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"Mastering your emotions" if you mean, controlling your emotions, is not balanced or healthy. Mastering your emotions means listening to them as a critical feed
by jlos 5y ago
"Mastering your emotions" if you mean, controlling your emotions, is not balanced or healthy. Mastering your emotions means listening to them as a critical feedback to your environment and then rationally controlling your response.
Rational thought is complimentary to emotional thought. Rational thought is slow, reflexive, and highly focused. Emotional thought is affective; it is your mind telling you how something is affecting you.
E.g. Anger tells you some boundary has been violated. It's the rational part that allows you to analyze that feeling and respond appropriately (telling someone to back off or getting a snack because your blood sugars are low)
- mensetmanusman 5y agoAnger usually tells me that my expectations are too high, or that my patience is wearing thin, and that I should improve it. This practice of self-reflection after anger over the decades has turned into a life where I am very rarely angry, and life is incredibly enjoyable.
- jmcqk6 5y agoYou're making assumptions about what "mastering your emotions" mean. Imagine a river. Controlling the river in the way you suggest is like throwing obstacles in the river trying to dam it. But instead, imagine trying to redirect the river instead. You don't fight the flow, you just move it.