Title: 5 Ways to Manage Your Emotions - Christian Counseling
Headings: 5 Ways to Manage Your Emotions
5 Ways to Manage Your Emotions
This is what it’s like when we don’t manage our emotions. Gripped with fear, waiting for it to pass then surveying the damage done.
What are emotions?
Emotions Affect Our Body
Purpose of Emotions
I can’t control how I feel…
“For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-control.” ~ 2nd Timothy 1:7
What drives the strong emotions?
“Above all else guard your heart, everything you do flows from it.” ~Proverbs 4:23
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” ~Matthew 6:2
So what does this have to do with managing emotions?
5 Steps to Managing Your Emotions
“You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.” ~Ephesians 4:22-24
1.Put off a wrong view of emotions.
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind,” ~Jeremiah 17:9-10A
2.Put on a right view of emotions.
3.Going deeper with journaling.
“The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out.” ~Proverbs 20:5
4.You are equipped with everything you need for a Godly life.
“His divine power has given us everything we need for a Godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.” ~2 Peter 1:3
Prayer
“This is the confidence we have in approaching God that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us – whatever we ask – we know that we have what we asked of him.” ~1 John 5:14-15
Bible study
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is- His good, pleasing and perfect will.” ~Romans 12:2
5.Let go of “now” thinking.
“My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry…” ~James 1:19
Managing Your Emotions: Wrap-up
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Content: This is what it’s like when we don’t manage our emotions. Gripped with fear, waiting for it to pass then surveying the damage done. Has this happened to you? Emotions may seem unmanageable, but they’re not. We have a choice. We can choose to manage emotions rather than manage the damage done by loss of control. What are emotions? Emotions are feelings that are the byproduct of our thoughts and our actions. It is through our emotions that we express our thoughts, desires, opinions, beliefs and attitudes. In other words, emotions demonstrate our interpretation of life.