional health, build emotional intelligence, and bring your life into balance.  Stress relief and emotional awareness to be emotionally healthy.
The goal is how to regulate stress, then to learn how to recognize, monitor, and deal with your emotions. The strategy is to engage your senses in ways to having lasting change. If you want something to change for the better in your life; the more you want the change, the better your chance of getting what you want.  Your brain is continually evolving and may continue to change for the better for years to come. Learning the reasons for your emotional turmoil takes months or even years in order to control and understand why you are feeling the emotions.  Reducing stress can dramatically change your life and become a different person.  Gaining the emotional balance in your life comes from constant monitoring and controlling the outcome of the drastic actions and feelings. Building from the knowledge takes honesty and work but you can achieve a balance in your life.