Every person goes through a crisis in their lives which can have a significant toll on their emotions.
The main thing is not to lose yourself in any crisis and accept your situation. In this case, you’d either have the solution to your problem or accept what happened and move on.
What are some beneficial ways to help yourself during an emotional crisis? Let’s have a look.
When you’re having an emotional breakdown or meltdown, you need to follow the four ways to help yourself out of that situation.
The first is to rinse your face with cold water or move an ice cube on your face to cool down your temperature. This would help you cool down not physically but mentally as well.
The second thing you need to do is, do intense and fierce exercise which matches your extreme emotions. So if you’re upset, your mind would divert from being upset to exhaust. But be careful not to indulge in intense harmful activities that can be regretted later.
The third thing is to control your breathing. You can have control over your body and emotions if you learn to control your breathing. It would help if you immediately started breathing exercises to calm down your nerves and the flight and fight mode.
The fourth thing is to tighten your voluntary muscle and then relax it. This way, your muscles would relax more and give you a feeling of steadiness as relaxed muscles acquire less oxygen, so your heart rate and breathing would go back to normal.
The above four steps would help you make wise decisions and cope with the emotional crisis better, calm, and collected.
When you’re experiencing negative emotions coming off through some crisis, you need to follow specific steps to keep yourself away from harm.
Get yourself busy in healthy activities that would keep your mind off of negative emotions.
Go towards kindness and do something good and kind for someone to make them feel good; in response, you will also feel better and brighten.
Start comparing your life in a healthy way to when you had experienced more hardships and still got through it, or remember someone who had something terrible happen to them but still got through it; this would help you see your current situation from a different perspective.
Summon the opposite emotion of what you’re feeling. Suppose you’re feeling sad, watch a comedy movie or a funny video to change your mood. Similarly, if you have too much anxiety, try doing meditation to relax.
Another useful thing to do during an emotional crisis is to find meaning in that situation. You need to ask yourself, what am I learning from this experience? Look for a reason and inform yourself not to repeat the same mistakes which led you to the current difficult situations.
Which things help you deal with emotional crises? Share your positive experiences with us in the comments so other people can benefit as well.
Until Next Time,
Team Doctor ASKY!