Steem4nigeria Accelerator Contest Week 35: Dealing with Emotions by @rossnenye

Greetings to the amazing people of this Community. What doesn't kill us makes us strong. As human, we must experience ups and downs, and that is what makes us strong. I myself haven't had it all rosy, I have also had my own share of life issues but we keep striving.

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🔹What is your understanding of emotions?

Emotions can be defined as a strong overwhelming feeling that most times we don't have control over it.

What can cause Emotions

Several things can cause emotions, some of them includes

• Incident
  Some incidents can happen to a person to trigger emotions, such as death of a loved one, issues in school, family and business failure.

• People
  People around us can equally trigger our emotions at some point.

🔹Have you ever had emotions that made you lose yourself? tell us about it.

Yes, gaining admission into the University in the year 2018 I thought life in school was sweet and interesting. I read very well and prepared for my first semester exams like every other student, but guess what when the exam results for that semester was released, i didn't pass the way I wanted. I was angry and for a while I cried about the result. I was disappointed because I worked very hard and I knew some of my classmates that don't attend lectures that passed very well.

🔹Explain 5 ways to deal with emotions.

• Acknowledge and understand your emotions
  The first way of dealing with emotions is acknowledging and understanding what leads to the emotions.

• Seek for help
  In some cases, people find it very hard to control their emotions, talk to someone you trust or a therapist.

• Forgiveness
  If the emotions arises from hurt, try to forgive the offender because it will help in your healing process.

• Prayer
  Prayer is another great remedy because he who lives in heaven has the perfect solution to all our problems.

• Develop healing mechanism
  So many people have several things that helps them to heal, it could be staying with family, friends, traveling, sight seeing, nature or creativity. Which ever it is, do the one that works for you.

🔹Do you think emotions could hinder someone from achieving their dreams?

Yes emotion could hinder someone from achieving their dreams, I use to have a classmate back then, he dropped out from school after he lost his father. He was very close to his father to the extent that he couldn't cope in school after his death coupled with financial challenges so he dropped out from school.

Thanks for reading through my post, I invite @adachukwu, @chiomi and @woka-happiness to participate in this contest.