Control Your Emotions

So what are emotions? We’ve discovered that they are part biological and part based on evaluating the world around us. But they are far more than that, as any romantic comedy will show you. Perhaps the best and most helpful way to conceive of emotions is this: they depend on your unique brain chemistry, your circumstances and status quo, your expectations, and your entire life of ex

As if this wasn’t evidence enough, another study in the United States by experts at the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Rochester showed that those who fail to say or express how they feel increased their risk of premature death from all causes by about 35

Negative emotions are more noticeable to us because attending to negative events is often more important to our survival than dealing with positive events. The worst outcome when you delay a reaction to a positive event—for example, a birthday, a promotion, or a wedding—is that you celebrate a little later than you normally would have. However, with a negative event, there are much worse things that can happen if our reactions are delayed. It seems quite appropriate that we focus on dealing with negative things first

This theory states that emotions are judgments about the extent that a current situation meets your expectations and goals, no matter how you define them. Happiness is felt because it is an evaluation that your expectations

These self-destructive habits may include the following:

then the physical reactions, and then the psychological reaction—the emotion—that comes after.

First you have the stimuli

According to her, emotions are a result of changes in the brain, where neurochemicals such as dopamine, noradrenaline, and serotonin increase or lower the brain’s activity level according to what is more beneficial in the circumstances.

Psychologist Linda Davidoff

Emotions, in the most general definition, are a neural impulse that moves you to act. They are something the brain commands to achieve a better existence, one that has evolved over time to help us survive and meet certain needs