Meditation is a wonderful aid to calm the waters during or after an emotional storm, but other things can also be done, including meditative-like techniques, that focus us. If we take these steps to calm and clarify ourselves, we also take better advantage of meditation. We can provoke another positive reaction in us.

Obviously, one of the first steps in clarifying ourselves is to recognize what we really feel, all that we feel. Our feelings can be contradictory and that kind of thing is confusing. When we are confused, we tend to become unstable. We are perfectly capable of feeling several things at once. For example, we may feel anger, love, pain, and compassion for a person at the same time. In order to deal with emotions, the first thing we must do is distinguish those feelings and understand and be aware of the conflicts and confusions we have.

Emotions basically have two origins: Our current situation, often tinged by experience, and the experience we relive, our habitual emotional responses to life. It is difficult to change an emotional habit. The habit of getting angry or feeling fearful, for example, is like a drug addiction. Both emotions produce a release of adrenaline in the body, and we can get hung up on the feeling of excitement and vitality it conveys. It's like being addicted to caffeine, only in this case we don't even have to admit that we have an addiction. Addictions are aggressive habits. However, if we really set our minds to it, we can change any habit. It just takes persistence, persistence, and more persistence.

Changing an emotional habit that is off-center is like trying to balance on a rock, compared to treating the emotions in a situation that is unfolding at that moment, when the external pressure is still active, is like wanting to balance on a surfboard on the crest of an immense wave. You can, but there is a trick to it. It can help us a lot to practice, practice and practice techniques to focus and settle down until we master them enough to be able to do them in very stressful situations.

Obviously, if we have serious or long-lasting problems, it is very good to have the support of a trained and experienced person, such as a professional counselor or therapist. In addition to the help we receive from others, there are meditation techniques to help us focus and settle down emotionally. One of them is, once again, working the breath.

Breathing involves an interesting psychological mechanism. Abdominal breathing is relaxing, it is very difficult to maintain a state of anxiety when the breath reaches the diaphragm. When we feel euphoria or anxiety, we tend to inhale in the upper chest, and that can become a habit if we are stressed for a while.

Keep in mind that breathing only in the upper chest is not only a result of anxiety, but also induces anxiety. Thus, the habit of breathing with the upper chest plunges us into a state of continuous anxiety, and pushes us to look for things to be anxious about. There is a Chinese proverb that says that the man who wants to beat a dog always finds a stick. We can always find a hook to hang our sorrows on.

On the other hand, breathing in the lower abdomen relaxes, makes you sleepy and induces serenity.

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