Let's talk taking control of your emotions.

Hey Spartans, it's Dr. L. here, your chief mind doc with Spartan Mind, part of the Spartan Up Podcast family.

So I'm here every Wednesday helping you identify what are the things that are getting you stuck

up here in your mind and helping you get unstuck.

Today we're talking about controlling your emotions.

Now, this is sort of an obvious topic, right, in terms of why it's important to get control

of your motions, but just in case you're wondering,

it's helpful to control your emotions

so that your response is congruent

with what's happening. Sometimes emotions like anger, anxiety,

panic, discouragement, sadness can become inflated, right?

Especially if we're not particularly good at controlling our emotions.

And so I'm going to take you through a step by step process of one of the ways that you can learn to control your emotions better.

Because when our emotions are out of control, we make decisions and choices that actually may not be very good for us or another individual, right?

So if my emotions are out of control and all of a sudden my kiddos

spills milk on the ground and I go from like a little angry to like massively angry

then the way that I respond to my child may not be helpful at all right and I may

say something that I regret and makes them feel really bad.

And imagine this on the race course, right?

So let's say you're a little bit nervous about your performance,

but then all of a sudden panic ensues and you begin. about your

performance performance,

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