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4.31..2 EMOTIONAL BALANCE
A person is feeling balanced, when their energy is equally devided
between thinking, feeling and behaviour.
When something happens however,
personality do not respond with the
{fight}, fear {flight}, sadness {healing}
instantly, whilst it takes an average
thoughts to manifest themselves.

these three segments of our
same speed. Emotions (anger
or joy {celebrate}) surge almost
of seven seconds for rational

We can experience a whirlwind of emotions ranging from thrilling to
devastating, and if we’re not prepared to deal with them, they can lead
us to do some very irrational things.
If you’ve ever heard the saying, “I was so mad I couldn’t think straight,”
you have an idea of the importance of emotional balance. We tend to
think less clearly and thoroughly when we are highly emotional.
Any emotional extreme can lead us to make hasty decisions we might
later regret. Even when emotions are positive our behavior can be
erratic and unpredictable. We want to learn how to balance our state of
mind to most effectively deal with others and certain situations that
trigger us.
Without emotional balance we are like a pendulum hanging and
swinging back and forth, not able to find a sturdy or fixed position with
which to make decisions.
A good starting place to achieving emotional balance is learning what
triggers our emotions in the first place, and then finding ways to deal
with these emotional swings that may occur.

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