Control Your Emotions

These self-destructive habits may include the following:

then the physical reactions, and then the psychological reaction—the emotion—that comes after.

First you have the stimuli

According to her, emotions are a result of changes in the brain, where neurochemicals such as dopamine, noradrenaline, and serotonin increase or lower the brain’s activity level according to what is more beneficial in the circumstances.

Psychologist Linda Davidoff

Emotions, in the most general definition, are a neural impulse that moves you to act. They are something the brain commands to achieve a better existence, one that has evolved over time to help us survive and meet certain needs

you often have more emotions than reactions, and many biological responses are too similar to differentiate.

The second explanation of the nature of emotions is that they are purely an interpretation of the body’s signals.

Psychologists William James and Carl Lange proposed that emotions are just the perceptions of change in the physiology of your body—for example, changes in heart rate, breathing, perspiration, and hormone levels. This theory argues that emotions such as happiness are merely a physiological perception instead of a judgment as the previous theory states. Other emotions like sadness and anger are also mental reactions to different kinds of biological functions

Happiness is felt because it is an evaluation that your expectations are being met or even exceeded. If you win the lottery, you feel happiness because it solves your financial needs and likely exceeds your expectations. If you’re asked out on a date, you feel happiness because it holds the promise of satisfying your romantic needs. In the same way, when you feel sadness, it is an evaluation that your goals are not being met or fall below expectations, and anger might be the feeling that is aimed at whatever is blocking your goals.

This theory states that emotions are judgments about the extent that a current situation meets your expectations and goals, no matter how you define them