[Coach Tom’s Commentary] How can self-mastery help one battle life’s stresses? The management of one’s desires and impulses can kick in only if the brain is not hijacked by the stressor. There is a place for coping mechanism and there are means where one can train the mind to formulate a response instead of reacting instinctively. Building new neural pathways requires a deliberate training regime.
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When you are down and out are not feeling too good about things that are happen to you or what is happen around you. You do not know what to do or how to act any more. When you feel sad often and unhappy, it is often because you dwell on negative things in life, when you should be thinking about the positive things that are in your life. Although this is not going to be something that can be over night for your going to have to work on it this can be done. This is when self-mastering skill come in to play. Your thinking how or what does self-mastering skills have to do with feel better about yourself.
What are self-mastering skills? These are skills that you use every day and just do not know we are using them or that we do not know how to use them so hopefully by the time you are done reading this is you will know and understand more about self-mastering skill and how they work in your everyday life. Self-mastery skills and abilities is one’s strength that helps them to take control of their behaviours, mental processes, and emotional reactions. Self-mastery is a human strength then that empowers you to reach for a better tomorrow.
When you get mad what do you do blow up right most of us do, this is some the norm for most of us. When we want to use your self-mastering skills, we are going to try to find ways to stay calm, so if this means that we have to count to ten front wards and backwards then this is what we are going to have to do. For some reason you find that this is not going to work for you then you might want to try to find something else that will work for you. There are many things that you can do to stay calm all your going to have to do is to figure it out. This may mean that you are going to have to dig deep with thin your self to try to get the right method that is going to work for you.
Different methods work different ways on people what may work for may not work for others. This is when you are going to have to be able to sit down and find all the ways there is to be able to find the right method that is going to work for you. Sometimes you have to step back and remember that you are going to overcome the problems. Sometimes you have to take it one day at a time and set goals. By setting goals, you will have something to reach for in your life. Then you make another goal and so on.
To do this you might have to have some time to yourself to be able to figure this out. When you decided this is something that you want to do then you may want to go and pick a nice quite place where you are able to think. You not going to be able to figure out the best way for you to start to work on your self-mastering skills if you are not able to sit down and send some time with yourself this is what learn self-mastering skills is all about.
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