Steem4nigeria Accelerator Contest Week 35: Dealing with Emotions

Good morning my beloved steemians across the globe, I believe you all had a peaceful night rest, mine was good. I will love to also share my view on this wonderful contest on the topic:Dealing with Emotions. My thanks goes to @steem4nigeria for hosting an amazing topic like this.

Emotions simply means having strong feelings which may include anger or love, sorrow and depression, and also sadness and happiness. In every moment of our lives we humans generate feelings, and this particular feelings is said to be emotions. That's why it's pertinent for us to always take caution and take control of our emotions when ever we are reacting to a situation around or within us.

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Emotions are always complicated because of the deverse encounter on how we are behaving, and our physiological reactions. Emotions are also that feeling attached to us, especially when you are having that feeling or fear of not wanting to fail, that's exactly how emotions work.

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Humanly speaking, I think everyone has encounter a lot of situations that made us lose out of our emotions at that very moment.

Something terrible happened to me last year February, there's a program I wanted to do that requires me having a laptop and my elder sister had promised getting me a new one as my birthday gift. I traveled to the state she is and spend 2 weeks there, helping her out with her shop and also helping her with her children, so a day to when I will be coming back to my base, I and my sis went to a laptop shop and I made a choice of the laptop I wanted, the price was high but my sister bargain with the vendor and they agreed on N350, 000 naira, she transfer the money to them and we left.

I was so happy, all through the night of that day I couldn't sleep, because of the excitement of owning a brand new laptop and I was busy pressing it all through the night. That morning I arranged my stuff as I was traveling back home to my base, I put the laptop in a separate bag and guard it with all amount of carefulness till I get to motor park. I was already seated on my seat with my laptop at hand, but the driver warned that all bags and luggages will be put in the butt of the car.

I told the driver to be mindful of that my bag because there's laptop inside so that something will not press it, I didn't know there's a thief inside the vehicle with and even listening to my conversation with the driver.

So as we start the journey, almost close to the bus terminal, a young man wanted to highlight from the vehicle so the driver went and open the butt for him to remove his bag, my dear brothers and sisters, this young man majestically carry my laptop with the bag and left and the driver didn't even noticed if he carried someone bag or not.

When we arrived the bus terminal and the driver offloaded people's bag and luggages from the butt and I didn't see my laptop bag, I nearly run mad in that park, I cried all the cries in this world and I didn't get any consolation, I lose it and couldn't relate well with people around me well because my emotions has taken whole of me.

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There are many ways to deal with emotions but I will list out the 5 asked.

✓ Acknowledge and accept your feelings without judging or denying it, also recognized your sentiment and allowed yourself to encounter them completely.

✓ Express yourself by communicating it with a close friend or relative, in doing this you can have clearness and point of view.

✓ Be mindful of yourself, care procedure can help you with noticing your feelings without becoming empowered by them. Also take part in care rehears like reflection and profound breathing.

✓ Take care of yourself by engaging in activities that will nurture your emotional well-being, it could be listening to good music, or doing exercise. This goes along way in helping one to manage intense emotion.

✓ If you feel you can no longer manage your emotions on your own, please seek the help of a counselor, professional hands can help you provide the guidance to manage your emotions.

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Emotions are dangerous when it's not properly controlled or tame, it can damage your personality. Yes I agree that emotions can hinder someone from achieving your dreams because it can make you react negatively to something or situations by taking a drastic action which you might regret later. So it's advisable to have a second thought before we take a decision that will affect our life, if not we will leave in regret and have unfulfilled dreams.

As humans, since we can't do without emotions, then we have to learn how to be in full control of it, if you're unable to control your emotions, it can hinder you from achieving your big dreams.

I invite my friends @moyeon, @unyime23 and @eveetim to take part in it.