Emotional Balance
Emotional balance isn’t about being happy all the time, that’s ALMOST impossible. However It is about being able to experience feelings without them taking over your behaviour, decisions, or energy for the rest of the day.
Most emotional overwhelm doesn’t come from the size of a situation, in fact it’s often lots of little things, sound familiar?
What you need to know
Emotions are your brain’s fast-response system, we’ve all felt triggers at times. Whether that be a situation, a conversation or quite frankly just someone’s attitude.
​Getting to a place of emotional balance isn’t always the easiest feat, especially if you’re stuck in a cycle of overwhelm or carry trauma responses. ​
Reaching a point of emotional balance and regulation is a long road, but you recognising that you’re stuck in overwhelm and your reactions are reflecting that, is the first change you can make.
Why are you overwhelmed
You’re getting overwhelmed because you’re not getting (or giving yourself) any time to process emotional changes. Although blaming social media seems like a cop-out, you can now race through several emotion triggers before even getting out of bed.
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The beauty of emotional overwhelm is that you don’t need to understand all of your emotions as much as recognise them.
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Your emotions are basically a pick me girl or a toddler, once it feels seen, it stops causing a scene.
3 Things You Can Do Today
Recognise your emotions
Today, when you feel something, anything at all. Pause for a hot sec, and just note your emotion and what triggered it. Leave it there, don’t dwell on it, don’t ChatGPT it, just a simple “his face made me feel angry” and on with your day.
Don’t overwhelm yourself
If you’re prone to getting overwhelmed, you probably have a to do list as long as your arm. Prioritise your day, start with the things that are giving you extra emotions (anxiety, we’re looking at you). Avoiding “the things” will only keep you in a heightened state of emotion.
Drink Water
Here’s that thing again but we can’t slam it home enough. Even losing 1-2% water from your brain can triggers irritability, anxiety, tension, and fatigue. So if you’re already feeling wound-up, being dehydrated is going to make it 10x worse. So there you go, drink your water.