How many of you feel emotionally out of control? What if I told you your emotions don’t care about you? That’s right, your emotions don’t care about you and they can betray you and don’t have your best interest in mind. Emotions are in place just to give us information about our environment; however, that information can sometimes be misleading how many times have you worried all night, missed out on sleep, and felt  anxious just to find out that nothing’s wrong, everything’s OK. Or how many times have you been completely angry like so angry that you feel like steam is coming out of your ears and then you figure out “you know what I’m angry for no reason”. Or what about jealousy or sadness. Think about how emotions can sometimes give us the wrong information. There are some things that you can do to make sure you keep those emotions in check. First, use your emotions for their intended purpose which is to provide you with data about the environment–pieces of information to help you make good decisions. Now if it was any other thing, you would want to make sure that it was reliable and accurate right? If your thermometer gave a false reading and said it was hotter than it was, you would make an adjustment. Same thing with your emotions. If you’re super angry you want to make an adjustment and ask yourself, “what’s the evidence, should I be this angry, why am I this angry, what’s happening” and then make the adjustment. Emotions can be like the waves in the sea, they come and they go. Sometimes the waves are like a tidal wave and sometimes they’re gentle. It’s up to you to determine if your emotion is right for the situation. Remember your emotions don’t care about you. YOU should be in control of your emotions.