How Emotions Affect Our Lives

Have you ever been so mad you couldn’t see straight? Or so worried you couldn’t sleep at night? 

When we let our emotions run away from us, we are letting them control us. Sadly, this is never a good situation. It’s in moments like these where we’re apt to make poor decisions. We wind up unable to think straight or to take real joy in life. Worse, even our physical health begins to suffer from the stress of being at the mercy of our emotions. Thankfully, there are tools to overcome this.

The key is to become more emotionally aware. Then once you have a keener understanding of what you’re feeling, you can use the tips in our Emotional Intelligence Discovery Deep Dive to help control your emotions before they control you.