Regulate Your Emotions By Using This Simple Technique

Our emotions affect us and other people around us. This can be anxiety, depression, stress, or whatever it is that's going on for us. We try to look for a reset but that won’t really solve the problem or solve what's actually happening. 

It will, however, help us to navigate through our emotions to make better decisions and to allow the people around us to feel more at ease because, as we know, behavior breeds behavior. How we behave can affect how other people behave. 

For instance, if you go to work really stressed out, everyone's going to feel that around you and so they're going to want to step away from you instead of wanting to come to you. Whereas if you go in all positive and happy, all of a sudden, you’re inspiring them and they want to come closer to you. It also builds that respect and good relationship, making it all part of being a great leader.

Now let me introduce to you this method that will help you to reset the emotions that you're going through. It’s called diaphragmatic breathing.

Normally, we breathe from our shoulders and we breathe quite shallow. Whereas with diaphragmatic breathing, we breathe from our stomach. To do this, put one hand on your chest and one hand on your stomach. You only need to do this at the beginning up until you start getting used to how this feels. The aim of this is to take four slow breaths in, so you should feel your stomach rising higher than your chest. 

Breathe in for four seconds and then slowly breathe out for two seconds. Remember, your belly has to breathe in and expand. We're looking for stomach expansion and not chest expansion. Just keep repeating this, breathing in for four, breathing out for two, breathing in for four and breathing out for two. 

Once you get used to diaphragmatic breathing, you don't need to put your hands on your chest. You can do this at your desk or wherever and whenever you need to. And you'll start realising that it just slows everything down. It starts reducing the stress and anxiety and all those other symptoms. To be clear, we're addressing symptoms and not causes. 

It will start bringing everything down. And when you start feeling your symptoms reducing, you can actually keep doing it until you feel comfortable that you can come out of that anxiety. And then once you come out, it's asking yourself these questions.

What can I take responsibility for right now to make a positive impact on my life and others around me? 

What's that next positive move that I can do that is going to make my life and the lives around me easier?

What is the next step that I can take to move towards the goal or the thing that I want?

And that's how you can start taking ownership and responsibility. 

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