YOUR AWARENESS OF AN EMOTION GEARS YOU UP TO GET OFF UNPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOUR THAT LIMITS YOU AND FRUSTRATES OTHERS.

You give yourself up to self-management when you use your awareness of your emotions to proactively choose your words and actions.

Self-management involves picking up on your habitual thoughts and their attendant emotions, and then choosing your response to them in order to enhance effectiveness in your life and relationships.

Your awareness of an emotion gears you up to respond proactively to the emotion.

The aim of self-management is to get you off unproductive behaviour that limits you and frustrates others.

When you use your understanding of your emotions to choose a productive response to your emotions, you empower yourself to take control of challenging situations, get on with change very well, take initiatives leading to your goals, get with flexibility that allows you to choose positively and productively to different situations, and banish victimhood

Take to responding effectively to your emotions, so that you can hold the reigns of your life instead of being buffeted here and there, by undercurrents of unresolved emotions.

Through shallow breaths, your brain is deprived of oxygen, and the aftermath is poor concentration, mood swings, forgetfulness, restlessness, and lack of energy.

Taking slow deep breaths and exhaling gently and completely through the mouth puts you into a calm, relaxed state where you have a clear head and a presence of mind to spot your emotions and respond proactively to them.