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title: "8 Ways to Gain Control of Your Emotions"  
description: "For managing emotions and tapping into your body and brain’s capacity for shifting negative emotions into a more positive or calm mood here's 8 ways"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-11-29  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1699/8-ways-to-gain-control-of-your-emotions  
category: "mental health"  
tags: ["Mental health", "emotions", "Human emotions", "emotional intelligence", "control emotions"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# 8 Ways to Gain Control of Your Emotions

![8 Ways to Gain Control of Your Emotions](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d56415b4-70c4-431c-9840-a6451e068aa6/images/45ff15b0-e432-430a-8d00-48b99aec893b.jpeg) ![8 Ways to Gain Control of Your Emotions](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d56415b4-70c4-431c-9840-a6451e068aa6/images/7c9cf7cd-a034-478f-81ea-a02d5e2f162c.jpeg) Smile to make yourself feel good. Find a mirror, make it fun. If it doesn’t feel right to start with, you will soon be laughing at yourself ![8 Ways to Gain Control of Your Emotions](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d56415b4-70c4-431c-9840-a6451e068aa6/images/0259154b-0839-4063-bc55-e9bb7af0977c.jpeg) Smile to make others feel good. Create that connection, open communication, trigger those mirror brain cells that make us experience empathy for other ![8 Ways to Gain Control of Your Emotions](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d56415b4-70c4-431c-9840-a6451e068aa6/images/f34bf64d-bb71-4635-a8ab-7ad26fb69a46.jpeg) Get up and move. Jump around. It is important to move our lymph nodes to get toxins out of our body ![8 Ways to Gain Control of Your Emotions](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d56415b4-70c4-431c-9840-a6451e068aa6/images/a82deb47-d87d-4fe5-96ba-d419b58d59a6.jpeg) Check in with your body. Do a body scan. Take note of where you are holding tension and your overall physiology. ![8 Ways to Gain Control of Your Emotions](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d56415b4-70c4-431c-9840-a6451e068aa6/images/c5190771-ee56-495f-932e-745dd691f726.jpeg) Physically remove the tension. If you feel tense in the arms, shake your arms; if you feel tight in your chest, stretch, and expand or breathe deeply. ![8 Ways to Gain Control of Your Emotions](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d56415b4-70c4-431c-9840-a6451e068aa6/images/812e470c-82ca-4e58-ace2-7f725f045d35.jpeg) Breathe. Take 6 deep diaphragmatic breaths. Our body cannot sustain anger through deep breathing. ![8 Ways to Gain Control of Your Emotions](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d56415b4-70c4-431c-9840-a6451e068aa6/images/fae1f393-a583-452d-bdfd-a1eac0996819.jpeg) Talk to someone. Express your feelings to begin to resolve the situation. ![8 Ways to Gain Control of Your Emotions](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d56415b4-70c4-431c-9840-a6451e068aa6/images/279cba18-740d-47f9-bdc6-646e716a250f.jpeg) Disengage and re-engage emotions. Park a challenging emotion to deal with later, rather than just avoiding it.

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