Part One: Evaluating
1. Recognize your feelings.
Sit down and decide what exactly is bothering you and why it is bothering you. Different societies respond to highly sensitive people differently. In many places, highly sensitive people are often commonly misunderstood as weak, and quite often bullied. But this is not true throughout the world. In many places, highly sensitive people are considered gifted, as such sensitivity allows a great ability to perceive and therefore understand others. What is just a character trait can be regarded quite differently depending on the culture you are in. Then you decide what type of person you are yourself, without judging.
2. Note your emotions.
By doing this you can write down everything you are feeling and pave the way to possibly helping yourself track patterns, triggers, etc. You can also look at it in a way that you can teach yourself a lesson, if you write about an event of you thinking someone is talking about you or critizcing you. You can flip it around and teach yourself to realize that you don't know what they are really thinking and peoples opinions really don't matter. Just be yourself.
3. Identify your triggers.
You may or may not know what they are, your brain will develop a pattern and over time it will become a habit and you will automatically act a certain way to a situation. You can retrain your brain to form new habits. The next time something happens that causes you to panic, or to become angry just stop and assess the situation and just take note.
4. Allow yourself to feel the emotions.
Don't try to stop feeling your bad emotions. We as humans are supposed to feel them as much as we are supposed to feel happiness, but allow yourself balance. Don't feel one more than the other throughout the day.
5. Don't jump to conclusions
When you jump to conclusions you stick to one scenario that majority of the time isn't even true. You begin to make up all of these things in your head which makes you even more angry and upset all because of one little thing.
Part Two: Taking Action
6. Wait to act.
Emotions can get in the way of how people react in situations. Most of the time you often regret what you say while you are in that state. So you are better off waiting til you are cooled down, then responding to the situation.
7. Seeking professional help.
Sometimes no matter how hard you try you just become overwhelmed by your emotions, getting help from a counselor or a licensed professional can help to show you ways of overcoming obstacles and show you ways to cope with many things.
8. Approach others with a different mindset.
If in the past you avoided things because of the way you were feeling, go out there and rekindle relationships or start new ones. Start fresh just like you did with yourself. Instead of assuming people are judging you, just assume the best of people and go out there and get to know them.
9. Learn to speak up.
Don't let people use you as a doormat. Learn assertive communication, don't be afraid to say no. Communicate your needs and feelings to other people.
10. Be patient.
Emotional changes come in time, mistakes will be made. You will fall down seven times, just to get up eight. Life is there just to challenge you.
These are some little tips to help you over come your emotions and help you to just overall live a more stress-free life.
