Emotional Process

I have been trying to work on my emotions, because I have always been such an emotional person. 

I have found that the way we process our emotions is a little whack.  We are entirely too reactive to them.  We feel an emotion and we immediately act upon it. 

Now contrary to what we have been told emotions are good things.  It is our subconsious sending a message to our consiousness about how our true self feels about something. 

What we should do instead of reacting is take the time to process the emotion, and decide our response. 

The first step in this process is to feel what we are feeling. 

The next step is to find our inner compassion.  We cannot make any clear decisions on how to act without first coming from that place in our hearts. 

The third step is to be straightforward in our response.  If you aren't straightforward then you are just opening yourself up for further blows to your emotions, and a greater chance you will react instead of respond. 

And the last thing to do is to let it go.  Once you've said your peace no matter the other person's reaction/responce you must move on.  You cannot be harbored with your old decisions or you would be constantly reliving them.

If you can follow these simple steps you will go from letting your emotions rule you to having a bit more peace within yourself.