Emotion Overload: Is Your Intensity Derailing Your Consistency?
Part of the '3 I's for Consistent Action: Identify, Insight, Implement' Series
Struggling with Emotional Intensity
Have you ever felt like your emotions are a rollercoaster, throwing you off track just when you need to stay focused?
Emotional intensity can be both a gift and a curse, especially when maintaining consistency in our work.
Identify: Understanding the Impact on Consistency
As a highly sensitive and neurodivergent individual, my strong emotions often lead to cycles of paralysis and disrupted momentum.
These feelings can settle deeply within me, trapping me in a loop of inaction.
Environmental or social interactions and recalling strong memories can evoke intense reactions, immobilizing me and hindering my productivity.
When my emotions take over, they can lead to missed deadlines, unfinished projects, and a persistent sense of frustration and inadequacy.
Insight: Understanding Your Unique Cycle
Track Your Emotional Patterns
Use a 30-day cycle tracker to identify your unique emotional patterns.
Pay attention to environmental, psychological, physical, and social triggers that impact your mood.
- Monthly Patterns: Do these triggers occur regularly each month? For example, you might notice mood changes aligned with the moon cycle.
- Weekly Sensitivity: When do you feel hypersensitive, energetic, or confident in certain weeks?
- Situational Triggers: Identify if specific situations or events consistently affect your emotions.
You will gain valuable insights into finding solutions by keeping a detailed record.
This can also assist you when seeking medical or professional advice or researching techniques and practices that have helped others in similar situations.
I've found that incorporating mindfulness practices and self-regulation techniques can help manage emotional intensity.
Implement: Practicing Mindfulness Techniques
If you don’t know what it feels like to be mindful, consider what you did to track your emotional patterns above.
Chances are an abrupt change in your mood or emotions prompted you to be still in the moment and then reflect.
Simply put, you’re becoming consciously aware of where you’re at, what you’re doing, and how you’re reacting.
The more you do that, the easier it becomes to extend the awareness period without thinking about it.
Start small while doing everyday tasks if you’re struggling to sit in a mindful practice.
The sensations you experience of being centered and aligned can help guide you when taking time out for extended practice.
Small actions are easier to sustain until they become a habit.
Smoothing Out the Ride
Next time you find yourself on an emotional rollercoaster ride you want to get off, try creating a personalized management technique to smooth out the bumpy ride.
It will take trial and error until you find something that works, but you may as well take the time to take in the view from your seat until you feel more in control.
Take a moment today
Reflect on your emotional patterns and consider how mindfulness practices might help you achieve greater consistency in your creative endeavors.
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With so much happening in our lives, applying simple acts can help us go a long way toward success.
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I’ll see you next time,
- Mili