Strategies to Find Emotional Balance

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Emotional balance is achieved through identifying, feeling and processing our emotional reactions in appropriate and healthy ways.
If you are struggling to accept and adjust to an emotional challenge, here are some strategies to re-shape your reactions and find relief.

2. Describe your current reaction to your challenge. How do you truly feel at this moment? Don't hold back. Are you angry, fearful, regretful, anxious, overwhelmed, defeated, resentful, or agitated? Get in touch with your true feelings. Acknowledge them; they belong to you and they are real.

3. Create a rating system (numbers, stars, plus signs, exclamation marks, etc.) and evaluate the intensity of your reaction. This is a form of validation and a way to judge where you are along the path of emotional healing.

4. Envision your desired emotional reaction. What's your concept of a healthy and appropriate response? How do you want to handle this situation? What kind of genuine reaction would make you feel like you handled yourself with dignity, fairness and grace?

5. Think about actions you can take to move closer to your desired reaction. For example, you may think you owe someone an apology, even though you might not be ready to make it at this time.

Look at what role you played in creating the current situation. Do you need to change your attitude or perspective? Make the situation less personal or important? Or do you need to simply do nothing until a desirable course of action becomes clearer?

You may need to repeat these steps a number of times before you experience a calmer, more serene response. Keeping a journal may help you gain insight and see progress. Hopefully, with repetition and persistence you will streamline your path towards peace and emotional balance.

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