Five Ways to Increase Emotional Balance
Five ways to increase your emotional balance. People often overlook their emotional balance. Society emphasizes physical wellbeing. It often forgets mental and physical health interaction. Without emotional balance, the chances are you suffer from stress and stress-related ailments. Your health and happiness will improve if you follow these five steps to emotional harmony.
People with emotional balance share these qualities:
- Recognize when their mood changes. They know how to bring it back to an even keel.
- Meet challenges with curiosity.
- Welcome positive changes.
- Have steady lifestyles.
- Maintain their social lives, work, and downtime.
- Practice presence and patience.
- They are content as themselves.
- Do not seek to find happiness in someone else.
- Don’t find destructive ways to handle their stress.
- Know how to effectively communicate their needs.
5 Ways to Increase Emotional Balance
Self-regulate
People who are quick to rage face mood swings. They shift from anger and defensiveness to calm contentment fast. Fast-rising and plummeting emotions signal a lack of emotional balance. It shows a lack of awareness. People become instantly defensive.
Practice breath control for greater clarity and harmony. Your breath connects to your emotions. When you’re stressed, your sympathetic system ignites along with fight or flight. When you relax, you stimulate your parasympathetic system. You can put your parasympathetic system in charge. Breathing as though calm, even when anxious or excited is vital. The upshot will be you’ll turn your emotions around. You become and more balanced.
Take two quick breaths through your nose and exhaling slowly via your mouth. Experts call this breathing physiological sighing. The second brief inhalation helps alveoli, tiny lung air sacs, pop open. You take in more oxygen and expel more carbon dioxide when breathing this way. The long exhale triggers a relaxation response to ramp up calmness. Repeat the exercise several times when you note excitement or stress rise. Mindfulness is key here. There is no better way to be mindful than to focus on your breath.
Welcome change
While routines aid a sense of security, following the same old regimen also makes people struggle to accept change. They become rigid. You might avoid opportunities to improve life. Challenges will be hard to handle if you are inflexible.
Do something new and get out of your comfort zone each week. Take a different route to work, eat a new dish, or try a novel hobby. Enforce change in small ways now. You will soon get used to it. Challenges won’t upset you as much when they arise from the blue, and you’ll cope better.
Look at ways to improve your life, too. You could learn a new language or add to your professional skills. The more you get used to managing changes, the easier you’ll find accepting unexpected challenges.
Balance your lifestyle
Emotional balance and lifestyle balance correlate. If the energy you give to your relationships, career, and social life differs dramatically, your mental health can suffer. Imbalances in these areas create stress. For instance, if you plow all your time and effort into work, your relationship health might plummet, and you will experience pressure to change. Your emotional harmony is bound to dip if your partnership or friendships suffer from a lack of attention.
Likewise, partying late at night too often could spoil your performance at work and cause energy, health, and mood disturbance because of tiredness. Changing your habits and lifestyle can be challenging, but it will help you balance your emotions.
Carry out a mindful practice
The principles of mindfulness include living in the present, patience, and non-judgment. Practicing boosts self-awareness and helps people manage their emotions. As they learn to accept themselves and stay present, they also discover how to cope with events that, otherwise, would have caused emotional upheaval.
You can do anything from eating to walking mindfully. During the latter, focus on the movements of your body and what happens in your surroundings. When unrelated thoughts arise, move your attention back to the moment. Concentrate on the temperature, for instance, and your weight as it shifts from one leg to the other.
Accept yourself
Well-balanced people are content in their skin. If they find themselves unsatisfied, they change their mindset or, when possible, practical circumstances. There’s little point in being upset because you’re unfit, or bored. You can fix such issues.
Accept unchangeable aspects of yourself and alter problems you want to be different. Reconsider things about yourself you dislike, too. Maybe you need to increase self-compassion and see yourself as a stranger who doesn’t recognize your self-perceived flaws. Practice self-acceptance and use your energy for happiness rather than self-loathing.
Greater emotional balance can increase your enjoyment of life, reduce stress, and help your relationships. Creating more harmony in your life takes effort and self-awareness, but it is worthwhile.
Seek Help For Emotional Balance
At High Expectations Counseling we have a talented team of therapist ready to help you find emotional balance. Meet the team and find the right therapist that fits your personality. We take several different and unique approaches to helping our clients. Call us today at 407-967-1327.
