Emotions in the Work Place

Emotions in the Workplace

Dealing with emotions in the office can be a little tricky. You don't want to be branded as the person who freaks out or cries at the drop of the hat, or who uses emotions to manipulate people and get what you want. Fear of being labeled as an emotional basket case prompts many to practice, "emotional suppression." But pretending to be a robot and bottling your emotions can cloud thinking, promote job unhappiness and negatively impact work performance. If you are wondering what emotions are defined as feelings that are often intense, last for a short time, and are clearly directed at and caused by someone or some kind of circumstance.

With all these emotions, most people don't think they have anything to do with how they are feeling. They believe their emotions are a result of an external cause, examples. The circumstances or situations of their lives or the behavior of others. It looks that way because that's how you have been taught to think about emotions. It just isn't true. The goal is not to never have any negative emotions though. That's not possible. The goal is to process them faster and get through them quicker. That is realistic, but how?

First, recognize you've got something to do with it. Consider emotions as energy in motion. That's what it feels like doesn't it, an energy moving through your body? The root word is "emote", which implies the direction the energy is moving - out. Emotions are an attempt to express outwardly, to express what we believe. (U.S. Magazine)

If your belief is unconscious then you act on automatic pilot. If conscious, then you have some choice. In either case, how you feel is a reflection of how you think. Your negative thoughts produce negative emotions. Your positive thoughts produce positive emotions.

So, emotion is not something that happens to you. Emotion is actually something you are doing. If you experience an emotion then you've got something to do with it. Be curious about thoughts that precede emotion.

Understand laws exist about emotions just like there are laws about physics. As crazy as it sounds, every emotion you have is a result of some thought that preceded your emotion. The only exception to this rule is if you have some chemical or neurological damage that throws everything out of whack. But if you have a healthy body