UNDERSTANDING THE UNDERLYING BELIEFS BEHIND YOUR ACTIONS WILL GIVE YOU OVER TO MASTERING YOUR EMOTIONS.

Completely giving yourself over to an excited, happy mood may leave you prone to committing regretful, impulsive acts, like foolish spending.

To seek the source of your feelings is to grow your self-awareness.

Emotions are meant to prod you into self-inquiry and self-understanding.

Paying attention to your emotions and asking yourself good questions are essential to improving your personal effectiveness. Satisfactory questions to ask yourself are: can I recollect the first time I reacted in a particular way and with whom? What is the relationship between the past and the present? And is the emotion and reaction sparked off by specific people or situation?

Understanding the underlying beliefs behind your actions will give you over to mastering your emotions.

When you lose sight of your core values and beliefs, you will get yourself up to do and say things that you will regret.

Listing your core values and beliefs and matching your current actions against them will enable you to detect any discrepancy in your behaviour that needs correction. Repeating this exercise frequently sharpens your self-awareness.

Being conscious of your mood brings to you a deliberateness of thought that gets you through into mastering your mood.