This document provides tips for dealing with bad emotions. It explains that emotions are chemical reactions in the brain that evolved to warn and protect us, but prolonged negative emotions can be toxic. Bad emotions are influenced by physiology, behavior, and feelings. The document recommends five steps to change negative emotions: 1) be aware of your body's posture, 2) recall a happy memory, 3) adopt a powerful stance, 4) remember you control your life, and 5) don't take things personally. Controlling bad emotions involves focusing on positive activities, writing down feelings, and gaining perspective on problems, which are temporary parts of life's ups and downs.

1. How to deal with bad emotions
Tips and techniques
Linda Mata

2. What are bad emotions?
Emotions are chemical reaction in our
mammalian brain , developed in amygdala. We
have categorize them in good and bad according
the way they make us feel.
Bad emotions have a reason in evolution. They
exist to warm us, to alert us and to protect us.
However, if we are having them for a long period
of time it is called mood and it reduces us toxicity
and behavioral change.

3. What affect emotions?
Physiolo
gy
Behavior
Feelings
Emotions
Emotion are affected from
the way we behave, how our
body is standing, how we feel
at the moment, if we are
hurt or hungry or tired
Those parametres creates
what we call emotions.

4. How can we change the negative
emotions?
Emotions are affected by behavior, feelings and psyspiology, but also
those elements can affect emotions. For example, try to jump up
and down and feel sad, try to stay in an embryo position and feel
excited. It's literaly impossible. We can change our emotions and we
can transform them to positive, with practice.
Being happy is actually a choice.

5. Five simple steps to emotional change.
1. When you are dealing with a negative emotion, be aware of your
physiology, how your body stands.
2. Close your eyes and recall a moment that you were really happy,
remember that emotion and how you felt.
3. Transform your body pose. Adopt a powerful position and stay
there for at least 10'.
4. Remeber that this is your life and you and ONLY you have the
control of it.
5. Remember not to take anything personally. Whatever others do
to you, is their problem not yours.

6. Control and Direct
What you put your focus on , that you will get. Dealing with
negative emotions is a real challenge, however you can
always have the control of your own life. Writing down the
way you feel and reading it at loud, will make you realize
that things are not so bad. Zoom out of the situation and
see that like you are watching a movie. Control your bad
emotions by start doing something that makes you feel
really good, like working out, take a walk into a park, have
a cup of coffee with a friend you love, watch your favoriite
youtube video and so on.
Life always has up and downs, it's the way you deal those
downs and lift yourself up.

7. "Nothing is
permanent
in this cruel world
not even our
problems."
Charlie Chaplin