Your emotions are not your friend. Ķ They are not your sacred inner voice telling you what to do. They were necessary during stone sge for survival. Not in today’s world. If you don’t learn to regulate our emotions they can hurt your career and your relationships, including your marriage.
To regulate emotions, focus on self-awareness by noticing and naming your feelings and identifying triggers. Use healthy coping strategies like deep breathing, mindfulness, or taking a walk to calm down and regain control. You can also practice cognitive reappraisal, which involves rethinking challenging situations to change their emotional impact.
Toxic people aren’t complicated people. They are predictable .
A toxic person is someone who brings conflict and negativity to your life. They’re often controlling, manipulative, and even abusive. Protect yourself by setting and maintaining boundaries and focusing your energy on relationships that are supportive.
Toxic people manipulate, they poke at you until you react. Then they feed on your reaction. They twist your words. They guilt you. You don’t want to do that. It’s not getting you anywhere.
You only need one moment to stop them. You don’t need to send a long text explaining things. They won’t get it. They see the world through a very dirty glass and every thing you present them they see the distorted picture based on their view. So don’t waste your time. Chuck Swindol says “you can’t teach a dog to fly like an eagle.”
I think it’s Dr Frankl who called the space between a stimuli and a response sacred. It is where we can grow that sacred space bigger. The more you grow that space, the more you realize that quiet silence is truly golden. It also help grow your prefrontal cortex so you can learn to renew your mind.
Remember this: James 1:19 Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry”. Proverbs He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city”. Proverbs 16:32