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naughtychimp is a Travelling Money Managing Extrovert

I'm working on my tendency to get "emotionally hijacked" (read all 2 entries…)

Okay, as mentioned in the past, I am a girl with strong, passionate feelings. Nothing wrong with that.

But, too often, I feel “Hijacked” by my emotions. For example, rather than getting scared and just allowing myself to “feel the fear but do it anyway”, I will get paralyzed and not be able to function. Or, when I get upset by someone I won’t be able to react in a rational manner so I’ll bury and bury and bury and then one day explode about a relatively minor matter.

I have an IQ of 162; I’d like to have a more comfortable balance between my rational and emotional self. So, I want to really try to set myself some goals and continue to work – hard! – on getting over this issue. It’s good to have feelings and to use them to help guide our lives. It’s bad to let feelings determine how we live and act to the point where it hurts us.

If any of you have any ideas on exercises I can do to help with this, feel free to leave them in my comments section…

Jan 08, 2008, 11:28AM PST | 15 cheers

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0amnesia is down with flu but still tryin to study :)

I had it a bit tough too.. when it came to controlling my feelings… I’m pretty sensitive person, and used to find it really hard to accept that people can do things to hurt me willfully.

Then I was introduced to something called “landmark” by a cousin of mine. He didn’t exactly elaborate on what happens in the course they offer. But he insisted that it was just what I needed. Trusting his judgement, I joined their basic -landmark forum course.

Its been a long time since I did that. Looking back at the person I was when I joined it, at at myself now- Its hard to imagine that I’m the same person.

I strongly recommend it to u… give it a try.

hope this helps … :)

cheers !!

Nov 22, 2008, 09:32PM PST | Respond to this 2 cheers

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