#411: What Negative Emotions Are You Letting Into Your Life? And How You Can Replace Them.

Introduction

In today's "People Skills" newsletter, we're showcasing another one of our Professional Development Programme (PDP) presentations. And the topic today is "Managing Emotions".

We often hurt ourselves far more emotionally than we do physically or mentally. Bodies can heal; thoughts can change; but emotions rooted in the damaged past or the feared future can harm us for a long time. To manage damaging emotions, we need to employ the power of reason and a range of emotion-healing techniques.

In this topic, we’ll show you 7 of the most destructive emotions and how you can deal with them...

01. Your Emotions Can Kill You

One of the most powerful stories about how our emotions can stress us is the food worker who became locked in a walk-in freezer late one night. Desperate to escape from the cold, he tried to raise the alarm but everyone else had gone home...

02. How Simple Things Can Trigger Office Rage

Small office irritations can cause more resentment than some of the major issues. Recruitment consultancy Office Angels surveyed 1000 offices to find out what caused the greatest levels of disharmony...

03. Anxiety

The word "anxiety" comes from an old word meaning "to choke". Anxiety can choke the life out of us and lead to fear and panic...

04. What Do You Worry About?

Anxiety can show itself in a number of ways, some of which we may not be aware of. Knowing where our anxieties come from can help us to deal with them...

05. Managing Anxiety

The key to managing anxiety is Acceptance. With acceptance comes resignation and a loss of worry...

06. Anger

Anger is one of the emotions that can literally kill us. It is one of the seven deadly sins; it fuels aggression and violence. The key to managing anger is Ownership...

07. How Most of Us Hide Our Feelings at Work

Research varies on whether it is more healthy to express your anger or to suppress it. According to researchers at Iowa State University, letting your anger out can lead to high blood pressure. On the other hand, research also suggests that keeping your anger in can lead to stress...

08. 3 Steps to Managing Your Anger

The key to managing anger is Ownership. There are three steps to owning your anger...

09. Resentment

Resentment of others is a stressful emotion because it locks us into the past and condemns us to re-live a time of pain. Often our hatred continues when those who are the object of our hate have moved on...

10. The Dividing Wall

The story is told of two brothers who inherited a grocery store.

One day, one of the brothers left a dollar bill on the counter top but when he returned found it gone. With nobody else in the shop, he accused his brother of taking it...

11. Cure Resentment Like Kevin in "Home Alone"

We often pursue resentments by breaking off contact with others as a punishment, a threat or a way to force others to respond to us first. Sadly, they rarely do...

12. Inadequacy

It is thought that most people suffer feelings of inadequacy at some time or another. This is made worse by a world which promotes images of other people who appear to be more successful than we are...

13. How George Bailey Learns That It's a Wonderful Life

The Frank Capra film "It's a Wonderful Life" tells the story of George Bailey played by James Stewart. As a young man, George has big dreams but he is unable to realise them when his father dies and he is forced to stay in his home town to run the family business...

14. Guilt and Shame

Guilt and shame arise when we compare ourselves with an idealised belief of how we should behave. We fret over mistakes; we panic when we don't do what we should do; we feel miserable when we come in way down the track...

15. Managing Guilt and Shame

There are two keys to managing guilt and shame; one is Confession and the other is Letting Go of the past...

16. Letting Go of Emotions

In our age of stress, most of us live by unrealistic expectations about what we should achieve, how we should act, and how others should treat us. As a result, we are consumed by guilt and fear...

17. Facing Your Fears

In his book "The Executive Mystic: Psychic Power Tools for Success“, Barrie Dolnick recommends the following 2-step technique for overcoming your fears...

What Next?

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Thanks for reading this edition of the "People Skills" newsletter and good luck with your ongoing learning.

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In the spirit of making the world a freer, happier and more enlightened place...

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