Don’t let emotional monitoring control your life – learn to manage your emotions and improve your overall well-being (Image: Shutterstock)
By prioritizing your own emotions and employing constructive practices, it is possible to take control and achieve emotional balance.
Emotional monitoring, a common practice that involves constantly checking in on your own and others’ emotions, can lead to increased levels of stress and anxiety. However, there are ways to overcome this potentially harmful habit. Therapist Isra Nasser explains emotional monitoring and shares effective techniques for managing emotions in a healthy way. By prioritizing your own emotions and employing constructive practices, such as journaling and deep breathing, it is possible to take control and achieve emotional balance. Don’t let emotional monitoring control your life – learn how to manage your emotions and improve your overall well-being with these expert tips.
Take a moment to stop and reflect on your feelings, questioning whether they arise from within you or if they arise from assumptions about someone else’s emotional state.
- Establishment
Make a clear distinction between your feelings and those of others by establishing firm emotional boundaries to protect your energy and capacity for empathy. - patterns
Increase your self-awareness by considering patterns that emerge in your interactions with others, including what you expect from these interactions. This will enable you to identify the types of emotional support you can provide and engage in effective emotional caregiving. - regulation
Engage your parasympathetic nervous system to regulate your body by practicing techniques such as deep breathing, sighing, humming, meditation, yawning, stretching or journaling. - Tolerance
Develop the ability to tolerate discomfort and challenging feelings by observing the inclination to anticipate or assume others’ feelings, but resist the urge to act on them and, instead, allow yourself to experience these feelings without acting. Give
Therapist Isra also emphasized that it is not your responsibility to manage the moods of others. While it may be understandable and tempting to do so, you are not accountable for their actions and how they feel. Instead, it is important for adults to take ownership of their emotions and learn to manage and regulate them effectively.
Overcoming emotional monitoring takes deliberate effort and practice. By adopting these simple habits, we can learn to effectively manage our emotions, conserve our energy, and build more fulfilling relationships. With time and practice, you can learn to break free from the cycle of emotional monitoring and find more peace and balance in your life.
