How to Master Your Emotions Perfectly

There’s nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so 
– William Shakespeare


The ability to master our emotions isn’t beyond our reach. As a matter of fact, we’re doing so all the time through a specific thought process that we run in our minds—this happens whether it’s a positive emotion or a negative emotion.
However, it just that we’re not aware of it when we’re running the process because it has become an ingrained pattern in our brains. Hence, we’re going to see how to master our emotions in this article.

How Emotions Are Created
Emotions aren’t necessarily created by experiences in our external environment. Instead, they’re created by how we think about or interpret what happens to us.
What really happens is that the feelings we get from our external environment aren't really feelings but just thoughts; they're not emotions. Emotions come from mental interpretation of what happens to us. This interpretation is what determines how we feel. That's what decides our emotions.
If something negative happens, the prerogative is on you to decide how you're going to feel about that event. It's not necessarily a negative or positive event; per se, it's just an event that occurred. It's how we interpret that event that then determines how we see it—positive or negative.


The Thought Filter
Not everyone gets depressed by some negative event, yes, these events might momentarily trigger your emotions negatively, but the filter is still there to decide how you're going to ultimately feel about it. The filter can otherwise be called thought filter, and if you've got optimistic, hopeful thoughts you're ultimately going to feel better.
It's a choice you can make to feel negative about a negative event through the thoughts you think about what happens. Thoughts are what create emotions.
You can't control what happens around you, but you can control your thoughts and consequently your reaction to what happens around you.
Action point: Take 100% responsibility for your emotions, especially your negative ones.