Steem4nigeria Accelerator Contest Week 35: Dealing with Emotions

Greetings beloved steemians. It's another beautiful topic of discuss and I'll like to leave my thoughts on the topic. I'll like to appreciate the Steem4nigeria community for the contest.

Before I pen my thoughts, I'll like to invite
@sahmie @aspiya @soyariadnna to leave their thoughts on this contest.

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What is your understanding of emotions?

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Emotions to my understanding is a state of feeling which could be a conscious or unconscious mental reaction to happening, circumstances or environment. Emotions are responsible for the reactions we give in every situation. Our thoughts, experiences, people around us are some factors that influence our emotions. Emotions often has a wide range of variance, from happiness, excitement to sadness and then anger.

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Have you ever had emotions that made you lose yourself? Tell us about it.

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Well, emotions are roller coasters sometimes you'd feel high and unstoppable and other times you'd feel low and insignificant.
Last week I had an issue that I flared up, I am part of a group of school alumni for a campus fellowship, so I was to keep contribution money for a wedding on Saturday last week. On Friday, sometime past five pm I got a call from the group coordinator, I wasn't in a good space to take the call so I busied the call immediately it came in thrice. I finished what I was doing and saw over 20+ missed calls and a message asking why I decided to busy the call and not pick.

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I flared up and started wondering if I stole money to receive that number of call with no SOS. I lost my cool and gave the coordinator a piece of my mind, had other actions that led to me being removed from the group temporarily.

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Explain 5 ways to deal with emotions.

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Emotions are like a blanket that covers reasoning, to deal with emotions we must

Identify the emotion
Most people don't know what they feel, and can't tell when their moods flip, hence identifying what we are feeling is the first step to dealing with any emotions.

Accept and acknowledge
When we get to identify what we feel we have to accept that we feel the way we feel because we are humans. It's okay to feel happy, hurt, we feel these things because we're alive. Acceptance brings about knowing how to handle the feelings.

Identify the cause of the emotion
Identifying the cause of the emotion helps us to deal with the emotion and avoid further issues.

Work out the situation at hand
When the cause of the emotion is noted we should try to sort out the situation to ensure that it doesn't stir more emotions as well as learning to compose ourselves rather than associate our emotions all the time to others.

Have a bit of me time to recover and have people around
Nothing is as good as self care. Self care helps you recover and appreciate yourself more. When you have time to reflect on how your emotions affect you, you'll be in a better position to handle your emotions. Also having people around who you could talk to at times help us as they offer a good support base and help with our emotions.

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Do you think emotions could hinder someone from achieving their dreams?

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Well in as much as emotions are strong feelings I feel that it can and cannot hinder one from achieving your dreams it all depends on the individual. It can hinder the very emotional people who have not learnt to handle their emotions, so at the slightest feeling of failure or hurt, they quit. While those who have learnt over time to keep going, and with a good support system would succeed.

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Conclusion

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Emotions are valid feelings hence it's nice if we get acquainted with it and get the know how to deal with it. Emotions are vital in how we see the world and interact with it thus, it is important to know how to express our emotions in a healthy way as our emotions also have an effect on others.

Thank you for finding time to go through my entry. Wishing you all the best.