Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement 3008: How to Feel Better When You Have No Control Over the Situation by Erica Layne on Emotional Management
Dec 16, 2023
Erica Layne, an expert in managing emotions and shifting thoughts, discusses the importance of regaining power and feeling better in situations beyond our control. She shares a personal story about dealing with her son's challenges and emphasizes the power of shifting our thoughts. Erica Layne's article explores managing emotions when facing situations beyond our control and how to shift our thoughts to regain power and feel better.
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Erica's Anger Over Son's Statistic
- Erica Layne shares a personal story about being angry when an adult told her son a discouraging statistic about kids with late birthdays.
- She realized she couldn't undo what her son heard and had to find a way to feel better despite no control over the situation.
Thoughts Create Emotional Power
- We don't feel emotions directly from events, but from our thoughts about those events.
- Realizing this puts emotional power back in our hands even when situations are uncontrollable.
Two Ways to Feel Better
- There are two ways to feel better: change your circumstances or change your thoughts about them.
- When you cannot change the circumstance, shift your thinking to better feeling thoughts to gain relief.