How Do You Control Your Emotions When Things Arent Going Well?

There's been a lot of work on something called emotion regulation, which is about how do you kind of change your emotions so that they're more productive for your tasks at hand? So i think there's two main strategies that we find in the research, which are, again, connected to this ability to regulate your emotions. The classic refrain is taking something that you're overwhelmed by or anxious about and then saying, "This is an opportunity to grow"