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PSYCHOLOGICAL
PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUE No. 1910
PERSPECTIVES
PERSPECTIVES JAVANAN
ISSUE No. 1856
JAVANAN
Dr. Alan A. CONTROLLING THE EMOTIONS PEACEFULLY
Modarressi
Clinical and
Neuro-Psychologyst Gaining Strength from Calming your Emotions

Part 1

Last week, I explored the meta to control it before it gets out of formative impact on both your tions, enabling us to reframe our
research on new studies based on hand, you can eventually hit ac- cognition and your mood. Getting thoughts and make more positive
Eastern philosophy in China and cess a goldmine within you. Ex- your heart rate up a bit, even with decisions to harness anxiety’s pow-
other parts of the world that indi- perts say the most powerful tool a short walk around the block, or ers.
cates that fighting the anxiety can
make it worse. Embracing your
emotion, rather than fighting it,
can help you to harness the power
of your emotions, build up resil-
ience, and become more produc-
tive.
This strategy can help unlock su-
perpowers within you. High anxi-
ety state contains strong emotional
and psychological energy that you
can use productively instead of let-
ting it consume you. Deep breath-
ing exercises with this philosophy
in mind using your brain to un-
cover the cause of your anxiety and
to learn from it, can enable you to
manage he threat that is causing it
and channel it into something that
works for you.
Rather than letting anxiety con-
sume you, it is better to identify and
manage the threat that’s causing it,
and channel it into something that
works for you. to achieve this is deep breathing. climbing stairs, can have an imme- According to some research
The first step towards learning When you take deep breaths, it diate effect on your anxiety levels. Channeling anxiety positively
how to channel anxiety is to un- activates the parasympathetic ner- It stimulates the release of sero- can unlock three superpowers.
derstand what causes it. Anxiety vous system [part of the nervous tonin, dopamine and noradrena- Productivity- getting more done;
is a stress response evolved to alert system responsible for the body’s line in your brain, neurotransmit- Flow-effortless state of mind; and
us to a perceived external threat. rest and digestion]. It slows down ters which help regulate our mood emotional resilience.
Research shows that our brains your heart rate and helps you feel and decrease anxiety, stress and The next time you feel anxious,
are wired to detect danger, to de- calmer immediately. Inhaling to depression. don’t fight the feeling, embrace it.
fend us and to avoid pain, which a count of four, holding for four Ask yourself “What is my anxiety
is why, when we feel anxious, our and exhaling for four is one way to Our brain cells have the incred- trying to show me? What can I
heart rate increases, our breathing calm yourself down. You can take ible capacity to change in response learn from it? How can I apply the
becomes faster and blood flows to deep breaths anywhere and any- to our behavior, a phenomenon wisdom of what those emotions are
our muscles. time, even in the middle of a con- known as neuroplasticity. Once telling me?” And turn it into your
If your anxiety reaches a point versation. our anxiety levels are under con- superpower. Use your brain and
that is disabling you, you may need You also need to exercise daily. trol, we can apply neuroplasticity exercise daily.
professional help. But if you learn Moving your body has a trans- principles to regulate our emo-

DANESH FOROUGHI, PH.D. Alan Modarressi, PhD, QME
Licensed Clinical Psychologist, PSY13680 Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Licensed Marriage, Family & Child Psychotherapist, MFC23455 Qualified Medical Evaluator
Certified National Board of Addiction Examiners #4974 Certified Psychophsychologist
Tel: (310) 940-3642 Diplomat, American Academy of Pain Management

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