Twenty sentences that will give you more emotional control than 95% of people

I always used to think emotional control meant gritting teeth and trying to bottle in my rage.

Then, I wondered why I felt so out of control.

Over the years, I learned emotional control isn’t about ‘control’ at all.

It’s about habits of thinking. How you think influences how you feel and how ‘in control’ you are.

Emotionally mature people understand these things:

You don’t need ‘fixing’ — you need to chill the fuck out.

Chilling out means letting go of the perceived seriousness offered by your thoughts.

When we buy into our thoughts, we literally become our thoughts because thoughts define our reality.

You can end your life or someone else’s in a split second if you don’t nurture emotional control.

Those who remain calm when others lose their heads do not allow their thoughts to consume them.

People who stay remarkably calm no longer take things so seriously.

Life is not serious, but we can make it so in the wild theatres of our dumb monkey minds.